Reddit reviews Spider-Man: Spider-Island
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In your list, there're two things going on. Amazing Spider-Man and Ultimate Spider-Man. Ultimate Spider-Man is the one where Peter died, replaced by Miles Morales. If you want, you could go all the way back to Ultimate Spider-Man #1 with Peter, or you could start with Peter's Death / Miles' origins. This list covers everything and can point you in the right direction.
Spider-Island that you mentioned is in the main 616 universe. Dan Slott's run begins with the Big Time story, continues to the Return of Anti-Venom, leading up to the Spider-Island event, which had some tie-ins. The story continues with Flying Blind, soon there's Trouble on the Horizon, all the way to the Ends of the Earth until there's No Turning Back.
Alright buddy, here is the low down...
The current Venom series is by Rick Remender. So you want to start with Vol 1 which collects issues 1-5. The next set of issues (6 -9 ) are in Spider-Island. Issues 10 - 14 are in Circle of Four. The Savage Six just wrapped up and won't be available until the end of October. It collects 15-22. Also it is fantastic!
Now starting this Wednesday, Cullen Bunn will take over writing duties from Rick Remender with issue 23. So it is a perfect time to jump on board while you catch up with the previous issues.
If you want to get some Anti-Venom, he appears in Spider-Island. However, I would wait to read that until you read his origin in New Ways To Die. You can then get a solo adventure with him and The Punisher in Anti-Venom. Then right before reading Spider-Island check out his return
Hope this helps!
Well, if you want to go chronologically, the following list should help and get you up to date. The sad thing is that I'm sure more then a few of these are out of print. Anyways...
Spider-Man:Birth of Venom: A TPB with all the issues leading up to Venom's first appearance as well as his first couple showdowns with Spider-Man.
The Vengeance of Venom: A continuation of Venom's appearances in Spider-Man. Classic Venom fun. It also leads right into...
Spider-Man:Carnage: The first appearance of Carnage. Even for symbiote stories, this is a good one. As fun as they still are, this is Venom and Carnage at their purest, and it makes for great reading.
Amazing Spider-Man #374/375:Couldn't find the TPB for these, but it's a Venom milestone comic. I won't spoil anything, but it's good. Read it.
Venom Lethal Protector: Venom's first mini-series, and arguably the best. More or less a direct continuation of ASM #374/375.
Maximum Carnage: The return of Carnage, and Venom's there too. Nuff said.
After this there were a ton of Venom mini-series, some good, some kind of sucky. A few of the better one's are below. Carnage is in there too a little. It should be noted that while stuff happens in the other mini-series, there's nothing at the end of the day that really matters. Nothing important. This is all more or less in order btw.
Venom: Funeral Pyre
Venom: Separation Anxiety
Venom: Carnage Unleashed
Venom VS Carnage
After all this, we get back into Spider-Man. At this point, for reasons I won't spoil, Eddie gives up the suit and it goes somewhere else. It's a great read, and for way more then just Venom.
Spider-man
Theeen...I'm not quite sure for a bit. Stuff happens, but I haven't read it. Jump forward to Civil War however (if you don't know what that is, you will soon.) and we have Venom on a government sponsored team, the Thunderbolts. Full warning, this series does kind of kill Venom's character a little bit. The series itself however, is so freaking good. Seriously. It's all collected below.
Thunderbolts by Warren Ellis
Thunderbolts: Secret Invasion
Thunderbolts: Burning House
To continue, I'm going to have to spoil something. Turn back now if you don't want to know (you already have plenty of reading).
Venom becomes an Avenger. Kind of. It's all below.
Dark Avengers Vol 1
Dark Avengers Vol 2
Dark Avengers/X-Men: Utopia
Siege. This a an event book, that ties directly to the Dark Avengers.
Dark Avengers: Siege
This brings us up to the current series, which personally I think is one of the best things to happen to Venom in a very long time. Minor spoilers again to follow.
The government finally thinks to force apart Venom from it's host when he's incarcerated, and has the bright idea to use the symbiote as a super soldier. Who they pick is well, kind of brilliant. It's all collected below, and with a few small exceptions makes for great reading.
Venom Vol 1
Spider Island. An event that Venom ties in with directly.
Venom #9 isn't in any of the trades, but it's a great issue. Also has one of the coolest covers.
Venom: Circle of Four
Venom: The Savage Six
Venom: Devil's Pack
Meanwhile, Carnage has been having some fun of his own. In two totally awesome mini-series, both by the same creative team.
Carnage: Family Feud
Carnage USA
This all adds up in the Venom/Scarlet Spider crossover event Minimum Carnage. Not the best, but still fun stuff.
Minimum Carnage
Aaaand, back to Venom. There's Venom #28-30, but I can't find the trade for it anywhere. It's good fun, and def worth looking for.
Venom: Toxin with a Vengeance. This one gets a special mention on account of how great it is. Not only is it a great jumping on point, but it's one of the best arcs in the entire series. Seriously. It just came out in trades so it should be easy to find.
After that is just the current arc that's finishing up (the trade doesn't come out until January 7th )
There's also currently a Carnage series going on called Superior Carnage. Personally I like it, but it's getting mixed reception from people here at r/TVS.
Happy Reading.
EDIT: Totally forgot about Anti-Venom, although others seem to be on it.
Sure thing. A 'trade' is the nickname for a collection of single issues of a comic, put into a graphic novel type book binding. An example: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spider-Man-Graphic-Novels-Marvel-Paperback/dp/0785110712/ or http://www.amazon.co.uk/SPIDER-MAN-SPIDER-ISLAND-Spider-Man-Dan-Slott/dp/0785151044/
Trades come in either hardback or paperback format. You tend to get higher quality paper in the trades, unless you're buying an Image or IDW comic because they already use top grade paper in their single issues. Hardcovers are more expensive. Pretty much every graphic novel from the main American comic publishers was originally released as single issues in a mini-series and Spider-man: Blue was no exception, it's just that single issues are only printed once and are harder to find (and usually a slightly more expensive way of buying). Pretty much every ongoing comic book series is collected into trade at some point (generally if you 'trade wait' you end up getting the comics 6-months to a year later than the single issues).
Trade paperback is often abbreviated to TPB or TP.
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For Amazing Spider-Man, writer Dan Slott took over at Big Time, and I think he's done a tremendous job. Unfortunately, the volumes aren't numbered all that clearly, but you can look at the "Collecting Amazing Spider-Man #648-662" descriptions to see where they fit. To help you start, after Big Time comes this, then Spider-Island, then this, then this, then Ends of the Earth.
Ultimate Spider-Man is really easy to follow because the collected volumes are numbered. The first 10 or so volumes do a great job of trotting out all the classic villains. If you have the money, you could start with an Omnibus.
Later, it gets a bit tricky. After Ultimate Spider-Man #160, Peter Parker is replaced by a new Spider-Man named Miles Morales, and his series is called Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man
EDIT: I just saw the comixology bit, so here some of the Amazing Spider-Man links (in order):
http://www.comixology.com/Spider-Man-Big-Time/digital-comic/MAY110761
http://www.comixology.com/Spider-Man-Matters-of-Life-and-Death/digital-comic/SEP110666
http://www.comixology.com/Spider-Man-The-Fantastic-Spider-Man/digital-comic/DEC110736
http://www.comixology.com/Spider-Man-The-Return-of-Anti-Venom/digital-comic/JAN120753
http://www.comixology.com/Spider-Man-Spider-Island/digital-comic/JUL120656