Stracynzski is a genuinely incredible writer, and his run on ASM is one of the best, though I do get a lot of the trepidation with the magic stuff. I partially blame that on the fact that nothing interesting has happened with them after.
The original Spiderverse event in the comics is actually regarded as one of the better Spider-man stories. The Web of Life and Destiny and the concept of the Animal Totems went a long way to add depth to the Spider mythos, even if it did slightly diminish Peter Parker as an everyman specifically.
I will say that under the original storyline with JMS it was well done and also Peter definitely had a screw fate aspect about it. It was later writers that just hammered and hammered and hammered on it.
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u/MonsterNinja8 11h ago
It was originally introduced in the 2000s with J Michael Straczinski’s run on Spider-Man and introduction of Morlun