I've had months to prepare for what inevitably transpired at the end of Amazing Spider-Man #700 – starting this past summer when writer Dan Slott first started to stir the pot about fans with pitchforks...
Monthly Archives: December 2012
The inevitably changing direction of the Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker’s universe has come under fire since the twist-filled closing pages of ASM #698 hit newsstands and took an even darker turn last week when...
As someone who started reading Amazing Spider-Man comic books 296 issues (and 25 years) after they debuted, I've always come to understand Peter Parker/Spidey’s origin story in a roundabout way. Given some of the expected...
I opened the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #698 with a little bit of trepidation. While I know the general assumption is that at some point, some semblance of a status quo will return to Peter...
I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but when I started reading Spider-Man comic books in the 1980s, I was a little late to the Hobgoblin party. Trust me, as a long-time collector and enthusiast,...
People who have read or heard me talk to them about comic books and specifically my Amazing Spider-Man collection have described me with a number of adjectives – most of them positive: “passionate,” “dedicated” and...
Before I begin, let me first insert the standard line I've been using over the past three months about what a delinquent blogger I've been. You know it, I know it, the American people know...