9 Comics You Should Be Reading Right Now

Many of the best Spider-Man comics either focus on the web-slinger's rivalry with Doctor Octopus or are written by Dan Slott, so consider this a double whammy.

Amazing Spider-Man is currently tangled up in Marvel's Secret Empire event and is building up to the Marvel Legacy refresh.

Beginning in issue #29, this Doc Ock-centric story (he's now known as the Superior Octopus, we should add) is one of the better Secret Empire tie-ins to date, largely because it focuses on the clash between these two comic book titans.

We've seen Spidey brawl with the tentacled doctor on countless occasions, so what makes this one stand out? Well, the Superior Spider-Man arc was a true game-changer for both characters, and the threads it wove are still very much visible.

There are subtle shreds of the heroic Otto Octavius which emerged towards the end of that event on display, buried beneath his hatred for Spider-Man.

It just goes to show how much mileage the dynamic between these two opposing forces still has, when the right creative team is at the helm.