While we’ve been hearing a lot the past few days about the decision to cast Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie, what about DC’s decision in the 1990s to replace Bruce Wayne with the psychotic Jean-Paul Valley? The latest installment in my Gimmick or

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As outlandish as it may sound, the two-part “Sibling Rivalry” storyline that traversed Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2 and Scarlet Spider #20 this month was one of the best Spider-Man stories I’ve read in 2013 (still placing it below Superior Spider-Man’s #7-9 “Troubled Mind” arc, and it remains to be

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Reading Amazing Spider-Man #250 is like watching the season finale of a television show where the showrunner  or writer knows he or she is leaving the show (either willingly or acrimoniously) and thus decides to introduce a ton of big ideas into the final script that are impossible for

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I know I had my reservations about making Carnage the spotlight of yet another Marvel mini-series, but I was shocked all the same after reading Superior Carnage #2 and seeing how the serial-killing symbiote was being used more as a plot device rather than as the star of a

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As somebody who loves comics, I was happy to talk about my quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man, along with some of the other comic book writing I do around the Interwebs with the super-awesome Matt Little and Brett White, hosts of the Matt and Brett Love

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When it comes to my popular culture consumption, I’m a sucker for good characters. Give me quality, well-drawn characters and I’ll probably end up liking what I’m seeing/reading regardless of how fast-paced the story may be. That’s why a show like Mad Men, which moves at a glacial pace

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With Marvel launching its brand new “Infinity” mini-series, I thought the timing was right to review 1993’s Infinity Crusade mini-series for my latest Gimmick or Good? feature on Comics Should Be Good’s web site. Crusade was the third “Infinity” event penned by Jim Starlin in as many years and

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After months of planning, plotting and misdirection, Amazing Spider-Man #249 shows an invigorated Hobgoblin who is finally starting to make his master plan of conquest apparent to his intended victims. Beyond the Hobgoblin’s initial introduction in ASM #238, this issue and the two that follow (marking the end the

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Like every other comic book fan with a pulse, I truly enjoyed last summer’s Avengers movie and nearly leapt out of my seat at the very end when (*spoiler*) THANOS showed up in the teaser. It’s Thanos, the “Mad God of Titan,” the man who courts Death, the …

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There are times in my life when I feel like I’m fighting a giant sand monster armed with only a fly swatter and a paper cup. I am currently living in one of these moments, so it’s totally serendipitous that my “remaining chase” has been narrowed down to just

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