A new face of 1968 — and a new Earth too!
Debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #56 (Stan Lee, John Romita), Captain George Stacy is an excellent example of something I blogged about a few weeks back, that major changes to comics …
Tag: Spider-Man
Do You See What I See?
When reading a comic or watching a movie, sometimes you get the impression the characters are seeing something different to what you’re seeing.
I looked at DC in September of ’66; now here’s Marvel
Back at the start of April I took a look at some of DC’s books from September of ’66. I wanted to follow up immediately with a Marvel-centered post but …
Ditko, departed
In the summer of 1966, Marvel Comics suddenly went Steve Ditko-less. I’ve read a variety of reasons — money, locking horns with Stan Lee, fundamental disagreements about the series’ direction …
Does this mean Aunt May could beat me up? “Ordinary” people in comic books
A couple of years back I was reading a comics thread online in which someone posed a question: are even ordinary people in the MU and DCU superhuman by real-world …
He’s undead, Jim, but not as we know it: Morbius, the Living Vampire
As a teen I was never much interested in buying Marvel’s Bronze Age horror comics, with the exception of Son of Satan. I don’t regret that choice — I only …
Thoughts on the New Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer
So the second Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer just dropped, and, like any self-respecting comics geek, I’ve watched and rewatched this thing about a half a dozen times now, trying to decode what the final movie is going to be like from three minutes of mostly new footage. Here are my predictions.