In two different scenes in Superior Spider-Man #11, Otto Octavius, finds himself “trapped” by the failings of his Spider-Man predecessor, Peter Parker. But in a comic issue that focuses on the inhabitants of the Raft...
Category: New Issues
Whenever I find myself getting apprehensive about the direction of the Spider-Man universe, Dan Slott finds a way to bring me back from the brink. After reading Avenging Spider-Man #20 earlier this month, I had...
Superior Spider-Man #9 was promoted by Marvel and the issue’s creative team as being filled with controversy. It also happens to be my favorite issue of this young series, and perhaps Dan Slott’s finest hour...
Superior Spider-Man #8, the second part of the “Troubled Mind” arc, does something that no previous issue of Superior has truly nailed yet – the comic features a true moment of redemption for Spider Ock,...
Never one to ignore an opportunity to tout my insightfulness when it comes to … everything, really, a couple of weeks ago I published an article with the non-profit comic book magazine/web site Sequart about...
After apparently earning the ire of the notoriously fickle Reddit community a few weeks back after I submitted a post about my suspicions that Marvel had dropped the continuity ball with Spider-Man in the Age...
In the build-up and aftermath of Amazing Spider-Man #700’s “shock” ending, one of the points Marvel higher-ups made ( and continued to make as recently as last week ) regarding the Peter Parker/Doc Ock mind...
The way I see it, Superior Spider-Man #5’s shocking ending – Spidey Ock killing Massacre as a means to protect society from future violence by a demented serial killer – has both a positive and...
(hat tip to the awesome folks at Spiderfan.org for helping me to read a version of this issue. Meanwhile, it's been more than two weeks Marvel subscriber services ... come on now). Superior Spider-Man is...
Superior Spider-Man is hardly a flawless comic book series, but I think it’s a very good one, especially when the focus of the story is more on Otto Octavius combating Peter Parker’s instincts and ethics...