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With the success of such comic books-turned-television shows like The Walking Dead, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Arrow, plus the anticipated debut of Gotham and The Flash in the fall, I took to WhatCulture to suggest 10 more comics that would translate well on the small screen. Take a

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In the past, I’ve often referred to the simplicity of Electro’s origin story. When the character was first introducing in Amazing Spider-Man #9 it a no fuss, no muss affair – an ordinary lineman Max Dillon gets extraordinary powers, and as a contrast to our titular hero Spider-Man, decides to

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Comic books are pretty powerful and while they tend to make us laugh or fill us with awe, they also have the capacity to make us cry. For my latest WhatCulture list, I looked at 15 moments from comics that have made us cry. Please click through the list

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Two issues into my new campaign to share my thoughts on the Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man series, and I’m already starting to understand some of the inherent challenges that will come with such an endeavor. Brian Michael Bendis is a very good comic book writer, and seems to

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As a nod to the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman, my latest Gimmick or Good column at Comics Should Be Good looks at the first issue of the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight series. This comic, from 1989, is considered by some to be the

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The last time I talked about the Superior Foes of Spider-Man, I was none too happy about back-to-back “filler” issues that neglected to advance the overall Boomerang-led caper plot and instead featured less interesting, one-note characters like Overdrive, Speed Demon and Grizzly. That was two whole months ago – a lifetime

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Over the course of five Spider-Man movies, Spidey fans have been treated to a number of iconic moments from comic books such as the death of Uncle Ben, Spider-Man No More, and the death of Gwen and Captain Stacy. With Sony planning at least two more The Amazing Spider-Man movies,

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Just when you thought Chasing Amazing was done with theme months, I’ve decided to kick of another batch of loosely connected posts in June. Because the recently rebooted Amazing Spider-Man series is featuring Electro and Black Cat so prominently as part of its first arc, I thought I would

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In the past, I have not been shy about expressing my love for Marvel’s Secret Wars miniseries. Now that it’s celebrating ints 30th anniversary in 2014, in my latest WhatCulture submission, I thought I would look back at this great Marvel event and discuss 10 reasons why we still

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Amazing Spider-Talk finally releases its The Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie review/discussion episode with a very special guest! Gerry Conway, architect of the “Night Gwen Stacy Died” storyline in the Amazing Spider-Man #121-122 joins Dan Gvozden and I to talk about Sony’s new film and his impressions on Spider-Man in

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