Christos Gage Archive

I can’t remember the last time I was at a place of just sheer indifference with Amazing Spider-Man. We’re now a few issues past the conclusion of “Spider-Verse,” a storyline that elicited a rather visceral reaction from me, and a few installments away from “Renew Your Vows,” which will

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I still wish that the short little vignettes we’ve been getting in the first two issues of Spider-Verse Team-Up would somehow play a more consequential role in the larger “Spider-Verse” narrative, but I also can’t deny that this miniseries continues to deliver fun and entertaining stories that further flesh

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Similar to what took place during “Spider Island” in 2011, Marvel announced a few months ago that there would be a string of spin-off miniseries and tie-in issues connected to its big “Spider-Verse” event. While none of these comics outside of the Rick Remender Venom series proved to be

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In terms of functioning as an engaging set-up for the upcoming “Spider-Verse” storyline, Superior Spider-Man #33 is a very effective comic book. But now, the question remains whether or not Dan Slott’s “Spider-Verse” is actually a story I want to read. Which is not say I’m debating skipping the arc.

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My opinion of the Superior Spider-Man Annual #2 has revealed an inconvenient truth about myself. I’ve grown tired of and frustrated with the Superior Spider-Man – the character mind you – and April and Peter’s return cannot come soon enough (though if my suspicions are true, the resolution to

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The internet is traditionally a hornet’s nest of negativity, especially as it pertains to comic books, so I make a point of always trying to be open-minded and positive when I write about a Spider-Man issue on this site. But there’s something about the Inhumanity: Superior Spider-Man one-shot that

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Everything is just falling into place now, isn’t it? Last week, an image of the cover to a new (and rebooted) version of Amazing Spider-Man leaks on the internet. A few days later, Marvel comes clean, as Dan Slott kicks off his, “ah, you caught me … yep, Peter

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If Superior Spider-Man #23 was a case study of what often frustrates me about reading a Dan Slott comic, than Superior Spider-Man #24 is a prime example of what I love about his work. Like its preceding issues, Superior #24 moves at breakneck speed, with a countless number 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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