Spider-Verse Archive

I honestly haven’t been a huge fan of Spider-Man 2099 since the “Spider-Verse” tie-ins started a couple of months ago. I could just be projecting, but the awkward insertion of this storyline feels reminiscent to what inevitably doomed Peter David’s run on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man a few years ago.

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Dating back to the dawn of the “Marvel Age of Comics” in the 1960s, the self-proclaimed “House of Ideas,” has always prided itself of the scope and the epic-nature of its stories. The Fantastic Four weren’t just fighting random alien invaders on a month-to-month basis, but were instead intrigued

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Dennis Hopeless’s take on Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman, continues to be the series I believe I have no business liking as much as I do. As I mentioned in my write-up on last month’s Spider-Woman #1, I’ve never been much of a fan of Jessica as a character and always

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I still wish that the short little vignettes we’ve been getting in the first two issues of Spider-Verse Team-Up would somehow play a more consequential role in the larger “Spider-Verse” narrative, but I also can’t deny that this miniseries continues to deliver fun and entertaining stories that further flesh

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Since taking over as the full time writer of Spider-Man in 2010, Dan Slott has always had a penchant for thinking big and for not being afraid to break a few dozen eggs while making his comic book omelet. But while this devil may care attitude (especially as it

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While it was certainly an entertaining premise to set the recently rebooted Spider-Man 2099 series in the present day, thereby making it a pseudo “fish out of water” story with a unique twist thanks to Peter David’s wittiness, it felt all too inevitable that the series would eventually send

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Something that long-time comic book fans seem to universally despise is the constant rebooting of series. However, I’ve come to view the New 52s and the Marvel Now’s of the industry as a bit of a necessary evil. Are they sales driven ploys designed to get people to gobble

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While it still leaps and bounds better than some of the issues we were getting prior to the onset of “Spider-Verse,” I can’t help but think of Amazing Spider-Man #10 as a bit of a step backwards in the quality department – especially when compared to the wonderful opening

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The first issue of Spider-Verse, a two-part tie-in to the current Spider-Man event “Spider-Verse” (you see, this is why I distinguish book names with italics and storyline names with “quotations”) is the pink bubble gum of comics books – a sweet burst of flavor and indulgence that is ultimately

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Similar to what took place during “Spider Island” in 2011, Marvel announced a few months ago that there would be a string of spin-off miniseries and tie-in issues connected to its big “Spider-Verse” event. While none of these comics outside of the Rick Remender Venom series proved to be

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