Spider-Verse Archive

There’s still ONE MORE chapter of “Spider-Verse” to discuss, so Dan and I are back to let you know if the “epilogue” was any better than the preceding 950 chapters in our latest installment of Amazing Spider-Talk. Check out episode 15 of the podcast over at superiorspidertalk.com where we

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The first issue that connected to “Spider-Verse” — a prologue published in Superior Spider-Man #32 — was published last August, more than six months ago. Just looking at that sentence is difficult to believe, not necessarily because six months is a very long time for a modern comic book

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There’s a scene early on in Amazing Spider-Man #14 that speaks volumes as to why I’ve had so many problems with “Spider-Verse,” not only in terms of its construction and execution, but also its theme and its message. Peter Parker’s “plan,” which was apparently to just show up at

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One of the things I’ve heard repeatedly from people who are fans of “Spider-Verse” is that I need to be more forgiving of its narrative flaws because it’s “fun.” It’s “fun” that all of these different Spiders from around the Multiverse are showing up and having an impact. It’s

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Going back to one of the very first installments of “Spider-Verse” (which, believe it or not, took place in August), the character of Karn – an Inheritor who appeared to be the black sheep of this totem-hunting family – struck me as someone who would likely be a key

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Let me pose a philosophical question for you: if Spider-Woman #3 was published and no one read it, would it make any difference on the larger narrative for “Spider-Verse?” Yes boys and girls, cranky Mark is back with another installment of “bemoaning the last three months of my life

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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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The best Spider-Man podcast on the internet is back with a new episode. Swing over to superiorspidertalk.com and listen to episode 13 of Amazing Spider-Talk in which Dan and I discuss Amazing Spider-Man #13, the implications of this Spring’s Secret Wars event on the Marvel Universe, and the classic

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I have grown increasingly cranky regarding the state of “Spider-Verse” over the past month or so, finding the narrative to be lacking any forward thrust and the tie-ins to be either superfluous or overindulgent. So I was obviously quite curious about what was awaiting me this week with Amazing

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People who checked out the last couple of new issue write-ups that I’ve done understand that I’ve turned fast and hard against “Spider-Verse,” but if you really want to go back and mark the moment where I first saw a chink in the armor, it was with the publication

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