Blind Spots Archive

“With great power, must also come, great responsibility.” I know it, you know it, pretty much anyone who has ever picked up a Spider-Man comic or watched a Spider-Man animated series or live-action movie knows this is central theme of anything related to the webhead (well, maybe not viewers

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I was originally planning on continuing with my “Brand New Day” retrospective today, but after watching Sunday night’s Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, I figured I’d be within my rights to call an audible and instead talk the totally bonkers Marvel Team-Up #74 from 1978, which features Spidey

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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, which looks at alternative/parallel worlds, Dan has written an article on his fantastic site,

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It’s been a quiet week for new releases, so that means there’s time for me to plow through one more Reader Request entry before the end of the year. Via Twitter, Altonncf, a very good friend of both this site and the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast, requests a lookback at the Brian

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Editor’s Note: My real life schedule has been in a state of chaos the past two weeks so we’re going to run the final installment of my Superior Foes Spotlight today. Starting next week I will be attempting to get through all of the new releases I have not

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I’m as big of a fan of satire as it gets, yet I have to sheepishly admit that I really don’t know whether or the not the involvement of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham (as he’s commonly known) in the upcoming “Spider-Verse” event is something to be excited about.

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I figured I’d be one and done with discussing multiverse versions of Spider-Man that were featured in various What If? issues after I made my first “Across the Spider-Verse” post about What If? #1 a few weeks back. However, given the amount of face time “Assassin Spider-Man” (from the

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I have a confession to make that is bound to make me a pariah of the Spider-Man internet community (a community, which depending on the day of the week and the message board you’re reading, has a bunch of pariahs already). I can count on one finger the number

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The original Spider-Man Noir miniseries is one of those books that sounds like an interesting concept on paper, but ultimately falls short in its execution. And yet, in my three-plus years of blogging, I’ve talked/tweeted/interacted with a number of fans who absolutely adore this series. So, I guess I’ll

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As I spend the next few months writing about comics the feature “alternative” versions of Spider-Man, I thought the best place to start this dialogue was with the very first issue of Marvel’s What If? Series from 1977. That’s because in many ways, What If? laid the entire foundation

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