Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 marks the payoff of a Chris Yost-penned subplot that has been slowly simmering in the pages of Avenging Spider-Man and Team-Up for the past 10 months. While the trigger-pulling of the...
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Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #4 had some interesting things to say socially and culturally, but I have some serious questions about whether or not it was actually a “good” Spider-Man comic. I tend not to get...
When Marvel announced a few months ago that my “mom and dad’s Spider-Man,” aka, Peter Parker, would be returning as the Web Slinging focal point of a five part mini-series that would also resurrect the...
There’s something almost schizophrenic about Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #3 in that there are elements about its story and structure that are a call back to the “olden” days of Spider-Man comics, while simultaneously functioning as...
As outlandish as it may sound, the two-part “Sibling Rivalry” storyline that traversed Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2 and Scarlet Spider #20 this month was one of the best Spider-Man stories I’ve read in 2013 (still...
As the song goes , “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1 may be promoted by Marvel as the “debut” issue of a new ongoing title, but the differences...
I’ve been pretty rough with my criticism of the last two issues of Avenging Spider-Man so you have to imagine how skeptical I was when I saw that the fate of series’ final issue before...
One of the great things that I’ve learned through my new “Blind Spots” feature , is the fact that at many times in my comic book collecting lifetime, I’ve had an unfair prejudice against some...
Given the ending to Superior Spider-Man #9 earlier this month, I can’t say I’m all that surprised by the contents of Avenging Spider-Man #20, but all the same: DAMN, Marvel went ahead and did it...
I’m nothing but a slave to convention, and while I realize the events of Superior Spider-Man #9 are at the forefront of everyone’s minds (even this home subscriber, who made sure he get his hands...