Mike Costa Archive

Since kicking off in November, the Scarlet Spiders miniseries has probably been the most integral to “Spider-Verse’s” larger narrative other than Amazing Spider-Man (though, based on the last two issues, claiming ASM has been integral to anything is debateable). So it didn’t surprise me that in its third and

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Two issues in the Scarlet Spiders miniseries from Mike Costa and Paco Diaz is shaping up to be a worthwhile complimentary piece to the larger “Spider-Verse” arc – with a narrative that comes across as being far more consequential than the fun but flimsy Spider-Verse Team-Up mini that came

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As the world of “Spider-Verse” continues to get bigger with crossovers and miniseries, I do appreciate the approach of some of the recent tie-ins like Spider-Woman, Spider-Man 2099 and the topic of this post, Scarlet Spiders, of providing us with stories that focus on a dedicated cast of characters

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In some of my recent write-ups of Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, I mentioned that I had resigned myself to the fact that the writers of both those series, Dan Slott and Chris Yost respectively, had taken Spider Ock far enough along a dark path that there was

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Even after reading All New X-Men Special #1 last week, the first installment of the one-shot traversing “Arms of the Octopus” storyline, which promotes the “return” of Doctor Octopus, I still don’t know exactly what this arc is hoping to accomplisht. Certainly on paper, the story offers a shocking

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