B Titles Archive

People who checked out the last couple of new issue write-ups that I’ve done understand that I’ve turned fast and hard against “Spider-Verse,” but if you really want to go back and mark the moment where I first saw a chink in the armor, it was with the publication

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I honestly haven’t been a huge fan of Spider-Man 2099 since the “Spider-Verse” tie-ins started a couple of months ago. I could just be projecting, but the awkward insertion of this storyline feels reminiscent to what inevitably doomed Peter David’s run on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man a few years ago.

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Two issues in the Scarlet Spiders miniseries from Mike Costa and Paco Diaz is shaping up to be a worthwhile complimentary piece to the larger “Spider-Verse” arc – with a narrative that comes across as being far more consequential than the fun but flimsy Spider-Verse Team-Up mini that came

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During the buildup to Marvel’s two big events that involve Spider-Man, “Spider-Verse” and “Axis” respectively, the company announced that the Web Slinger was going to star in another book that was also being spun off from a major “world changing” storyline. Due to the death of Spider-Man’s Avengers teammates

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I still wish that the short little vignettes we’ve been getting in the first two issues of Spider-Verse Team-Up would somehow play a more consequential role in the larger “Spider-Verse” narrative, but I also can’t deny that this miniseries continues to deliver fun and entertaining stories that further flesh

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While it was certainly an entertaining premise to set the recently rebooted Spider-Man 2099 series in the present day, thereby making it a pseudo “fish out of water” story with a unique twist thanks to Peter David’s wittiness, it felt all too inevitable that the series would eventually send

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As the world of “Spider-Verse” continues to get bigger with crossovers and miniseries, I do appreciate the approach of some of the recent tie-ins like Spider-Woman, Spider-Man 2099 and the topic of this post, Scarlet Spiders, of providing us with stories that focus on a dedicated cast of characters

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The first issue of Spider-Verse, a two-part tie-in to the current Spider-Man event “Spider-Verse” (you see, this is why I distinguish book names with italics and storyline names with “quotations”) is the pink bubble gum of comics books – a sweet burst of flavor and indulgence that is ultimately

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Similar to what took place during “Spider Island” in 2011, Marvel announced a few months ago that there would be a string of spin-off miniseries and tie-in issues connected to its big “Spider-Verse” event. While none of these comics outside of the Rick Remender Venom series proved to be

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Peter David Spider-Man books don’t have a happy history of avoiding the influence of larger company-wide or title-wide “events.” During the original Spider-Man 2099 run, the book would intermittingly have to break from its larger narrative to make room for storylines that traversed all the 2099 books. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,

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