Superior Spider-Man Team-Up Archive

Sometimes, a big part of the fun in reading new comic books is that feeling of unexpected surprise when you open up an issue that you had little to no attachment to and you find yourself so emotionally satisfied by its contents. In the case of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up over

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When we entered the “Superior” era last year, one thing I thought would be explored with a bit more frequency is the idea that Peter Parker and Otto Octavius are two very similar characters that inevitably took divergent paths from each other as hero and villain thanks to one

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I’ve made no bones about the fact that I thought the Spider-Man team-up series du jour needed to move on from Chris Yost and find a new voice, and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #9 does just that by kicking off the Kevin Shinick era on the book (which I anticipate

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I’ve been awfully critical of the last few issues of Superior Spider-Man Team-Up, as I’ve found the series has had its struggles finding its voice within the larger Spider-verse of titles. Is it meant to be an addendum to Dan Slott’s larger Superior Spider-Man story, or its own unique

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When it comes to the Superior Spider-Man Team-Up series, I remain a critical outlier. The series has done very little to engage me since it officially transitioned from Avenging Spider-Man to Team-Up, and the most recent “Superior Six” storyline strikes me as a creative low point for the title.

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Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #4 had some interesting things to say socially and culturally, but I have some serious questions about whether or not it was actually a “good” Spider-Man comic. I tend not to get caught up in this idea that there’s a certain way for creators to “do

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There’s something almost schizophrenic about Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #3 in that there are elements about its story and structure that are a call back to the “olden” days of Spider-Man comics, while simultaneously functioning as an example what our modern-day “event-driven” sensibilities have done to the comic book industry.

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As outlandish as it may sound, the two-part “Sibling Rivalry” storyline that traversed Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2 and Scarlet Spider #20 this month was one of the best Spider-Man stories I’ve read in 2013 (still placing it below Superior Spider-Man’s #7-9 “Troubled Mind” arc, and it remains to be

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As the song goes, “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #1 may be promoted by Marvel as the “debut” issue of a new ongoing title, but the differences between this book and its predecessor, Avenging Spider-Man, are as superficial as it gets. The

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