Random Runs of Spidey Archive

My ongoing series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the infamous Spider-Man “Clone Saga” is currently being featured at SuperiorSpiderTalk.com. Please check out some of my latest “Clone Saga Callback” entries in this difficult to write (but also quite fun) retrospective of what many consider one of the worst Spidey

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It’s completely emblematic that in the midst of one of the most controversial periods for Spider-Man comics in the character’s history, Marvel would deliver a surefire classic in Amazing Spider-Man #400, and then follow-up that beautiful and tender story with the two-part “Aftershocks” (Spider-Man #57 and Spectacular Spider-Man #223)

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I hope none of you think you’ve escape the clutches of my ongoing “Clone Saga Callback” retrospective just yet. We only get one shot to celebrate the 20th anniversary of what many consider to be one of the worst Spider-Man stories ever published (I’m still not ready to concede

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If you thought I was done with my “Clone Saga Callback” series just because I never wrote about the “Web of Death” storyline in which Doctor Octopus saves Peter Parker’s life before getting murdered by the mysterious Kaine, think again. I actually wrote about “Web of Death” two summers

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With little warning our build, my look back at Amazing Spider-Man #562-563 marks the last official entry in the “Brand New Day” retrospective I’ve been running since early January. I know after this arc there’s technically one more issue with the words “Brand New Day” on the front cover,

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I guess it’s somewhat odd of me to identify any individual arc from a status quo upheaval as polarizing as “Brand New Day” as being controversial in its own right, but I do believe the “Peter Parker Paparazzi” storyline as featured in Amazing Spider-Man #559-561 (written by Dan Slott

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I’m still getting a fair bit of pushback from some of you after praising the first few arcs of the controversial “Brand New Day” era of Amazing Spider-Man. So much so that I’m starting to think this retrospective series I’m doing has evolved more into “the case for ‘Brand

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Any of my Northeast readers dealing with this unbearable cold and relentless snow the past few weeks will probably cringe a bit when they see how in my sequential retrospective of “Brand New Day” I’ve hit upon this three-part arc by Zeb Wells and Chris Bachalo that deals with

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After a two week hiatus brought upon by a deluge of new books sandwiched between an installment of my “Clone Saga Callback” feature and a new edition of the Super Blog Team-Up, I finally have the time and brain space to march onward with my “Brand New Day” era

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We’re now into the third full arc (or at least the third full installment) of the “Clone Saga” and I think the four-part “Web of Life” is the first indication that there were some serious flaws with the long-term planning of this storyline. It would still be quite some

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