The first in a series of posts I’m working on about the Walking Dead comic book series was published on Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s site today. In these posts, I look at individual Walking Dead arcs and explore the theme of the “garden and the wilderness,” i.e. moments

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As I mentioned in my post about Amazing Spider-Man #136 last week, part of what made Harry Osborn as the second Green Goblin such a captivating character was his unique relationship to the man underneath the Spider-Man mask, Peter Parker. While Spidey has had personal connections to villains (in

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Today, I make my long-awaited return guest blogging for one of my favorite comic book sites around the Internet, Longbox Graveyard. This post is the comic book blogging equivalent of a two-for-one sale: I cover the sometimes acrimonious, sometimes heart-warming relationship between two of my all-time favorite characters, Human

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I’ve been pretty rough with my criticism of the last two issues of Avenging Spider-Man so you have to imagine how skeptical I was when I saw that the fate of series’ final issue before Avenging transforms into Superior Team-Up in July rested solely on the sociopathic shoulders of

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As if the comic book blogosphere hasn’t talked enough about Superman the past week, I’ve thrown my hat in the ring (in addition to my Superman/Spider-Man re-post earlier today) by focusing on 1993’s Adventures of Superman #500 in my latest entry of “Gimmick or Good?” at CBR’s Comics Should

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The recent “DC 52” reboot of the publisher’s entire line of comics has brought my memories back to this ASM homage to the 50th anniversary of Superman’s first appearance in Action Comics #1. It’s a rare instance of a DC/Marvel crossover and the recognition of a moment in comic

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There are times when a relationship with a comic book series is akin to a romance. There are the comic book titles that you develop an unconditional love for, sticking with them through thick, thin and the death of Peter Parker. And then there are the titles that you

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Dan and I are back with Episode 4 of the Superior Spider-Talk podcast. Download from either our PodOmatic site, or from our iTunes channel. In this episode, we talk about Superior Spider-Man issues #10 and #11, we look back on classic Amazing Spider-Man issues #26 and 27 (the Green

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I never found a way to be successful at that whole comic book speculator thing. That’s part of the reason why I chose to dedicate my collection to only one title, Amazing Spider-Man, because otherwise I would probably make one bad investment after another, chasing after fool’s gold and

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In two different scenes in Superior Spider-Man #11, Otto Octavius, finds himself “trapped” by the failings of his Spider-Man predecessor, Peter Parker. But in a comic issue that focuses on the inhabitants of the Raft – a state-of-the-art prison for supervillains that seems to frequently fail at doing what

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