Peter David Archive

Taking a cue from the current pages of Superior Spider-Man #1, for my latest Gimmick or Good? column at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I take a look at 1992’s Spider-Man 2099 #1. This red foil book was the first installment in Marvel’s 2099 line and featured a

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I was not one of those Spider-Man fans clamoring for the return of Miguel O’Hara, aka Spider-Man 2099, when Amazing/Superior Spider-Man writer Dan Slott first baited people about the character’s modern-era resurrection with an “accidental” tweet to artist Ryan Stegman last year. Despite not reading the series in nearly

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For the past eight weeks, I’ve looked at a series of comic books that initiated one of the greatest and most clumsily handled mysteries in the history of Spider-Man. There are tons of scattershot accounts of how the identity of the Hobgoblin was supposed to pay off – including

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Amazing Spider-Man #245 reminds us of a period of the Hobgoblin’s existence where his secret identity was not the source of such hand-wringing and controversy. As he did for the character’s three previous appearances in ASM, writer Roger Stern plants small clues along with some serious pieces of misdirection

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Today, I provided the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization with another injection of the Webhead with my analysis on Spider-Man’s “no kill code,” and how the Superior Spider-Man series has thrown 50 years of tradition and history out the window in favor of a hero who’s not afraid to

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