The Amazing Spider-Man: Full Circle

[laughing_tree]

The idea started life as a suggestion for what to do for Marvel Comics #1000, but clearly we went a different way. But I still thought it was a fun idea. What Amazing Spider-Man Full Circle is then is a Round Robin. Which is to say, the writers were assigned in random order and their goal was to tell a wild and outrageous Spider-Man story—with nothing planned beforehand. Nobody knew who would be writing when, nor even exactly who else was a part of the story. So the goal in each case was to pick up the cliffhanger that the last writer left and then carry the story forward. The final chapter was group-written by everybody. -- Tom Brevoort

We basically tried to sabotage each other. -- Nick Spencer

Comments

[janegray]

...I'm incredibly confused.

[beyondthefringe]

Yup, this was just bizarre, and I kind of feel like it wasted my time even more than most stories do. :)

[laughing_tree]

What's to be confused by? While teaming up with SHIELD to raid an AIM base, Spider-Man frees a prisoner who turns out to be his future self, who was turned into a pig by the High Evolutionary and fell into a delusion where he thought he was Kraven. Future-Spider had gone back in time to prevent some doomsday, but he fails and Punisher, merged with the Ultimate Nullifier, successfully ends life on Earth. Except present-Spider had been equipped with a time travel ability, wherein he would vomit insects that would send him back in time, that would activate in such an emergency, so it turns on and sends him back to the beginning of the story, where he this time decides *not* to release his future-self, because he realizes that trying to fix the past is a mug's game with no end.

And along the way, everyone gets turned into a werewolf by AIM, and it's discovered popular theme park Ferretland is a front for them.

See? Simple!

[lizard_of_aus]

Spike Milligan, eat your heart out.

[joetuss]

Am I high?

[zer0man]

Ah, so this is Marvel's answer to the Kamandi Challenge, only instead of it being spread out over 12 issues, it's just jammed into a single one.

Interesting premise, but the execution is... a bit of a mess. An enjoyable mess for some, but a mess nonetheless.

[palgrave_goldenrod]

Yeah, this is why I tend to avoid round-robin style stories. They almost always end up being more fun for the writers than for the reader.

[cainofdreaming]

Yeah. I've taken part of a couple of round-robins (just writing, not comics) but seeing one published? Whoa Keanu.