Val Staples Archive

On the final pages in the final issue of the five-part Marvel Knights Spider-Man miniseries, a battle-weary Peter is reminded of a story Uncle Ben told him about a summer where he worked a tedious, laborious job in order to earn enough money to buy Aunt May an engagement

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I think I’m losing patience with the Marvel Knights Spider-Man miniseries. I say, “think,” because I’m not entirely sure. When reading Marvel Knights Spider-Man #4, there were moments of such stunningly awful characterization, I was absolutely certain that there was no way I was reading a Spider-Man comic, just

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We have just recently concluded arguably one of the most controversial and polarizing years in the history Spider-Man comics. We got the “death” of Peter Parker, the beginning of the “Superior” era, a host of new series like Superior Foes of Spider-Man and Superior Carnage, and the re-branding of

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