11 Essential Storylines To Read If You Love Spider-Man

11. Reign

Spider-Man: Reign is a controversial story, to say the very least. However, sometimes controversy is important when exploring a beloved character's history.

Published under the Marvel Knights imprint, it was essentially Spider-Man's own version of The Dark Knight Returns. It follows an elderly Peter Parker in a dystopian future where New York is at the mercy of a brutal military police force called the Reign.

It's a brutally grim story that sees a decrepit Spider-Man having to battle his greatest enemies one last time, all while being haunted by the memory of Mary Jane Watson, his deceased wife.

It's also a very divisive story, with some praising its darker look at the character of Spider-Man, and others rejecting it and its more questionable elements. However, it's not a comic you should just take someone's word for, no matter what side of the fence they land on.

It's simply series you must experience for yourself and form your own opinion on. You may love it, you may hate it, but there's only one way to find out.