Monthly Archive:: November 2014

Superior Foes of Spotlight: When Spidey Met Fred

November 28, 2014Blind Spots2 Comments

Editor’s Note: My real life schedule has been in a state of chaos the past two weeks so we’re going to run the final installment of my Superior Foes Spotlight today. Starting next week I will be attempting to get through all of the new releases I have not

Spider-Woman #1: An Odd Introduction

By Mark Ginocchio

November 26, 2014Spidey Spin Offs2 Comments

Something that long-time comic book fans seem to universally despise is the constant rebooting of series. However, I’ve come to view the New 52s and the Marvel Now’s of the industry as a bit of a necessary evil. Are they sales driven ploys designed to get people to gobble

Guest Blogs: 10 Most Unlikely Alliances

By Mark Ginocchio

November 25, 2014Guest BlogsNo comments

The current Axis event has created some unusual bedfellow as the Inversion spell had changed heroes into villains and villains into heroes. Because of this, at ComicBook.com, I thought I would rank the 10 most unusual and unlikely alliances in comic book history. These are the instances where mortal

Amazing Spider-Man #10: Less is Still More

By Mark Ginocchio

November 24, 2014New Issues1 Comment

While it still leaps and bounds better than some of the issues we were getting prior to the onset of “Spider-Verse,” I can’t help but think of Amazing Spider-Man #10 as a bit of a step backwards in the quality department – especially when compared to the wonderful opening

Spider-Talk and Their Amazing Friends: Giussepe Camuncoli

By Mark Ginocchio

November 23, 2014PodcastsNo comments

Thanks to our crazy schedules around the holidays, Dan Govzden and I are not going to be able to record a new review episode of Amazing Spider-Talk until after Thanksgiving. But have no fear true believers! To hold you guys over, we have one of our Spider-Talk and Their

Superior Foes Spotlight: The Beetle and his Human Torch Fixation

By Mark Ginocchio

November 21, 2014Reading Experience1 Comment

This next entry in my little miniseries of spotlights on Superior Foes of Spider-Man characters is an undeniable cheat. I wanted to write about something involving the Beetle, but Janice Lincoln, the female iteration of the character (dubbed “Lady Beetle” in many of my posts) never actually interacted with

Guest Blogs: 5 Things We Want to See in a Doctor Strange Movie

By Mark Ginocchio

November 20, 2014Guest BlogsNo comments

With it basically being confirmed that Benedict Cumberbatch will be playing Stepehn Strange in 2016’s Doctor Strange film, I thought it would be fun to start speculating about some things we’d like to see in this film. Click over to ComicBook.com to see if any of my ideas for

Guest Blogs: 5 Essential Two-Face Stories

By Mark Ginocchio

November 20, 2014Guest BlogsNo comments

Those of who watching Gotham might have noticed the small screen debut of one Harvey Dent, the idealistic district attorney who goes on to become the supervillain Two-Face. On ComicBook.com, I rank five essential Two-Face stories. Check out these key historic moments and iconic storylines that feature everyone’s favorite

Clone Saga Callback: The Exile Returns

By Mark Ginocchio

November 19, 2014Random Runs of Spidey1 Comment

After formally reintroducing the clone in the “Power and Responsibility” arc the month before, Marvel immediately starting mixing things up a bit with its Spider-books in order to advance the “Clone Saga.” While Peter Parker continued his descent into madness in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man

Guest Blogs: 10 More Characters for Marvel Phase 3

By Mark Ginocchio

November 18, 2014Guest BlogsNo comments

Marvel recently announced a whole slate of new movies as part of its cinematic universe, and that’s got us all speculating about the details. To add some fuel to the hypothetical fire, on ComicBook.com, I suggest 10 additional characters for all of the different films being released between now