Avenging Spider-Man Archive

I’ll admit that I had some reservations about the “Avenging Spider-Man” series when Marvel first announced it, and even after the first three issues, which revolved around a Spidey/Red Hulk team-up. It’s not that I objected to the Marvel Team-Up-style formula the series was seemingly going to employ, as

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While the depth of writing in the new Avenging Spider-Man series reminds me of the “Reader’s Digest” version of a Spider-Man comic book (or maybe the daily newspaper comic book strip is a better comparison), there has still been some stolen moments of solid characterization and storytelling as it

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Spider-Man’s relationship with former Daily Bugle publisher/current New York City Mayor J. Jonah Jameson, has always been a complicated one, in large part because Spidey’s kind and forgiving nature has always prevailed over more basic human nature, which drives us to want to vanquish and destroy our greatest enemies

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For those of you who have been following my monotonous griping over the fact that Marvel is using the Spider-Man character on too many superhero teams, you’ll note that one of my biggest complaints is that in the context of Jonathan Hickman’s FF/Fantastic Four and Brian Michael Bendis’ Avengers/New

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For the past few months, I haven’t been shy about the fact that I’m not a big fan of Spider-Man moonlighting with so many other superhero teams, such as the Future Foundation and The Avengers. While I’ve made the argument that it goes against the core tenants of the

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While DC reboots every single one of their flagship comic books, Marvel announced earlier this week that they were going to introduce a new Spider-Man centric series in November entitled Avenging Spider-Man. As you might have deducted from the title, the series is going to focus exclusively on Spidey’s

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