1999 was a tough year to be a Spider-Man fan. It wasn’t quite the bottom of the trough – that was still a year away, but 1999 was the warm up before the big game. […]

In 2000, popular comic/crime fiction writer Brian Michael Bendis scored what could be considered one of the most challenging, coveted writing jobs in the entire comics industry, and also one of the most potentially dangerous […]

The JMS Years – A Retrospective For a lead picture, I was originally going to go with the cover to Amazing Spider-Man #471 (June 2001), which was J. Michael Straczynski’s inaugural issue. However, the relentless […]

Yeah, yeah, yeah – you wanna make somethin’ of it? But then again, I suppose I owe you all something of an explanation for my nearly two year “absence” although it really hasn’t been a […]

Let us sit on the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings. On December 28, 2007, the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson came to an end. And there was […]

The original 2006 Year in Review was so mammoth – I cut it into two parts – the first focusing on Civil War, and the second on the rest of the year. Let’s start with the Civil […]

Being a redneck with pretty simplistic views on law and order (not the TV shows, but the concept, although I do like the TV shows), one of my favorite movie series was always the “Dirty […]

One step forward. Two steps back. Two big steps and down into a bloody hole – kind of like our friend in the picture. This article is the 7th in the series, dating back to […]

There’s a Chinese curse that says “May you live in interesting times.” Whatever you thought of the storylines that wound their ways through the various spider-titles in 2004, whatever you think of the men who penned […]

When I first wrote this article – it was notoriously late. I forget just how late. I’m thinking it didn’t even debut until 2005. All of the reasons why aren’t relevant, but I thought my […]