Spidey Spin Offs Archive

If the Superior Foes of Spider-Man series is like a really attractive girl that you want to date, but not sure you two are ultimately compatible, that means issue #5 is your first date that went really well, but you’re still not sure that she likes you and issue

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After building up the most non-Carnage Carnage story in the character’s history, Marvel had a change of heart (or “chickened out” depending on your opinion of Mr. Cletus Kasady) in the fifth and final part of its Superior Carnage mini-series, returning the psychotic symbiote to its status quo in

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I’ve been a little harder than most on the Superior Foes of Spider-Man franchise, mainly because I thought Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber set the bar so high in their debut issue, I’ve probably zeroed in a little too much on any faults I’ve found in the subsequent three

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From its very first issue, Scarlet Spider has featured the tagline, “All of the Power, None of the Responsibility.” And yet, 23 issues in and only two installments away from the series finale in December, the “power/no responsibility” tagline feels like a gross over-simplification of Kaine’s journey. When he

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In some of my recent write-ups of Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, I mentioned that I had resigned myself to the fact that the writers of both those series, Dan Slott and Chris Yost respectively, had taken Spider Ock far enough along a dark path that there was

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The last time I wrote about Flash Thompson’s escapades as Venom, I had more or less publicly “broken up” with the title. Then, I learned a few months later that Marvel had done the dirty work for me and cancelled Venom at issue #42. Despite my overall dissatisfaction with the

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The penultimate issue of the Superior Carnage mini-series gives readers what might end up being the Superior Spider-Man’s most engaging confrontation since this new status quo began in January – Spider Ock vs. the Wizard. (And I’ll take “sentences I never thought I would write,” for $1,000, Alex). In

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As good as Superior Foes of Spider-Man has been, after reading the fourth issue I now realize that the title is a serious misnomer. There are “foes” (plural) in terms of the existence of the (not quite) Sinister Six, but Superior Foes #4 demonstrates that the unquestionable star and

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A few quick/scattered thoughts about Scarlet Spider #22: In the world of comic books, very few characters who die, stay dead – unless you happen to be Uncle Ben or Gwen Stacy (you’re not counting the clone, are you?). But of all of the deaths that took place in

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I’ve spent so many years being unhappy with the characterization of Carnage, I haven’t really stopped to think about what I would actually want to see in the character that would make me happy. Going back to the days of the overly-long, ridiculously shallow “Maximum Carnage” crossover, I’ve thought

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