Doc Ock is having real trouble controlling Spider-Man’s body…
Five bucks says Dan Slott puts this in The Superior Spider-Man.
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Review: Superior Spider-Man #1
That last page is going to calm a LOT of people down. With the seven hundred issue run of Amazing Spider-Man ended, Marvel has started this new odd hybrid Spider-Man in a new title, Superior Spider-Man, which premiered this week. Writer Dan Slott has presented one of the most controversial plot twists in comics in…
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UCHRONIC TALES: THE STUDIO SPECTER IS NOW AVAILABLE!
Cover Art: Mike Fyles New Pulp Author Peter Miller’s Uchronic Tales: The Studio Spectre is now available for ebooks at Amazon, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo, with more ebooks and a print version this week. Cover art by New Pulp Artist Mike Fyles. PRESS RELEASE: Uchronic Tales: The Studio Specter is now available! The…
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Superhero Movies and their Sad Perfect Badass Messiahs
Entertainment Weekly, of all places, presents one of the most thoughtful essays on superhero films and how– similar they’re all becoming, and even worse, how many other movies are aping them to great financial success and overall boredom. Superhero Movies have evolved to the point where three of the genre’s standard-bearers can embody radically different…
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Science Of Spider-Man
Spider-Man definitely has some unique tricks and abilities— super strength, wall-crawling, and a mysterious Spider-Sense— but do any of them stand up to scientific realities? The guys at ASAPScience take a look at how some of Spider-Man’s main attributes could legitimately happen, while others… not so much. And we’re not even going to discuss how…
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Review: “Amazing Spider-Man” #700 / “Avenging Spider-Man” #15.1
I already said in my discussion of Amazing Spider-Man 698 that I had utter faith in Dan Slott. Yes, the plot twist he’s spun here is, at the least, controversial. It proves, simply, that <a href=” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>he’s got what it takes to sell real estate. This is a story he’s been setting up for…
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Emily S. Whitten: Another Day, Another…Death Threat?!
Weâve talked about being disrespectful of the dead because you donât like their creative work. Now letâs talk about being disrespectful to the living. As has been reported elsewhere, some pages from Dan Slottâs Amazing Spider-Man #700 have been leaked to the Internet prior to its December 26 (tomorrow!) release date, including the big conclusion…
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The Point Radio: HOW STUFF WORKS Heads To TV
The popular podcast HOW STUFF WORKS moves to a new medium early in 2013 when the Science Channel launches the HSW television series. We talk to the guys behind it on how they are creating a hybrid reality show/situation comedy, plus doing an episode dedicated to comic book movies. Meanwhile, KOJACK gets closer to a…
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Sunday Cinema: What’s wrong with “The Amazing Spider-Man”?
Now that The Amazing Spider-Man is out on DVD and Blu-Ray, there is now a short video, “<a href=” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man In 2 Minutes Or Less”, that gives us 53 different Movie Crimes crimes throughout the film, like Peter Parker’s Comics-Code safe usage of the phrase “Mother Hubbard” and his…
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Emily S. Whitten: Spidey and Bats’ Infinite Playlist
“I can’t believe I agreed to this,” Bruce muttered, as he locked the front door of Wayne Manor. “Hey, Bats!” a cheerful voice exclaimed from behind. Bruce turned. “Peter,” he grumbled at the young man standing in the driveway. “I told you not to call me that when I’m out of the suit.” “Sorry, Bats!…
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So…Amazing Spider-Man #698…
I’m not going to show you the spoiler. I’m not going to link to the spoiler. I’m not going to allude to the events in the spoiler. I’m going to discuss the REACTION people are having to the spoiler. Now, Dan Slott has a Scorched Earth, Zero-Tolerance policy on spoilers for both this issue, and…
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John Ostrander says “Continuity Be Damned!”
Got The Avengers DVD on the day of its release and watched it all over again. My Mary and I enjoyed ourselves immensely and, from all indications, so did a lot of other people since its big screen release made more money than all but two other films. Yes, previous Marvel films (Iron Man 1…
