Monthly Archive:: November 2014

Marvel’s all new Superior Iron Man series launched last week, and with it came a Tony Stark with a new attitude and the latest in upgraded Iron Man armor/technology. Iron Man is certainly a guy who’s changed his armor up before, so on ComicBook.com, I counted down the 10

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Two-thirds of the way through its criminally short run, the Axis: Hobgoblin miniseries continues to be one of the smartest and funniest comics I’ve read this year this side of Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Kevin Shinick’s script just fires on all cylinders, delivering both traditional humor and more atypical meta-humor

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With the All New Captain America being released last week starring Sam Wilson (Falcon) as Cap, I thought I would go back to the 70s when the series was known as Captain America and Falcon and rank the best stories. Check out my top five list on ComicBook.com and

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The first issue of Spider-Verse, a two-part tie-in to the current Spider-Man event “Spider-Verse” (you see, this is why I distinguish book names with italics and storyline names with “quotations”) is the pink bubble gum of comics books – a sweet burst of flavor and indulgence that is ultimately

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Last week, DC Comics published a special 25th anniversary edition of Grant Morrison’s iconic graphic novel, Arkham Asylum: A Serious House On Serious Earth. Given this graphic novel’s impact on the industry, on ComicBook.com, I run down five reasons why we should still be celebrating this book on its

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In addition to completely upending the Amazing Spider-Man status quo by mystically dissolving the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane, what I think I best remember the “Brand New Day” era of Spider-Man for was the number of new villains introduced by the rotating team of Spidey scribes. It

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“Spider-Verse” is now officially in full swing, so why not check out what the greatest Spider-Man podcast has to say about it? Thwip over to superiorspidertalk.com to download Episode 9 of Amazing Spider-Talk. In this episode, Dan and I talk about the all new Amazing Spider-Man #9, and then

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Similar to what took place during “Spider Island” in 2011, Marvel announced a few months ago that there would be a string of spin-off miniseries and tie-in issues connected to its big “Spider-Verse” event. While none of these comics outside of the Rick Remender Venom series proved to be

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I don’t ask for much in my Spider-Man comics. Ultimately, all I want is a reason to keep coming back, month after month – to get something out of a story that makes me look forward to what comes next. I think one of the main reasons I’ve been

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Well, Spider-Verse OFFICIALLY kicked off this week, so I thought I would use my list-making skills to cobble together the 10 very best alternative timeline Spider-Man stories (i.e., no 616 stories). So go check out the link at ComicBook.com and let me know your thoughts here or there.

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