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.
If you’ve visited the site over the last few days you’ve seen some new articles and authors on the front page. We have signed up several new authors to look at Spider-Man’s 50 + year […]
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 […]
When Len Wein passed away recently, there was some discussion about his role as one of the giants of the bronze age of comics, especially his part in cocreating the international X-Men (including Wolverine in […]
In the last column, I covered the golden, silver and bronze ages of comics. For a while, the consensus among professionals and critics was that the next age of comics was the modern age. However, […]
For some time, American comics has been divided into four distinct eras: the Golden Age, the Silver Age, the Bronze Age, and the Modern Age. The Spider-Man comics figure into this in some big ways. […]
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