New Issues Archive

Whenever I find myself getting apprehensive about the direction of the Spider-Man universe, Dan Slott finds a way to bring me back from the brink. After reading Avenging Spider-Man #20 earlier this month, I had some reservations about how Spider Ock was being characterized. Without Astral Peter there as Otto’s

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Superior Spider-Man #8, the second part of the “Troubled Mind” arc, does something that no previous issue of Superior has truly nailed yet – the comic features a true moment of redemption for Spider Ock, while also maintaining the overall loose cannon/prick-ishness that has defined his personality through the

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Never one to ignore an opportunity to tout my insightfulness when it comes to … everything, really, a couple of weeks ago I published an article with the non-profit comic book magazine/web site Sequart about the projection of memories in Superior Spider-Man. As someone who read and analyzed many

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In the build-up and aftermath of Amazing Spider-Man #700’s “shock” ending, one of the points Marvel higher-ups made (and continued to make as recently as last week) regarding the Peter Parker/Doc Ock mind swap was how similar both characters were when they were younger and how fate seemingly intervened

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Superior Spider-Man is hardly a flawless comic book series, but I think it’s a very good one, especially when the focus of the story is more on Otto Octavius combating Peter Parker’s instincts and ethics as Spider-Man, rather than physically combating some astral form of Peter instead. Of the

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