Wizard Archive

As we enter this period “Reign of the Super Blog Team-Up,” I’ve found myself pondering over all of the fits and starts my quest to collect every issue of Amazing Spider-Man experienced. Collecting nearly 800 issues of one comic book series was never a truly linear quest. It probably

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After building up the most non-Carnage Carnage story in the character’s history, Marvel had a change of heart (or “chickened out” depending on your opinion of Mr. Cletus Kasady) in the fifth and final part of its Superior Carnage mini-series, returning the psychotic symbiote to its status quo in

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The penultimate issue of the Superior Carnage mini-series gives readers what might end up being the Superior Spider-Man’s most engaging confrontation since this new status quo began in January – Spider Ock vs. the Wizard. (And I’ll take “sentences I never thought I would write,” for $1,000, Alex). In

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I’ve spent so many years being unhappy with the characterization of Carnage, I haven’t really stopped to think about what I would actually want to see in the character that would make me happy. Going back to the days of the overly-long, ridiculously shallow “Maximum Carnage” crossover, I’ve thought

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I know I had my reservations about making Carnage the spotlight of yet another Marvel mini-series, but I was shocked all the same after reading Superior Carnage #2 and seeing how the serial-killing symbiote was being used more as a plot device rather than as the star of a

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Oh, Carnage – you and I got such a complicated relationship. Actually, it’s not complicated at all. I’ve always been on the record as not being a fan. But I also understand there’s a contingent of the fan base that LOVE you. A lot of them are the same

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