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Let me pose a philosophical question for you: if Spider-Woman #3 was published and no one read it, would it make any difference on the larger narrative for “Spider-Verse?” Yes boys and girls, cranky Mark is back with another installment of “bemoaning the last three months of my life

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Since kicking off in November, the Scarlet Spiders miniseries has probably been the most integral to “Spider-Verse’s” larger narrative other than Amazing Spider-Man (though, based on the last two issues, claiming ASM has been integral to anything is debateable). So it didn’t surprise me that in its third and

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CW’s The Flash is back from its mid-season hiatus and January also marks the 75th anniversary of Flash Comics #1, the very first appearance of the Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick. That’s why, on ComicBook.com, I thought I’d rank the 20 greatest Flash stories of all time. Part one

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The best Spider-Man podcast on the internet is back with a new episode. Swing over to superiorspidertalk.com and listen to episode 13 of Amazing Spider-Talk in which Dan and I discuss Amazing Spider-Man #13, the implications of this Spring’s Secret Wars event on the Marvel Universe, and the classic

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I have grown increasingly cranky regarding the state of “Spider-Verse” over the past month or so, finding the narrative to be lacking any forward thrust and the tie-ins to be either superfluous or overindulgent. So I was obviously quite curious about what was awaiting me this week with Amazing

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Everybody loves Batman, but when people discuss some of the best Dark Knight stories, few ever mention the mid-90s “Troika” arc, which saw the full-fledged return of Bruce Wayne to the cape and the cowl. As part of my 90s Nirvana retrospective on ComicBook.com, I take a look at

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We’re now into the third full arc (or at least the third full installment) of the “Clone Saga” and I think the four-part “Web of Life” is the first indication that there were some serious flaws with the long-term planning of this storyline. It would still be quite some

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People who checked out the last couple of new issue write-ups that I’ve done understand that I’ve turned fast and hard against “Spider-Verse,” but if you really want to go back and mark the moment where I first saw a chink in the armor, it was with the publication

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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock the past few weeks, you might have heard that Marvel has reacquired its license to print Star Wars comics. And with the first issue, which was published yesterday, selling more than one million advanced copies, I’d say it was a pretty buzz-worthy

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One of the things I keyed in on during my write-up of the first arc of “Brand New Day” was how the storyline was brimming with youthful energy. While the arc that led us to the doorstep of “Brand New Day” (“One More Day”) was extraordinarily controversial and ill-conceived/executed,

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