Ever since he was exposed as the actual Hobgoblin by Roger Stern and Ron Frenz during the Hobgoblin Lives miniseries in the late 1990s, Roderick Kingsley has remained a somewhat unmined source of stories for comic book creators. Sure, there was the Hobgoblin Lives follow-up, “Goblins at the Gate,”

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Amazing Spider-Talk is back with our eight episode focusing on Amazing Spider-Man #8 and the first appearance of Spider-Girl! Please be sure to download the episode on the fantastic superiorspidertalk.com. As always, don’t forget to subscribe to Amazing Spider-Talk through iTunes and on Stitcher. And while you’re there, leave us a rating and

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When it comes to the newly rebooted Amazing Spider-Man series, I sometimes feel like someone in the midst of the “five stages of grief” – trying to work my way through each stage until I finally (inevitably) hit upon “acceptance” and understand that eight issues in, this book continues

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After the debut of Bobbi Morse, aka, Mockingbird, on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. last night, I thought I would go through comic book history and spotlight some of the heroine’s best moments. So check out my article on ComicBook.com that lists five essential Mockingbird stories.

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Superior Foes of Spider-Man #16 is not the final issues of the series, and there are still a number of dangling plot points to be tied up next month when the series does (unfortunately) end. But like many of the very best episodic television shows over the past decade and

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Ever since the breakaway success of The Avengers film (combined with a lukewarm reaction to the Marc Webb The Amazing Spider-Man reboot), there’s been speculation of what a Spidey film would look like if Sony relinquished the rights to the character and handed them over to Marvel Studios. Recent

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DC/Warner Bros. recently made big news by announcing a huge lineup of superhero movies expected to carry the company through 2020. But beyond all of the Justice League heroes, there were a number of DC properties that were not a part of the announcement. At ComicBook.com, I run down

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Those who have been following my 75 most iconic Marvel moments list on ComicBook.com will be pleased to know that the final installment has recently run. To find out what I thought were the most important/memorable/iconic moments in the “House of Idea’s” 75 years of history, click on this

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Peter David Spider-Man books don’t have a happy history of avoiding the influence of larger company-wide or title-wide “events.” During the original Spider-Man 2099 run, the book would intermittingly have to break from its larger narrative to make room for storylines that traversed all the 2099 books. Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man,

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The newest comic book superhero to make a transition to the small screen is the Flash. In celebration of the “fastest man’s alive’s” new television show, for my Gimmick or Good feature at the Comics Should Be Good blog, I thought I’d take a look at Flash #80, a

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