This month, the other columnists and I are doing a bit of a crossover. With Spider-Geddon coming out and featuring a crossover between Spider-Men of different worlds, we’re tackling alternate realities. I’m starting with the […]
Recently, BD posted a response to a Newsarama article in which Dan Slott was rated as the third best Spider-Man writer under the title “Where Does Dan Slott Rank In Your Top Ten Spider-Man writers?” The […]
This is the story of a long-lasting comics feud between notable Spider-Man creators, which drew other professionals into its orbit. On a list of the top fifteen feuds in comics history, Peter David VS Erik Larsen […]
UPDATE: TWO DAYS LATER, THE SALE IS OVER! For whatever reason, Amazon has taken to selling digital copies of Marvel collections at ridiculously low prices during the occasional sales. There seems to be a new […]
This was a major story during the 2012 presidential election so it’s entirely possible that many of you have already heard this before. But it is an interesting episode in the lives of the professionals […]
In the last entry, I wrote about two conflicting views on Spider-Man: whether the appeal of the character is that he has grown, or whether it is that he is young. This ties to another argument […]
In his book Conflict of Visions, the economist Tom Sowell suggested that many political disagreements ultimately come down to a difference in worldview about whether the government can effectively dictate from the top-down, which he […]
Writing for the Spider-Man Crawlspace, Thomas Mets considers the stories that influenced Roger Stern, JM DeMatteis, Gerry Conway, JMS (J. Michael Straczysnki) and an entire generation of writers, as opposed to Bendis, Dan Slott, Mark Waid and Zdarsky.
Writing for the Spider-Man Crawlspace, Thomas Mets considers whether the costume was meant to be red and blue or red and black, linking an argument of John Byrne’s, and comparing the character to the Grey Hulk.
This is a revised version of an article I wrote to coincide with the Ultimate End mini-series. It seems appropriate to bring it back, now that Bendis is coming to another end, as his tenure […]
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