Monthly Archive:: April 2013

I’m back with Gimmick or Good? at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog. This week, I’m spotlighting Amazing Spider-Man #358, the final chapter in the six-part “Sidekick’s Revenge” arc, which had guest stars galore, such as Punisher, Moon Knight, Nova, Darkhawk and more! Continuing with the April theme, ASM

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I often wonder what my appreciation for Iron Man/Tony Stark would be without Robert Downey Jr.’s incredible (and funny) portrayal of the character in the 2007 film. Up until then, I had viewed Iron Man as a hero who was more fitting for the DC Universe – a man

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I’m pleased to announce a new project I’m involved with designed to reach Spider-Man enthusiasts via a different medium. Superior Spider-Talk is a brand new podcast where I talk Spider-Man news and reviews with fellow superfan and collector Dan Gvozden from the movie web site Grind My Reels. You

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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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As a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of DC’s “WTF” gatefold cover promotion this month, I’ve been highlighting some gatefold cover issues from the 1990s for my recurring “Gimmick or Good?” column at Comics Should Be Good. This week, I take on Captain America #400, which was both a special “centennial” issue

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You may have noticed that I’ve been providing some guest posts over at one of my favorite blogs on the interwebs lately, Longbox Graveyard. Well, apparently blogmaster Paul O’Connor hasn’t had enough of me and decided to endure a nearly two hour-long conversation with me about Chasing Amazing and

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After apparently earning the ire of the notoriously fickle Reddit community a few weeks back after I submitted a post about my suspicions that Marvel had dropped the continuity ball with Spider-Man in the Age of Ultron mini-series, Superior Spider-Man #6U, an Age of Ultron tie-in, very plainly puts

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For everyone out there who lived Jim Starlin’s “Infinity Gauntlet” mini-series from the early 1990s, I decided to review the gatefold covered sequel, Infinity War over at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog. Does the second installment live up to its predecessors? For more of my guest blogging posts,

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Amazing Spider-Man #144, the second part of the “Delusion Conspiracy” arc which sees Peter Parker and Mary Jane get closer just as Gwen Stacy’s clone makes her existence known, reminds me of another form of entertainment: professional wrestling. Before your eyes collectively roll so fast they hit the back

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