John Byrne Archive

We’ve officially reached the end of my retrospective of the Howard Mackie/John Byrne era on Amazing Spider-Man over at SuperiorSpiderTalk.com. These last few posts look at the creative duo’s final stories on ASM before Byrne left for greener pastures (Mackie would stay on for another year or so before

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I know it’s not one of the most revered periods in Spider-Man comic’s history, but be sure to check out my Volume 2 Review retrospective on SuperiorSpiderTalk.com, which looks back at the Howard Mackie/John Byrne run on the Spidey books in the late 1990s/early 2000s. The last three installments

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For all of you Flash Thompson fans out there (and I know you’re out there), the latest installment of my Volume Two Review feature on superiorspidetalk (which revisits the Howard Mackie/John Byrne run) spotlights the long forgotten arc “The Perfect World.” Why is Flash fighting alongside Spider-Man on the

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I’m back with another installment of “Volume 2 Review” at superiorspidertalk.com, the feature where I revisit the Howard Mackie/John Byrne volume 2 reboot of Amazing Spider-Man. In this next article, I dissect the “Origin of Spider-Women Number 4 … or Five” where Spidey has to deal with not just

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The next installment for Chasing Amazing’s “One Month” is infinitely more controversial than the silliness that was Marvel Team-Up #1. With Dan Slott’s “Learning to Crawl” miniseries releasing today –  which will take a look at some of the untold events in Spider-Man’s life around Amazing Fantasy #15 and

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A week of looking at all of the various No. 1 issues in Amazing Spider-Man concludes with my latest edition of Gimmick or Good? at the Comics Should Be Good blog. This time around, I write about Amazing Spider-Man #1 vol. 2, the kickoff of the “ballyhooed” Howard Mackie/John

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For all the debate that’s been had about how Dan Slott is wrapping up his most ambitious story arc ever in the Superior Spider-Man, today’s final issue would have to be so incredibly dreadful for it to even approach the awfulness that was put forward when Marvel ended its

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It’s no secret that I have a lot of Spider-Man “blind spots,” but when it comes to Spidey “B” titles that have been off my radar for the bulk of my reading existence, Marvel Team-Up stands on its own. While I understand that Team-Up is the first official ongoing

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