Avenging Spider-Man Archive

As the song goes, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1 may be promoted by Marvel as the “debut” issue of a new ongoing title, but the differences between this book and its predecessor, Avenging Spider-Man, are as superficial as it gets. The

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Finally, after more than six months of not having a single new comic book featuring Peter Parker as Spider-Man, I have to dip into a Wolverine title of all places to find flesh-and-blood, old-school, wise-cracking Spidey. And unlike the story we were all fed during the first few issues

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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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One of the great things that I’ve learned through my new “Blind Spots” feature, is the fact that at many times in my comic book collecting lifetime, I’ve had an unfair prejudice against some of Spidey’s “B” titles at the expense of missing some pretty great storylines. But it’s

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Given the ending to Superior Spider-Man #9 earlier this month, I can’t say I’m all that surprised by the contents of Avenging Spider-Man #20, but all the same: DAMN, Marvel went ahead and did it … they’ve made Spider-Man into a full-fledged baddie. At least that’s the direction Chris

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I’m nothing but a slave to convention, and while I realize the events of Superior Spider-Man #9 are at the forefront of everyone’s minds (even this home subscriber, who made sure he get his hands on a copy the day it came out based purely on the buzz I

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Continuing the trend I first talked about earlier this week, the Avenging Spider-Man series appears to be the series where Marvel’s creative powers have decided to focus almost exclusively on Spider Ock’s internal evolution – specifically vis a vis other Marvel superheroes. In the case of Avenging Spider-Man #18,

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Since the great status quo switcheroo following the events of Amazing Spider-Man #700, to my surprise, Avenging Spider-Man has been the Spidey title that seemingly focuses the most on the development and characterization of the brand new Superior Spider-Man. While Dan Slott’s work on Superior seems to focus more

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When it became abundantly clear at the end of Amazing Spider-Man #700 that the role of Spider-Man was now going to be played by an in-control-of-Peter-Parker’s-body Doctor Octopus, beyond “what’s going to happen to Peter,” my biggest concern and curiosity was how the rest of the Marvel universe was

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In the final pages of the lead story of Amazing Spider-Man #700, we learned that Doctor Octopus, having taken control of Peter Parker’s body, would carry on his legacy of power and responsibility (maybe) as the Superior Spider-Man, while Peter, trapped in Otto’s cancer-ridden body, died (at least that’s

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