Spidey Spin Offs Archive

I haven’t too enthusiastic about some of the past issues of Superior Foes of Spider-Man that choose to focus almost exclusively on one character (not named Boomerang), but I felt like Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber really worked it out with the Overdrive-centric Superior Foes #14. This is equally

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It’s been so long since we got a transition issue of Superior Foes of Spider-Man (those two standlone stories from a few months ago don’t count), that I almost didn’t know what to make of the recently released issue #13. After the hijinks of last month’s Superior Foes #12,

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The last time I talked about the Superior Foes of Spider-Man, I was none too happy about back-to-back “filler” issues that neglected to advance the overall Boomerang-led caper plot and instead featured less interesting, one-note characters like Overdrive, Speed Demon and Grizzly. That was two whole months ago – a lifetime

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The last two issues of Superior Foes of Spider-Man are textbook examples of what not to do if you’re a publisher of a cult favorite series that is reportedly on the brink of cancellation in a few months – especially when threats of cancellation are explicitly tied to sales.

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Far be it from me to demand that the creative team of Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber be the driving force behind every single issue of Superior Foes of Spider-Man from now until its inevitable (and unfortunate) cancellation a few months from now. But when we get issues like last

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An earlier issue of Superior Foes of Spider-Man featured a monologue courtesy of everyone’s favorite unreliable narrator Fred “Boomerang” Meyers where he said that the criminal business was one about “relationships.” While the speech was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, part of what has made Superior Foes such a revelation

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If I had any kind of a takeaway after reading Superior Carnage Annual #1, it’s that I now know that the upcoming Carnage vs. Deadpool miniseries will not be required reading for my overall enjoyment of the greater Spider-Man comic universe, and that I can save my $20 and

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Superior Foes of Spider-Man might be the hardest series for me to write about on Chasing Amazing because it is stunningly consistent in its approach. I have heaped lavish praise on Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber who have done what seemed like the impossible when this series first debuted

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I’m about to come across like a stereotypical comic book fan that asks for one thing, gets it, and still finds ways to be unhappy about it. In my post about Superior Foes of Spider-Man #4 in October, I lamented about how the only character in the book that

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I think in many ways I have been more enamored with the idea of Scarlet Spider rather than its actual execution as a comic book series.  Longtime followers of this blog will note that I’ve long had a soft spot for it; in large part because it started off

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