Superior Spider-Man is hardly a flawless comic book series, but I think it’s a very good one, especially when the focus of the story is more on Otto Octavius combating Peter Parker’s instincts and ethics...
Chasing Amazing
One Person's Quest To Collect Every Issue of Amazing Spider-Man
Years before the birth of my son, I was told that nothing changes how a person views the world quite like having a child. While this idea always made a great deal of sense to...
Another really cool ASM #700 variant? Just take my money already! Over the past two months, I’ve been stricken with an unexpected affliction that I hope breaks soon. I’m addicted to Amazing Spider-Man #700 variant...
I'm guest blogging again at the fantastic Escape Pod Comics site, this time talking about the involuntary memories invoked by my comic book collection . Check it out and everything else at Escape Pod.
The “tribute” to a national tragedy comic book issue has always come across to me as a very slippery slope for the superhero medium. Of course, I can’t think about one of these “very special”...
Spider-Man has long been perceived as a superhero comic book, but at its core, it’s also a love story. More so than any other comic book I can think of, there has always been an...
It’s rare for a comic book to bring me such joy and frustration simultaneously as Superior Spider-Man #2, but the heart wants what the heart wants, so while I can’t necessarily sing the issues praises...
For characters who have been spawned from the Amazing Spider-Man series, Morbius the Living Vampire has always been on the lower end of my emotional attachment scale. It’s not that he doesn’t have an interesting...
While Spider-Man is my passion and my collection primarily consists of Amazing Spider-Man comic books, like any good "geek," I will branch out to other titles and franchises for entertainment. Walking Dead is one of...
One of the first “Remembrance of Comics Past” posts I made on this blog was a story about a big box of comics I received from a friend of a friend that contained more than...