B Titles Archive

People who checked out the last couple of new issue write-ups that I’ve done understand that I’ve turned fast and hard against “Spider-Verse,” but if you really want to go back and mark the moment where I first saw a chink in the armor, it was with the publication

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As the world of “Spider-Verse” continues to get bigger with crossovers and miniseries, I do appreciate the approach of some of the recent tie-ins like Spider-Woman, Spider-Man 2099 and the topic of this post, Scarlet Spiders, of providing us with stories that focus on a dedicated cast of characters

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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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Peter David Spider-Man books don’t have a happy history of avoiding the influence of larger company-wide or title-wide “events.” During the original Spider-Man 2099 run, the book would intermittingly have to break from its larger narrative to make room for storylines that traversed all the 2099 books. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,

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