Superior Foes Spotlight Archive

Editor’s Note: My real life schedule has been in a state of chaos the past two weeks so we’re going to run the final installment of my Superior Foes Spotlight today. Starting next week I will be attempting to get through all of the new releases I have not

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This next entry in my little miniseries of spotlights on Superior Foes of Spider-Man characters is an undeniable cheat. I wanted to write about something involving the Beetle, but Janice Lincoln, the female iteration of the character (dubbed “Lady Beetle” in many of my posts) never actually interacted with

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In addition to completely upending the Amazing Spider-Man status quo by mystically dissolving the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane, what I think I best remember the “Brand New Day” era of Spider-Man for was the number of new villains introduced by the rotating team of Spidey scribes. It

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Over the years, I’ve occasionally referred to the litany of losers and D-list villains introduced in the Spider-Man universe during the late 1970s/early 1980s as Spidey’s “Bronze Age Bums.” While there were a couple of guys who were created during this period that had some longevity like Jackal and

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With Superior Foes of Spider-Man ending later this month, I thought I would write a couple of posts about storylines that prominently feature some members of the “Fantastic Five” (Boomerang, Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle and Overdrive). I know that may not make a whole lot of sense since “Spider-Verse” is

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