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Review: Spider-Gwen #3 and Seeing some Payoffs

April 6, 2015Spidey Spin Offs2 Comments

I think a significant amount of praise that I’ve heaped on the first two installments of Spider-Gwen was predicated on the belief that an issue on the level of Spider-Gwen #3 would soon be published. Since the book launched in February, there have been a fair number of people

Untold Tales of Spider-Man and the Best Spider-Man “B” Title?

By Mark Ginocchio

May 16, 2014Blind Spots5 Comments

I think one of my biggest regrets I’ve had as a Spider-Man fan is the fact that I missed out on the Untold Tales of Spider-Man series the first time around. Instead, I was too busy wasting my time following the meandering “Clone Saga” from book to book, getting

My Favorite Issues of Amazing Spider-Man: #6 and #5

By Mark Ginocchio

January 14, 2013Top 10 ListsNo comments

As we start week two of my top ten list, we reach the the first two entries of my final “special six.” I’ll admit I’m a bit shocked I haven’t heard much criticism of some of the issues I’ve been throwing out there – in fact I got quite

Remembrance of Comics Past: Amazing Spider-Man #90

By Mark Ginocchio

June 19, 2012Remembrance of Comics Past1 Comment

At different points in my life, I’ve often contemplated if I was born in the right year. That’s because my tastes in pop culture have never really been in-tune with the rest of my generation. Sure the Beatles Anthology made the Fab Four a phenomena (again) with some of

Reading Experience: Gwen <3's Peter

By Mark Ginocchio

February 13, 2012Reading ExperienceNo comments

When I think “love” and “Spider-Man” an outsider may assume I’m going to talk about Peter Parker’s long-time relationship with Mary Jane Watson – that IS the girl he married after all. But maybe because Spider-Man is a comic book that’s as much about loss and responding to loss