Spider News: Upcoming ASM Cover Promotes Local Comic Shops
The variant cover “craze” that has seemingly swept the comic book industry the past few years is not typically my cup of tea, but yesterday’s announcement that Marvel was going to use the front of...
View ArticleSpider-News: New ASM Covers Make Me Groan
You hear me talk a lot about comic book industry gimmicks around here and why not? I’ve been collecting on and off for more than 20 years, including witnessing first-hand how speculators attempting to...
View ArticleSpider News: The Massive Spider Island Story Coming
Marvel unveiled a bunch of details last week about their next mega-event “Spider Island.” The storyline – which focuses on an infestation in New York City where everybody is given spider-powers – looks...
View ArticleSpider News: Spider-Man in Vietnam
It’s been a bit of a chaotic week here in my life, where other obligations are essentially reducing my brain to mush. So I apologize for the lack of a comic remembrance this week. However, there’s been...
View ArticleSpider News: The Case Against Bread, Circuses and Musicals
No, you didn’t just inadvertently wander onto the home page for playbill.com. But since the Spider-Man musical, “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” is making its long-awaited (and stalled) debut tonight...
View ArticleSpider News: A New Spider Series in November
While DC reboots every single one of their flagship comic books, Marvel announced earlier this week that they were going to introduce a new Spider-Man centric series in November entitled Avenging...
View ArticleKeeping Politics Away from My Spidey
There’s not a lot in my life that’s managed to remain apolitical, but I would like to think my love of comic books and Spider-Man is one of last things that has more or less remained untainted by the...
View ArticleNews About the Fantastic Four Makes Me Skeptical
Sure, let’s just put Spidey in ANOTHER series for people to buy. There are numerous things about Marvel’s newly minted FF series that have made me skeptical, all of which have nothing to do with the...
View ArticleAmazing Spider-Man No More? And a Bookend to the Chase
I know how ridiculously absent I’ve been with my posting lately but given the recent turn of events related to the subject of my chase, Amazing Spider-Man, I thought it was time for me to make a...
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