Over the years, I’ve occasionally referred to the litany of losers and D-list villains introduced in the Spider-Man universe during the late 1970s/early 1980s as Spidey’s “Bronze Age Bums.” While there were a couple of...
Chasing Amazing
One Person's Quest To Collect Every Issue of Amazing Spider-Man
Well, you've all seen the trailer by now for next summer's Avengers: Age of Ultron, including a creepy-sounding James Spader (is there any other kind?) voicing the killer robot Ultron. Since Ultron is where it's...
One of the great villains in comic book history, Ra's Al Ghul is going to play a prominent role in the third season of Arrow this year. To celebrate the character, on ComicBook.com I've outlined...
In honor of Halloween last Friday, on ComicBook.com I wrote about 10 great "hellacious" comic book stories ; i.e., stories about demons and hellspawn. Do you have a favorite comic book story dealing with the...
With Superior Foes of Spider-Man ending later this month, I thought I would write a couple of posts about storylines that prominently feature some members of the “Fantastic Five” (Boomerang, Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle and...
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...
You might have noticed that a new Carnage story came out yesterday (with my thoughts to be posted tomorrow). Anyway, followers of my site know I have a complicated relationship with that sociopathic symbiote. So...
I’m as big of a fan of satire as it gets, yet I have to sheepishly admit that I really don’t know whether or the not the involvement of Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham (as...
Now that we know that DC/Warner Brothers are going to deliver nine new superhero movies between now and 2020, I want to know about the bad guys. At ComicBook.com, I list out 10 villains I...
Last Friday, NBC debuted its new horror series Constantine , which is based on the comic book character, John Constantine. To mark this moment, at ComicBook.com, I ran down some of John Constantine's more memorable...