Spidey Spin Offs Archive

While I don’t think the Axis: Carnage miniseries features a premise that gives it a shelf life beyond the three issues it has been planned for (in contrast to the Axis: Hobgoblin mini, which I would love to read as an ongoing) Rick Spears and German Peralta have unquestionably

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Something that long-time comic book fans seem to universally despise is the constant rebooting of series. However, I’ve come to view the New 52s and the Marvel Now’s of the industry as a bit of a necessary evil. Are they sales driven ploys designed to get people to gobble

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Two-thirds of the way through its criminally short run, the Axis: Hobgoblin miniseries continues to be one of the smartest and funniest comics I’ve read this year this side of Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Kevin Shinick’s script just fires on all cylinders, delivering both traditional humor and more atypical meta-humor

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For the second time in a little more than a year, I have found myself pleasantly surprised and quite intrigued by a creative team that is looking to take one of my all-time least favorite characters in Carnage, in a brand new direction. Axis: Carnage #1, which is written

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Ever since he was exposed as the actual Hobgoblin by Roger Stern and Ron Frenz during the Hobgoblin Lives miniseries in the late 1990s, Roderick Kingsley has remained a somewhat unmined source of stories for comic book creators. Sure, there was the Hobgoblin Lives follow-up, “Goblins at the Gate,”

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Superior Foes of Spider-Man #16 is not the final issues of the series, and there are still a number of dangling plot points to be tied up next month when the series does (unfortunately) end. But like many of the very best episodic television shows over the past decade and

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Edge of Spider-Verse has been an unexpected surprise, especially coming on the heels of some lackluster “special edition” stories over the past few months, like the 100th Anniversary Spider-Man comic and the Inhumanity Spider-Man tie-in. Whereas the Edge of Spider-Verse mini could have very easily been another cash grab

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Insert the obligatory, “face it tiger this comic hit the jackpot” joke here. In all seriousness, Edge of Spider-Verse #2, which stars an alternative version of Gwen Stacy where she has great powers and responsibilities and operates as Spider-Woman, is a really, really good comic. In fact, I would

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There’s been a lot of hubbub from fans and critics about the quantity of crossover books and miniseries that tie-in to the upcoming “Spider-Verse” event, but I think as long as we continue to get fun, tightly-plotted stories like Edge of Spider-Verse #1, most of us will be very

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We were told by the creators of the Superior Foes of Spider-Man, Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber, not to mourn the cancellation of the series this November since the book had such an unexpectedly good run over the past year and change. While I’m not one to argue with

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