Spider-girl always was written by Tom DeFalco in a more classic Marvel style where you can jump on at any time; all you need to know is that is set roughly "15 years from where the Marvel Universe was at the time you're reading it." Wisely, Tom made the book "in the present" not the future, (ex. with flying cars) so kind of the sliding Marvel timeline, you could say that Spider-girl's stories happened in its publishing date, and the clone saga/birth of May happened in the 1990s or 15 years before.
Really enjoyed those Spider-Girl stories. Mayday feels to me like the closest to the original ASM stories, just updated a bit for the times. The art is still a little too 90s caricature for my old tastes, but it’s one of the few series with that art style where I just got past the art because the stories were good. Also, I think Olliffe’s art improved a little (less caricaturish) as the series went on.
UK annuals are typically hardcovers, magazine or European album sized trim and come out towards the end of the year with the following year's date for the Christmas market. I had that Ewoks annual and I'm certain there was sequential material included but it will be reprints of the Star Comics material so no need to print it twice in an already fat Epic. If there were any changes it will only have been a "continued on page whatever" box where they split an issue for a text story or puzzles in-between halves. Sometimes you got original comics, Transformers had new comic and text stories in the annuals for several years before they started going with only new text stories with comics reprinted from the UK comic in the last few years, albeit with new colours on previously black and white stories in one instance.
Kurtis I need to ask you about those For Better or For Worse volumes, those look amazing that was always one of my favorite series. I only have the little annual collections they did, is the whole series available in the format you have?
Hi Kurtis! A quick question please. I've just seen that the crossover "Days of Future Present" (FF Annual #23; New Mutants Annual #6, X-Factor Annual #5 and X-Men Annual #14) is included in it's entirety in FF Epic Collection "Into the Time Stream", this means it's not going to be included in the respective X-Men Epics? Thanks!
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Spider-girl always was written by Tom DeFalco in a more classic Marvel style where you can jump on at any time; all you need to know is that is set roughly "15 years from where the Marvel Universe was at the time you're reading it." Wisely, Tom made the book "in the present" not the future, (ex. with flying cars) so kind of the sliding Marvel timeline, you could say that Spider-girl's stories happened in its publishing date, and the clone saga/birth of May happened in the 1990s or 15 years before.
Really enjoyed those Spider-Girl stories. Mayday feels to me like the closest to the original ASM stories, just updated a bit for the times. The art is still a little too 90s caricature for my old tastes, but it’s one of the few series with that art style where I just got past the art because the stories were good. Also, I think Olliffe’s art improved a little (less caricaturish) as the series went on.
So disappointed I missed the stream but love your work kurtis.
Kurtis, you can catch onto what is happening in that "Spider-Girl" Epic fairly easily, but it does build off past material, as well.
Always enjoy your videos Kurtis. I am definitely running out of space for all these great collections coming out though.
UK annuals are typically hardcovers, magazine or European album sized trim and come out towards the end of the year with the following year's date for the Christmas market. I had that Ewoks annual and I'm certain there was sequential material included but it will be reprints of the Star Comics material so no need to print it twice in an already fat Epic. If there were any changes it will only have been a "continued on page whatever" box where they split an issue for a text story or puzzles in-between halves. Sometimes you got original comics, Transformers had new comic and text stories in the annuals for several years before they started going with only new text stories with comics reprinted from the UK comic in the last few years, albeit with new colours on previously black and white stories in one instance.
Kurtis I need to ask you about those For Better or For Worse volumes, those look amazing that was always one of my favorite series. I only have the little annual collections they did, is the whole series available in the format you have?
Hi Kurtis! A quick question please. I've just seen that the crossover "Days of Future Present" (FF Annual #23; New Mutants Annual #6, X-Factor Annual #5 and X-Men Annual #14) is included in it's entirety in FF Epic Collection "Into the Time Stream", this means it's not going to be included in the respective X-Men Epics? Thanks!
Aww I missed the stream. Anyways have a good day Kurtis!