I think in many ways I have been more enamored with the idea of Scarlet Spider rather than its actual execution as a comic book series. Longtime followers of this blog will note that I’ve...
Tag: Chris Yost
While it’s not being explicitly promoted as his last issue on the series, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #8 certainly reads like an appropriate swan song for writer Chris Yost, one that also features some foreshadowing for...
I’ve been awfully critical of the last few issues of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up , as I’ve found the series has had its struggles finding its voice within the larger Spider-verse of titles. Is it meant...
When it comes to the Superior Spider-Man Team-Up series, I remain a critical outlier. The series has done very little to engage me since it officially transitioned from Avenging Spider-Man to Team-Up, and the most...
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #5 marks the payoff of a Chris Yost-penned subplot that has been slowly simmering in the pages of Avenging Spider-Man and Team-Up for the past 10 months. While the trigger-pulling of the...
As outlandish as it may sound, the two-part “Sibling Rivalry” storyline that traversed Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2 and Scarlet Spider #20 this month was one of the best Spider-Man stories I’ve read in 2013 (still...
I feel like almost every month I find myself defending my adoration for the Scarlet Spider series even though I can never exactly pinpoint what I like so much about the title. Is it the...
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...
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...
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...









