I was originally planning on continuing with my “Brand New Day” retrospective today, but after watching Sunday night’s Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special, I figured I’d be within my rights to call an audible and instead talk the totally bonkers Marvel Team-Up #74 from 1978, which features Spidey

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For the first time ever, last week Marvel published a solo series starring one of pop culture’s most iconic villains, Darth Vader. Of course, years ago, Marvel actually  had the license to publish Star Wars comics, so I perused the first 50 issues of the original series (which takes us

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Because of Valentine’s Day, this weekend has been filled with reminders of love and romance, so I thought I’d take the other side of that situation on ComicBook.com and list five of the most heartbreaking stories/moments in comic book history. So get your box of tissues ready for these

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Welp… we arrived at the end of “Spider-Verse” this week, so you can guaran-damn-tee that Dan Gvozden and I break down everything about (for better or for worse). Link on over to superiorspidertalk.com to download this giant-sized episode of Amazing Spider-Talk, where Dan and I talk Amazing Spider-Man #14,

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There’s a scene early on in Amazing Spider-Man #14 that speaks volumes as to why I’ve had so many problems with “Spider-Verse,” not only in terms of its construction and execution, but also its theme and its message. Peter Parker’s “plan,” which was apparently to just show up at

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You might have heard that Superman recently changed his costume up a bit (and got a new power to boot). Anyway, costume changes are always a fun thing to talk about, so on ComicBook.com, I took a look at the 10 most dramatic transformations in superhero history. This isn’t

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So Marvel and Sony made it official yesterday announcing that Spider-Man would be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe and participating in future Avengers films. Funnily enough, right before this news broke, on ComicBook.com I wrote a list where I ranked my five favorite moments of Spider-Man being an Avenger (or

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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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Spider-Man fans might have heard of this artist, Todd McFarlene. Anyway, the former Amazing Spider-Man/Spider-Man artist recently celebrated a milestone with the publication of his 250th issue of Spawn. Since I’m as big of a fan of McFarlene as anyone, I thought I’d celebrate his 10 best comic book

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Years before Grant Morrison explored the Multiverse in Multiversity, DC released a sequel of sorts to its iconic Crisis on the Infinite Earths mini with Zero Hour: Crisis in Time. In my latest installment of 90s Nirvana on ComicBook.com, I look back at the storyline and determine whether this

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