Monthly Archive:: July 2013

When I read a few months ago that July’s “dramatic” new status quo shift in Superior Spider-Man #14 would deal with “Shadowland,” I had to rack my brain for a minute to know what the heck the mighty folks of Marvel were talking about. Shadowland? What’s a Shadowland? The

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It appears that every time Marvel announces a “brand new era” of Superior Spider-Man (and with the release of Superior Spider-Man #14 last week, I think we’re officially up to our third “new era” in the title’s very short history) the dramatic status quo shift is that Otto Octavius

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I know it’s been a while since there’s been an episode of Superior Spider-Talk, but my partner-in-crime Dan Gvozden really issued an update regarding our imminent recording schedule for the next few episodes. Long story short, podcasts are coming, they’re coming soon, and they’re coming in bulk. But in

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In case you missed it on Friday, for my latest Gimmick or Good? feature on CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I spotlighted two parts of 1993’s “Fatal Attractions” arc that celebrated the 30th anniversary of X-Men (by adding holographic panels to the cover of all five of its

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Wolverine has always been a complicated character for me to have a reader-relationship with – and that’s just par for the course for a mysterious anti-hero whose entire shtick is predicated on the fact that he’s an incredibly difficult nut to crack. But for me, the complications stem from

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Despite only making his first appearance a handful of issues ago, Hobgoblin’s rapid ascension to power in both the fictitious world of Spider-Man comic books, and the real world of public perception is on front and center display in Amazing Spider-Man #244. Showing how much confidence he has in

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I think the only thing that surprised me when I read that Marvel had cancelled its Morbius the Living Vampire series was the fact that the title was allowed to get as far along as nine issues before the plug was going to be pulled. I thought the comic

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Oh, Carnage – you and I got such a complicated relationship. Actually, it’s not complicated at all. I’ve always been on the record as not being a fan. But I also understand there’s a contingent of the fan base that LOVE you. A lot of them are the same

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Part three of my analysis of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series is up and ready for you to read on the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s web site. In this ongoing series, which runs every other Friday on Sequart, I look at “garden and wilderness” themes in Kirkman’s

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What’s so unique about Amazing Spider-Man #239 is how writer Roger Stern takes his new creation, the Hobgoblin, and expertly crafts the villain as a legitimate physical and psychological threat to Spider-Man, while also exposing the character’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses. In the 20 years of Spider-Man comics that preceded

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