One of the things I’ve come to appreciate as someone who has followed online discussions about the Spider-Man comics (and plenty of other stuff) for over a decade is how ephmereal the information can be. Things […]
The twenty Academy Award nominated actors announced last week include the leads of the Marc Webb Amazing Spider-Man series of films: Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. That can serve as a consolation for the embarrassing way […]
Ross Andru has developed the unique and contradictory reputation of being considered the most underrated Spider-Man artist. He didn’t make comicbook.com’s top five list, although that might be because he’s the type who would place […]
Right now, there’s a lot of speculation of what storylines Dan Slott is building on for the Clone Conspiracy and the upcoming showdown with Norman Osborn. It seems an appropriate time to consider Spider-Man stories […]
The Shocker is expected to make his film debut in Spider-Man: Homecoming, played by recent Emmy nominee Bokeem Woodbine. This will likely significantly raise the profile of the villain, even if Michael Keaton’s Vulture is […]
The Hollywood Reporter did a list of the Top 100 superhero comics. In a departure from a recent list of great comic books, Spider-Man was well-covered, with two runs making it to the top ten. There’s […]
It’s hard to come up with any comic book run where the covers are as consistently amazing as John Romita Sr’s Amazing Spider-Man. Maybe Frank Miller’s Daredevil, although that was much briefer. We’ll start with one of […]
Recently, I bought a special produced by the British publisher responsible for the magazines Total Film and SFX on The 100 Greatest Graphic Novels Of All Time. The title was a slight misnomer, as it’s a bit […]
With the upcoming Venom relaunch introducing a new host for the symbiote, and an upcoming Deadpool mini-series revealing that Deadpool hosted the symbiote before Eddie Brock, it’s worth looking at the symbiote’s best-known host. One of the […]
The biggest news story of the year is the presidential election, and several recent Spider-Man comics have poked fun at modern politics, so it seems appropriate to consider how the institution has been depicted in […]
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