When you write a few times each week about comic book characters, you frequently find yourself debating heroes and villains because they are the most basic and essential ingredients in a good superhero story. Having...
Monthly Archives: January 2012
Despite growing up a mere 40-minute train away from New York City in the suburbs of Long Island, I never really grew to know and love the “Big Apple” until I was in college. Interestingly...
While the dissolution of Peter’s marriage with Mary Jane gets all the headlines when fans gripe about ASM’s status quo upheaval at the onset of 2008’s Brand New Day storyline, I was always equally perturbed...
Since the very first issue of Amazing Spider-Man, it’s been established how important it is for Spidey’s civilian identity – teenage wallflower/science geek Peter Parker – to remain a secret. The consequences of his secret...
While I’m undoubtedly a Spider-Man fan and enthusiast, my introduction to the Marvel universe and eventually Amazing Spider-Man comic books came through Marvel’s Secret War series in the mid-1980s. For those unfamiliar with Secret Wars,...
Given that the Vulture was the prime antagonist in ASM’s #674 and 675 (which are sadly, the last two issues I’ve received from Marvel’s subscription service – come on guys, how hard is it for...
For those of you who have been following my monotonous griping over the fact that Marvel is using the Spider-Man character on too many superhero teams, you’ll note that one of my biggest complaints is...
If you’re buying comic books as a collector, you can’t get lazy. Because if I learned anything in my 20+ years of collecting, it’s that if you slack for even one second, that’s when you...
A pair of dueling columns on the web site Bleeding Cool recently explored the idea of how politics may be negatively impacting comic book sales (which continue to spiral downward). While I could dismiss the...
The 1990’s Clone Saga was a dark time for my comic book fandom, a true test of my will and tolerance for nonsensical writing and the “can you top this” attitude that accompanied the industry’s...
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