Everything is just falling into place now, isn't it? Last week, an image of the cover to a new (and rebooted) version of Amazing Spider-Man leaks on the internet. A few days later, Marvel comes...
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Over the past two weeks, when I looked back at the two-part Amazing Spider-Man #374-375 , I bemoaned the David Michelinie/Mark Bagley collaboration as the “last great Venom story of the 90s.” Notice how I...
I think I’m losing patience with the Marvel Knights Spider-Man miniseries. I say, “think,” because I’m not entirely sure. When reading Marvel Knights Spider-Man #4, there were moments of such stunningly awful characterization, I was...
Amazing Spider-Man is supposedly coming back in April . In other news, water is wet and every day of the week ends with the letter “y.” I’m obviously not shocked by the rampant rumors that...
Consider this entry not so much a piece of thoughtful analysis, but rather an open question to my readers: So what's your takeaway of this scene from Avengers #24 (Now!)? It's Captain America and Iron...
People who follow my Gimmick or Good exploits at the Comics Should Be Good blog should know that I’m no stranger to the foil/embossed/chromium/polybagged comics of yesteryear. And yet, the gold, foil-covered Amazing Spider-Man #375...
The latest installment of my Gimmick or Good? column at the Comics Should Be Good blog returns me to my Spider-Man roots and is yet another instance where I revisit the "Clone Saga" despite my...
I’m about to come across like a stereotypical comic book fan that asks for one thing, gets it, and still finds ways to be unhappy about it. In my post about Superior Foes of Spider-Man...
When Amazing Spider-Man #374 was released in February 1993, it had been more than four years since Venom was first introduced to the world by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane . During that timeframe, Venom...









