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Next summer’s surefire blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron is expected to be a “darker” movie per some early interviews with cast members, so I decided to have some fun with that idea and look at 10 outrageously crazy and offensive moments from The Avengers comics (including The Ultimates) in

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With 50 years of stories to his credit, Spider-Man was bound to be a part of some forgettable ones. My latest list at WhatCulture.com looks at 10 Spider-Man moments and characterizations that Marvel has made a concerted effort to forget or wipe from existence. These are not necessarily “bad”

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As Spider-Man fans, we are all too familiar with great storylines being decimated by editorial politics. My latest list at WhatCulture looks at 10 times throughout the industry when editorial interference ruined something we loved in comics. How many Spider-Man stories made the list? Click the link to find

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This latest piece of mine at WhatCulture is a fun one. I look at the 20 most “powerful” comic book panels of all time. By that I mean, those single panel or pages that tell an entire story and convey a wide range of emotions. It was hard for me

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For years, the Marvel cinematic universe has been broken into pieces as three major movie studios, Marvel, Sony and 20th Century Fox, all own different pieces of the larger Marvel puzzle. Well after European audiences were treated to a clip from Fox’s X-Men: Days of Future Past at the

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Electro, Rhino and Harry Osborn’s Green Goblin have all been confirmed as the featured villains in Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (opening in the United States next week). If you’re anxious to see it, or just want some reading material about a couple of Spidey B-list bad guys, I

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You should all expect my thoughts on Superior Spider-Man #31 on this site tomorrow, but until then, I’d like to encourage you to check out the latest top 10 list I put together for WhatCulture.com: 10 Reasons to Celebrate the Superior Spider-Man. This list takes a look at what

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We’ve already seen a bunch of famous Spider-Man comic book movies make it to the big screen (Spidey’s origin/Uncle Ben’s murder, “Spider-Man No More,” the death of the Green Goblin, etc.) but my latest list at WhatCulture.com takes a look at 10 moments that are way too controversial and/or

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With Captain America: The Winter Solder opening up in North America on Friday, I thought it was time to start focusing on some content about the Red, White and Blue Avenger (including a special post about Spider-Man, Cap and The Falcon scheduled for tomorrow). First up is a list

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I’ve put together another comic book list at WhatCulture, this time drawing inspiration from the dozens of different Spider-Men featured in Marvel’s “Spider-Verse” promotion as a means to rank my 10 favorite Spider-Man costumes. To create this totally subjective and arbitrary listing, I considered the costume’s historical significance, along

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