Monthly Archive:: December 2013

Episode 26 of the Superior Spider-Talk podcast is here and boy oh boy is it a big one! In this episode, Dan Gvozden and I talk about Superior Spider-Man #23, answer your fan mail, discuss upcoming Spider-Man solicitations and the Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer, and then are joined by former Amazing Spider-Man penciler

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If the Superior Foes of Spider-Man series is like a really attractive girl that you want to date, but not sure you two are ultimately compatible, that means issue #5 is your first date that went really well, but you’re still not sure that she likes you and issue

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The Amazing Spider-Man #700 “point one” bonanza continued last week with ASM #700.3, a story that was completely different in tone and mood from the two-part “Frost” arc by David Morrell and Klaus Janson. This time around, Joe Casey and Tim Green give us the first half of a

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The latest installment of my ongoing column at Comics Should Be Good that focuses on comics from the 1990s with gimmick covers (Gimmick or Good?) takes a look at the “Heroes Reborn” reboot of Marvel’s first family, Fantastic Four, by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi. In 1996, Marvel famously

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The bar was set so high after the first half of David Morrell and Klaus Janson’s “Spider-Man: Frost” story (better known via Marvel’s innocuous numbering system as Amazing Spider-Man #700.1) that one might have assumed a letdown was inevitable. It was probably incredibly premature and presumptuous for me to

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Fresh off last week’s “Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan” retrospection, I thought I’d jump back four issues for another mid-80s “one-and-done” with the Peter David-scripted Amazing Spider-Man #267, aka, “The Commuter Cometh.” It’s a comic that’s near and dear to me for a number of reasons – most notably

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I’m at the point where I’m running out of interesting things to say about Matt Kindt and Marco Rudy’s Marvel Knights Spider-Man mini-series. Three issues in and the title remains the most visually unique and interesting thing we’ve seen from a Spider-Man comic … maybe EVER, while Kindt’s script

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I’ve been awfully critical of the last few issues of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, as I’ve found the series has had its struggles finding its voice within the larger Spider-verse of titles. Is it meant to be an addendum to Dan Slott’s larger Superior Spider-Man story, or its own unique

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Don’t look now, but Episode 25 of the Superior Spider-Talk podcast is here! In this episode, Dan Gvozden and I talk about Superior Spider-Man #22 and the Superior Spider-Man Annual #1. Download the episode from iTunes or our Podomatic web site. Meanwhile, be sure to like our Facebook page for updates about the podcast. If you have any questions for

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After the self-contained stories of Superior Spider-Man #20 and #21 and the slow-simmering set-up for the title’s next major arc in Superior #22, the creative team of Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Humberto Ramos slam their foot on the gas pedal in Superior #23, giving me a lot of

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