Bitter Old Bastard: Amazing Spider-Man #675 Review
Okay, nobody panic, but recently someone was wrong on the Internet! A couple days ago, J. Michael Straczynski posted a chart with a horrifying, Killington black diamond descent slope that he found at...
View ArticleNo One Can Hear You Thwip: Amazing Spider-Man #680 Review
The Amazing Spider-Man #680 is a buddy flick set in a zombie apocalypse occurring in space. If you walked into a movie studio executive’s office with that pitch, you’d be thrown out on your ass. Unless...
View ArticleShe Blinded Me With Something Other Than Science: Amazing Spider-Man #681 Review
Amazing Spider-Man #680 was good and fun enough that this week’s immediate followup of issue 681 was the first book I pulled off the stack yesterday, despite the cover that, if you remove the planet...
View ArticleTurning Back With No Turning Back: The Lizard Returns To Spider-Man
Thanks to the hectic nature of a weekend that’s contained St. Patrick’s Day, a visit with my tax guy where I learned my coming federal refund, and a trip to my local electronics retailer to piss that...
View ArticleTrojan Lizard – Review Of “The Amazing Spider-Man” #689
Well, True Believers, The Amazing Spider-Man debuted in theaters this week, and took an astounding $35 million in U.S. and Canadian box offices. In the movie, a young Peter Parker goes through his...
View ArticleThe Word After “Mother”: Creative Team Behind Marvel Now “Superior” Project...
Marvel has released a new one-word Marvel Now teaser… kinda. And, well, so much for that Miracleman theory. There’s still no specific word as to what Marvel’s “Superior” tease from a couple weeks back...
View ArticleThreat Or Menace: Slott on The Superior Spider-Man
So yeah – turns out they were talking about Spider-Man. Yesterday was the retailer’s breakfast at New York Comic Con where The Amazing Spider-Man writer Dan Slott announced what the hell “Superior”...
View ArticleElegy For A Bastard – Review Of Hellblazer #300
Yesterday, I bemoaned the fate of Hellblazer and the title’s termination at issue 300 before going on to say mostly nice things about a character that had been generally known as a cliche, prior to...
View ArticleReturn of The King: The Superior Spider-Man #31 Review
Editor’s Note: Yeah. That sounds just spoilery enough to be right. Let’s go. It’s been about 16 months since Doc Ock took over as Spider-Man, which has been just enough time to forget that Spider-Man...
View ArticleEpisode 52: The Mullet Apocalypse
It’s been three months since Marvel announced the Secret Wars crossover event, and since then, speculation has been flying about what it meant for the Marvel Universe: would it be a reboot, or just an...
View ArticleEpisode 89: Do You Want G’nort? Because That’s How You Get G’nort
Well, New York Comic Con was this week… and we were not at it. And what with the impending Home Office move, we were too busy to follow nearly as much of it as we would have liked. But still, we open...
View ArticleEpisode 102: In Blackest G’nort
It’s been a couple of weeks since DC Comics Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee tweeted their first teasers toward something called “Rebirth,” and since then, there has been, well, absolutely no...
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Episode 143: Purple Monkey Slashfic
As we move slowly into convention season, there is kind of a dearth of interesting comics news to work through some weeks. Oh sure, we could weigh in on Marvel’s comments at ComicsPRO that the reason...
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