So I am hitting the mid 70s, and man, the writing is definitly dropping in quality. Some of the books I previously started liking are sliding in quality, and a lot of these new titles poping up are just bad.

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The question really is if you like Steve Englehart or not since he seems to be writing pretty much every title at the point where you and I are. I like his style, but I can see how it might not be for everyone.

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hi from Norway (so to explain my poor spelling)

I have "just" started reading the order, and i wanted to say: GOOD JOB!!! the site is excelent!

when i found out that i wanted to start rereading marvel i looked for a good reading list.. but everywhere it was sooo confusing, but this list is just the BEST!!

Generally, I don't really like his writing much. The stories are getting generally dumber as I am going. Not all the titles. Werewolf by Night has a good issue here or there, Spider-Man is still ok, but damn, Iron Man is just terrible and so is Tomb of Dracula.

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Glad to have you here Poj.

Look forward to have you give us your point of view on the comics as you go.

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I'm not too far off from where you are. I'm really not digging all the horror comics. I just read the death of gwen stacey, it felt a little underwhelming.

Yea, its history has been so built up so its hard to live up to that history. I liked the turn they put peter through post her death however.

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It's one of those things where if you know it's coming, it's not going to have the kind of impact as it might otherwise. I try to imagine what it might have been like for fans at the time. There is a great letter a few issues later that's worth reading (I can't remember which issue but I (for some odd reason) remember the writer was from Gainsville.

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It did really come out of no where. I was surprised by how fast it happened with little fanfare. I thought perhaps it wasn't really her death at first, but some other she seemed to die but didn't storyline.

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hmm im getting somewhat woried about you guys talking about the mid 70s :P im still in the mid 60s, and there are some REALY bad storys here.. (mostly giantman and DD (just read #2 and i think that must be one of the worst comic i have read so far). so if it gets worse then this...