New York City Archive

This post was originally published on May 3, 2011 The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I was working my campus job in a computer lab. My shift started at 8:30.  The morning shift was typically very quiet, so when I wasn’t reading and/or catching up on my homework, I

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Despite growing up a mere 40-minute train away from New York City in the suburbs of Long Island, I never really grew to know and love the “Big Apple” until I was in college. Interestingly enough, it was also during this time in my life that my interest in

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There’s a moment in Fear Itself: Spider-Man #2 where I’m overtaken with a bit of jingoistic pride and suddenly, whether it’s intentional or not, this whole off-shoot miniseries started to make sense to me. After dispatching of rat-like villain, Vermin, Spider-Man heads back into the teeth of the storm:

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The Marvel universe had a major shake-up a few months ago when Johnny Storm, aka, the Human Torch, a member of the Fantastic Four, was killed. Keep in mind that killing a character in the world of comic books is about as permanent as it is on a television

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