New Issues Archive

Everything is just falling into place now, isn’t it? Last week, an image of the cover to a new (and rebooted) version of Amazing Spider-Man leaks on the internet. A few days later, Marvel comes clean, as Dan Slott kicks off his, “ah, you caught me … yep, Peter

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As most of you will note, the very first issue of Amazing Spider-Man featured a crossover with Marvel’s “first family,” the Fantastic Four. So what better what to cap off the last issue of Amazing Spider-Man (until Marvel inevitably reboots the title when Superior Spider-Man ends next year, or

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While the two part “Black Lodge” arc, which concluded in Amazing Spider-Man #700.4 last week, is never going to find a place on any of my “best ever” Spider-Man story lists, there is something about writer Joe Casey’s handle on the Spider-Man character and his universe that makes me

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If Superior Spider-Man #23 was a case study of what often frustrates me about reading a Dan Slott comic, than Superior Spider-Man #24 is a prime example of what I love about his work. Like its preceding issues, Superior #24 moves at breakneck speed, with a countless number of

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The Amazing Spider-Man #700 “point one” bonanza continued last week with ASM #700.3, a story that was completely different in tone and mood from the two-part “Frost” arc by David Morrell and Klaus Janson. This time around, Joe Casey and Tim Green give us the first half of a

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The bar was set so high after the first half of David Morrell and Klaus Janson’s “Spider-Man: Frost” story (better known via Marvel’s innocuous numbering system as Amazing Spider-Man #700.1) that one might have assumed a letdown was inevitable. It was probably incredibly premature and presumptuous for me to

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After the self-contained stories of Superior Spider-Man #20 and #21 and the slow-simmering set-up for the title’s next major arc in Superior #22, the creative team of Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Humberto Ramos slam their foot on the gas pedal in Superior #23, giving me a lot of

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Marvel’s resurrection of the Amazing Spider-Man franchise this month was marketed to fans as the “return” of Peter Parker, one year after he was ingloriously killed off by Doctor Octopus in ASM #700. Leading off a month of “point one” issues – arguably Marvel’s most confounding numbering gimmick – is

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In an era where seemingly every single comic book series one way or another bleed into each other in an effort to create can’t miss “events,” I’ve found it amazing that outside of a few brief exceptions, Marvel has managed to keep Spider-Man and Flash Thompson’s Agent Venom in

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Marvel has been telling us for months that Superior Spider-Man Annual #1 “counts.” As someone who probably has an unhealthy amount of skepticism regarding the “legitimacy” of the Spider-Man annual issues, you could only imagine what my expectations were for Marvel’s first Superior Annual. Now that I’ve read this

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