A Spider-Man Podcast
When it was announced that the second Amazing Spider-Man story arc featuring superstar artist Stuart Immonen’s pencils would be a tie-in story to the “Secret Empire” event, I’m sure there
The story of Spider-Man has always been one of Peter Parker’s life being suddenly interrupted by the world’s need for Spider-Man to save the day. Whether he’s on a date
Spider-Man stories, by and large, tend to be at their best when they’re focused on characters first, and there is never any shortage of opportunities to find a particular character,
While the unabashed nonsense that is Marvel’s fetish for plodding, overarching, “universe- changing” events continues with Civil War II, many a title gets sucked in to service that narrative. These kinds
I’ve made no secret that Civil War II held zero interest for me as a reader, but when the outcome has now been revealed in the two (!) new Iron Man series
Cards on the table: I’m not interested in Civil War II and was dreading the plot gymnastics orchestrated to drag Miles into Marvel’s latest event. That’s why I was pleasantly surprised to
If you scoffed at Peter Parker’s rather immediate adoption of the mysterious, villainous-looking, cloned organ-making company New U in the previous issue of Amazing Spider-Man, then writer Dan Slott and fill-in penciller R.B.
I’m always fearful of reading stories specifically billed as the prelude to any major event story in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man, though perhaps my apprehension is a bit misguided. Sure,
As a Miles fan, I have good reason to be wary of line-wide crossover events. I’d found it frustrating to see the momentum of interesting (and often emotionally intense) plot
As a critic and a fan of comic books, I find it hard to read a story about my favorite character only to find that I dislike it, then have to write a
