http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolink...2887-maxclonage

Yeah, it's worse than I remember.

I can't even watch it. They switched formats over to HD and unlike Youtube, I can't select a lesser quality, so I can never watch another AT4W again.

...he just went wide screen in the window.

Ironbite-that's just...yeah special.

Well I USED to be able to watch his videos without problems, and now I can't, so it's definitely more than just the window size that's changed.

And keep in mind, it's embedded in the page. So it's not its full capable size.

Have you tried going through thatguywiththeglasses.com?

Going through it? What?

Going to the site that hosts Linkara's video blog?

That's where I usually go. That's also what Vicious linked to.

They don't host the videos, though, those are on blip.tv.

I watched it just fine. Whats the problem?

Blip plays like crap on some systems (mine included). The fact is that other than YouTube, most flash video players are torture on a system that's even a few years old.

For TGWTG.com talent, I've gotten into the habit of using their RSS page to just download the video to my hard drive and watch it with a media player. Linkara's - http://linkara.blip.tv/rss

So, yeah...anyone want to talk about Maximum Cloneage, rather than the non-playing video?

I started reading the Spiderman comics when a skull wearing a tattered spiderman mask was found inside a smokestack.

I never got to read the actual clone saga, I'm probably thankful for that.

I liked it; I didn't think it was literary gold or anything, but thought if decently above the trash most considered it as.

I'm very surprised by the new Clone Saga story arc including it though. I thought for sure that would be one of the aspects of those comics that they'd overlook.

Marvel's going out of their way to acknowledge the Clone Saga these days. They even brought back Kaine.

I'm totally cool with Ben Reilly and Kaine.

It's the frickin' Jackal and Spidercide/Freakface that are so hugingly awful-bad in every aspect of the clone saga they are involved in.

Yes, and I love that. I just thought that they'd ignore Maximum Clonage, since everyone (but me) hated it.

While I loved the 90s Spider-man cartoon, I never really got into the books until I by chance encountered one of those big box-sets of reprints toysrus used to have that included an issue of The Osborn Journal. First off... Skroce's style is BEAUTIFUL. It pulled me in. And this whole issue is of course, a recap of the clone saga thus far to prepare us for the big final arc where Osborn returns and Ben gets written off. I actually never could find any issues from that arc, but after reading the Osborn Journal, I scoured comic shops for every back issue of the Clone Saga I could. I loved it, especially Kaine and Ben. VERY compelling characters. I actually found a complete Clone Saga torrent much later, but I've only gotten as far as the stupid plot where the Jackal unleashes mutants on Ben in the school gymnasium. Of course, I've read plenty of the issues beyond that point, but I can't say I cared much for the writing once it hit the month of Scarlet-Spider issues. It was all pretty bland from there. I did like Maximum Clonage though.

And I'm really enjoying this recent arc of ASM. It's currently the only book I've been eagerly anticipating the next installment of. Before Brand New Day, I really thought Spider-Man had become rather stale... and while I was immensely dreading the huge ass One More Day retcon, I honestly think it's done wonders for the title. Back on topic, it's nice to see that Marvel's finally acknowledging the Clone Saga in a not so disdainful tone, not to mention finally bringing back Kaine. I just hope they respect Ben's death in this thing's resolution. Bringing him back after what happened could only ruin the memory of the character. Speaking of which, did anyone else freaking facepalm when they heard about marvel bringing back Nate Grey in Dark X-men? Seriously... Warren Ellis' and Ariel Olivetti's arc on X-man was one of my favorites ever. Of course, marvel hasn't known what to do with mutants since HoM anyway, so shouldn't have been too much of a surprise.

Linkara was NEVER watchable guys

Wow...that's an interesting opinion.

Ironbite-what's the your opinion of Spoony then?

I find it amusing that, at the end of the review, during the credits, he has a list of the music clips he used. With a big 'Here, here's all the music I used, stop asking you morons' line underneath.

Yet he left out the bit of music he played when he was going bonkers, near the end there.

Say about Linkara what you want, but his themesong kicks more ass than those of all other internet critics combined.

There are elements of the clone saga I loved (the death of aunt May, the start where Reilly fights Venom and the poisoning of Parker) but I drop right off after the smoke and mirrors ark (where spidercide comes). The end of the trial was good.

I loved the introduction of Traveller and his host but is became very apparent they didn't have a use for him so he got relegated to sillier and sillier stunts (time fabric rips ETC) as a way to make him seem even more powerful.

Maximum clonage and Pete trying to kill Mary jane were both retarded.

When Reilly became spiderman it really picked up. However with the writers caught between getting rid of Parker and bringing him back the next month, Reilly was never really given a chance to showcase himself for a while. Plus his enemies were largely female versions of previous ones that were no where near as good (plus mysterio and his kinky get up).

Gaunt intrigued me as did what turned out to be an eventuall return of Norman Osbourne. However I never liked the way in which Ben was killed, it smacked of Jazz the meat puppet from transformers (or vice versa)


I started my spiderman reading literally at the beginning of the clone saga so I do have rose tinted memories of it. Some of it was epic, some of it should be destroyed forever.