Like them or not, killing off and then resurrecting superheroes has been part of the medium for decades. Given some recent events in comics and on comic book-related television, on ComicBook.com I decided to pull...
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Going back to one of the very first installments of “Spider-Verse” (which, believe it or not, took place in August), the character of Karn – an Inheritor who appeared to be the black sheep of...
In a recent post I've made at ComicBook.com, I compared two of my favorite things, superhero comics and pro wrestling when I took 10 popular events (i.e., Secret Wars or "Maximum Carnage") and compared them...
I promised you all last weekend that I would let you know when the second half of my 20 greatest Flash stories countdown ran on ComicBook.com. Well, here it is:what I've deemed to be the...
I fully understand that Kaare Andrews’s Spider-Man: Reign has its fans. In fact, one of those fans is the person I co-host a Spider-Man podcast with. As part of this edition of Super Blog Team-Up...
Let me pose a philosophical question for you: if Spider-Woman #3 was published and no one read it, would it make any difference on the larger narrative for “Spider-Verse?” Yes boys and girls, cranky Mark...
Since kicking off in November, the Scarlet Spiders miniseries has probably been the most integral to “Spider-Verse’s” larger narrative other than Amazing Spider-Man (though, based on the last two issues, claiming ASM has been integral...
CW's The Flash is back from its mid-season hiatus and January also marks the 75th anniversary of Flash Comics #1, the very first appearance of the Golden Age Flash Jay Garrick. That's why, on ComicBook.com,...
The best Spider-Man podcast on the internet is back with a new episode. Swing over to superiorspidertalk.com and listen to episode 13 of Amazing Spider-Talk in which Dan and I discuss Amazing Spider-Man #13, the...
I have grown increasingly cranky regarding the state of “Spider-Verse” over the past month or so, finding the narrative to be lacking any forward thrust and the tie-ins to be either superfluous or overindulgent. So...










