Bro, Maximum Carnage was in late 1993. Heroes Return was in early 1998. From 1994-1997 Spider-Man, Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Man Unlimited, Spectacular Spider-Man and Web of Spider-Man (replaced with Sensational Spider-Man) were all terrible. That's five titles at a time dealing with the Peter's parents, Clone Saga and Gathering of Five arcs which were all pretty bad. After four years of garbage, you start getting nostalgic.