Now that I’m officially done talking about the Hobgoblin on Chasing Amazing for some time, I thought I would use the remainder of September to acknowledge the 50th anniversary of the debut of two of...
Monthly Archives: September 2013
This post was originally published on May 3, 2011 The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was working my campus job in a computer lab. My shift started at 8:30. The morning shift was typically...
Let's party like it's 2099!! Dan Gvozden from Grind My Reels and myself have released Episode 13 of Superior Spider-Talk . In this podcast, we give our thoughts, reviews and speculation pertaining to Superior Spider-Man...
I got to hand it to Superior Foes of Spider-Man #3. What it lacks in storyline, it makes up for with the guts to be different. It helps that through the first three issues of...
I was not one of those Spider-Man fans clamoring for the return of Miguel O’Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, when Amazing/Superior Spider-Man writer Dan Slott first baited people about the character’s modern-era resurrection with an “accidental”...
The “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series certainly goes a long way in setting things “right” about the identity of the Hobgoblin in that writer Roger Stern was finally given an opportunity to explain the story he was...
Jim Salicrup, editor-in-chief of Papercutz and a former Marvel editor who oversaw the Spider-Man titles for years (and who hired superstar artist Todd McFarlane to illustrate Amazing Spider-Man), sat down with Dan Gvozden and I...
Retcons are often the lifeblood of comic book storytelling. I mean, who doesn’t appreciate somebody fixing the mistakes of a previous editorial regime by wiping that older story from existence? While I can understand some...
Until Roger Stern wrote the “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series in 1997, Ned Leeds, as revealed in Amazing Spider-Man #289 , was the Hobgoblin. The dogged reporter, who was known to have a mean streak whenever another...
Danny Fingeroth , writer on a number of Spider-Man titles and other Marvel series, and long-time Spider-Man group editor in the 1980s and1990s, sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComiCONN event...