As someone who has admittedly not read many Avengers-based comic books over the years (even the recent iteration of the “New” Avengers which features Spider-Man as part of the group), this statement may be coming...
Category: Spidey Spin Offs
After reading the first installment of the Carnage USA miniseries by Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain, I waxed poetic about why I was never much of a fan of Carnage, the character. However, I wanted...
When Marvel first announced they were planning on launching a new comic book series dedicated to Peter Parker’s deranged clone Kaine, I immediately thought the only way the series would work is if the creative...
What was one of the biggest criticisms about the Spider-Man 3 movie after it came out – okay, okay, there were a LOT of issues with that movie when it first came out (Emo Peter...
Geographic location in a comic book series seems to be such an afterthought these days, especially when the vast bulk of Marvel series take place in or around New York City. So when it was...
I’m almost starting to feel bad for Flash Thompson. Which, I guess is exactly Rick Remender’s point with his work on the Venom series. While Flash was first introduced to Marvel audiences as one of...
If you take Spider-Man, subtract the responsibility and the love and support the character’s alter-ego, Peter Parker, has received in full from friends and family over the years, what you are left with is Kaine,...
When people dismiss a character as being too “one-dimensional,” what do they actually mean? It usually refers to a character having a weak back-story that readers can’t identify with. Or perhaps their motivations for doing...
Despite Marvel’s best efforts over the years, Venom, in my mind, is a villain. Sure, you can try teaming him up with Spider-Man to take down a bigger alien-threat in Carnage, or you can bond...
I took a class in college where a point of discussion was how different interpretations of the Bible’s New Testament featured a different person discovering Jesus after he was resurrected. The more traditional interpretations had...