Anna Maria Marconi Archive

While this most recent arc of Amazing Spider-Man has clearly lacked the pomp and circumstance of “Spider-Verse,” or “Goblin Nation,” Amazing Spider-Man #18 still reads as an anti-climatic finale for a series that is set to go on some semblance of a hiatus while Marvel gets its Secret Wars

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“This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang, but with a whimper.” For fans that were surprised by my effusiveness for Superior Spider-Man #30 in my last write-up, you’re probably going to think I’m either a hypocrite or schizophrenic for what I’m about to write. What

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We have just recently concluded arguably one of the most controversial and polarizing years in the history Spider-Man comics. We got the “death” of Peter Parker, the beginning of the “Superior” era, a host of new series like Superior Foes of Spider-Man and Superior Carnage, and the re-branding of

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After the self-contained stories of Superior Spider-Man #20 and #21 and the slow-simmering set-up for the title’s next major arc in Superior #22, the creative team of Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Humberto Ramos slam their foot on the gas pedal in Superior #23, giving me a lot of

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In an era where seemingly every single comic book series one way or another bleed into each other in an effort to create can’t miss “events,” I’ve found it amazing that outside of a few brief exceptions, Marvel has managed to keep Spider-Man and Flash Thompson’s Agent Venom in

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