B Titles Archive

Continuing the trend I first talked about earlier this week, the Avenging Spider-Man series appears to be the series where Marvel’s creative powers have decided to focus almost exclusively on Spider Ock’s internal evolution – specifically vis a vis other Marvel superheroes. In the case of Avenging Spider-Man #18,

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Since the great status quo switcheroo following the events of Amazing Spider-Man #700, to my surprise, Avenging Spider-Man has been the Spidey title that seemingly focuses the most on the development and characterization of the brand new Superior Spider-Man. While Dan Slott’s work on Superior seems to focus more

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In the final pages of the lead story of Amazing Spider-Man #700, we learned that Doctor Octopus, having taken control of Peter Parker’s body, would carry on his legacy of power and responsibility (maybe) as the Superior Spider-Man, while Peter, trapped in Otto’s cancer-ridden body, died (at least that’s

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I’ll admit that I had some reservations about the “Avenging Spider-Man” series when Marvel first announced it, and even after the first three issues, which revolved around a Spidey/Red Hulk team-up. It’s not that I objected to the Marvel Team-Up-style formula the series was seemingly going to employ, as

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While the depth of writing in the new Avenging Spider-Man series reminds me of the “Reader’s Digest” version of a Spider-Man comic book (or maybe the daily newspaper comic book strip is a better comparison), there has still been some stolen moments of solid characterization and storytelling as it

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Spider-Man’s relationship with former Daily Bugle publisher/current New York City Mayor J. Jonah Jameson, has always been a complicated one, in large part because Spidey’s kind and forgiving nature has always prevailed over more basic human nature, which drives us to want to vanquish and destroy our greatest enemies

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For those of you who have been following my monotonous griping over the fact that Marvel is using the Spider-Man character on too many superhero teams, you’ll note that one of my biggest complaints is that in the context of Jonathan Hickman’s FF/Fantastic Four and Brian Michael Bendis’ Avengers/New

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For the past few months, I haven’t been shy about the fact that I’m not a big fan of Spider-Man moonlighting with so many other superhero teams, such as the Future Foundation and The Avengers. While I’ve made the argument that it goes against the core tenants of the

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Part of what keeps me coming back to Spider-Man years after opening up my first Amazing Spider-Man comic book is his long-standing hopefulness. What makes this hopefulness so effective is the fact that it’s contrasted by a character who’s backstory is predominantly cynical. Peter Parker/Spider-Man is an orphan, who’s

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There’s a moment in Fear Itself: Spider-Man #2 where I’m overtaken with a bit of jingoistic pride and suddenly, whether it’s intentional or not, this whole off-shoot miniseries started to make sense to me. After dispatching of rat-like villain, Vermin, Spider-Man heads back into the teeth of the storm:

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