Peter David Archive

It’s hard to believe that another few months have passed and it’s time for another installment of the greatest assembly of comic book blogging talent on the internet – the Super Blog Team-Up! In this volume, we super bloggers are teaming up to write about team-ups, whether they be

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Based on some of the other reviews I’ve been reading for the first two issues of the newly relaunched Spider-Man 2099 series, it appears that I’m in the minority in being completely captivated by writer Peter David’s slow burn set up and character work. I know that most people

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There’s a sophistication in how Peter David weaves humor into his stories that’s hard for me to articulate, but is unquestionably different than anything else I read on a weekly basis. Don’t get me wrong – the comic book marketplace is filled with funny books whether it’s the fast-paced

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The existence of a new Spider-Man 2099 series is one of those fun little paradoxes of the comic book industry in that I never truly realized a 20-plus year-old book still had enough of a following to warrant a new beginning, while simultaneously I’m sorta shocked it took so

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Demonstrating just how brilliant Peter David is able to weave together elements of comedy and tragedy, the 1988 Spectacular Spider-Man#134-136 arc “Return of the Sin-Eater” may just be the greatest Electro/Spider-Man story ever published, despite the fact that Electro is not technically the focal point of the arc. Instead,

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UPDATE: The second past of my Hobgoblin story is live on Comic Book Resources. As regular readers of this site should note, I have a bit of a Hobgoblin obsession. So much so that former Spider-book editor Jim Salicrup told me that I was acting like the backstory of

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Amazing Spider-Man is supposedly coming back in April. In other news, water is wet and every day of the week ends with the letter “y.” I’m obviously not shocked by the rampant rumors that leaked earlier this week, including a plausible looking Humberto Ramos-penciled image of a smiling, mask-less

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Fresh off last week’s “Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan” retrospection, I thought I’d jump back four issues for another mid-80s “one-and-done” with the Peter David-scripted Amazing Spider-Man #267, aka, “The Commuter Cometh.” It’s a comic that’s near and dear to me for a number of reasons – most notably

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Episode 20 of Superior Spider-Talk is here! This episode is another batch of interviews I collected during my experience at New York Comic Con in October. We’ve dubbed this one our NYCC “Writer’s Room” edition, and it features Matt Kindt (current writer on the Marvel Knights Spider-Man mini-series), Frad

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Between the immense crowds and just my general exhaustion of canvassing the Jacob Javits Center like a maniac the past two days, I cut short my Saturday session at New York Comic Con. But I come bearing news for Dan Slott fans, and also had an opportunity to speak

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