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Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1 #67

Stuart Warren — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:00:02 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1 #67" title="Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1 #67" style="float:left;" />Last Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non-sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #13 Uses Art and Dialogue to Add Depth to Its Characters

Logan Dalton — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 18:00:02 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #13 Uses Art and Dialogue to Add Depth to Its Characters" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #13 Uses Art and Dialogue to Add Depth to Its Characters" style="float:left;" />There are no masks, tights, or supervillains in Ultimate Spider-Man #13. There isn’t a fight scene. No one gets hurt. The whole comic is about a teenager having a conversation with his girlfriend and aunt.… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #10-12 is a Coming of Age Story with Tights, Crime Lords, and High School Girls

Logan Dalton — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:00:39 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #10-12 is a Coming of Age Story with Tights, Crime Lords, and High School Girls" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #10-12 is a Coming of Age Story with Tights, Crime Lords, and High School Girls" style="float:left;" />The coming of age story is one of the most enduring story types in Western literature. From Telemachus in the Odyssey to Huckleberry Finn and more recently the boy wizard Harry Potter, readers young and… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #8-9 Uses a Variety of Character Perspectives to Show Spider-Man’s Development As a Hero

Logan Dalton — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 11:00:43 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #8-9 Uses a Variety of Character Perspectives to Show Spider-Man’s Development As a Hero" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #8-9 Uses a Variety of Character Perspectives to Show Spider-Man’s Development As a Hero" style="float:left;" />After the editorial mandated origin story, Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Bagley get to cut loose and tell their first official Ultimate Spider-Man story. The name of the story arc is “Learning Curve”, which signifies… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #5-7 Has an Abrupt Ending, but Transforms Peter Parker into Spider-Man

Logan Dalton — Wed, 02 Oct 2013 11:00:16 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #5-7 Has an Abrupt Ending, but Transforms Peter Parker into Spider-Man" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #5-7 Has an Abrupt Ending, but Transforms Peter Parker into Spider-Man" style="float:left;" />Unlike the previous four issues which have played extremely fast and loose with Spider-Man’s origin in Amazing Fantasy #15, Ultimate Spider-Man is surprisingly faithful to Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s story. The plot is virtually… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #4 Uses Language to Explore Peter Parker and Spider-Man

Logan Dalton — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:00:08 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #4 Uses Language to Explore Peter Parker and Spider-Man" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #4 Uses Language to Explore Peter Parker and Spider-Man" style="float:left;" />Ultimate Spider-Man #4 primarily consists of conversations, inner monologues, and characters running away from each other. No one throws a single punch. Some of the events, like Peter’s foray into wrestling and arguments with Uncle… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #2-3 Reveals the Perils of Power without Responsibility

Logan Dalton — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 11:00:47 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #2-3 Reveals the Perils of Power without Responsibility" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #2-3 Reveals the Perils of Power without Responsibility" style="float:left;" />Unlike the first double-sized issue of Ultimate Spider-Man, the second and third issues move at a much slower clip. At the end of Ultimate Spider-Man #2, Norman Osborn tells his scientists that he is testing… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Introduces Peter Parker, his “Fathers,” and Hints at a Rich Supporting Cast

Logan Dalton — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:00:54 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Introduces Peter Parker, his “Fathers,” and Hints at a Rich Supporting Cast" title="Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Introduces Peter Parker, his “Fathers,” and Hints at a Rich Supporting Cast" style="float:left;" />Ultimate Spider-Man #1 is one of the most important comics issues of the 21st century. The series was the brainchild of Marvel publisher Bill Jemas, who wanted to create a Marvel universe that was accessible… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man: Power and Responsibility: Part 2

Andrew Presnal — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:04:03 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #2-7 The second issue is titled “Growing Pains”. It could have been called “The Longest Day” and fit just as well. It starts off with Peter in class. Coming down with the shakes,… [more]

Ultimate Spider-Man: Power and Responsibility: Part 1

Andrew Presnal — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 16:59:04 +0000

Ultimate Spider-Man #1: “Powerless” I’ve got a confession to make: I’ve never been a big Spider-Man follower before. Yes, I did see the movies, the sequel literally brought me to tears, and I consider it… [more]

The Art of Intrinsic Failure: Epic, The Cubs, and Some Reviews

Bryan Miller — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 14:58:09 +0000

Salutations, and welcome to another New Comics Day. Well, okay, not really. New Comics Day plus a few days. Sadly, New Comics Day last week was spent in mourning after watching the Cubs blow it… [more]

Sex Scenes, Orson Welles, and Other Matters

Bryan Miller — Tue, 07 Oct 2003 14:48:16 +0000

Greetings, and welcome to another edition of New Comics Day. As usual, New Comics Day winds down at O’Malley’s Pub on Lincoln where the beer is cheap but the comics reviewers are cheaper. This week,… [more]

Comics Published on 2 April 2003

Matt Martin — Fri, 04 Apr 2003 17:57:31 +0000

Wolverine: X-Isle #1 Marvel Comics – Bruce Jones (w); Jorge Lucas (a) Well, another day, another Marvel mini-series by Bruce Jones. The last one was Captain America: What Price Glory? and from what I read,… [more]

Comics Published on 15 January 2003

Matt Martin — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:37:20 +0000

Optic Verve makes its triumphant (or generally unnoticed, depending on your point of view) return to the Internet, having taken the holidays off due to lack of Internet connectivity and a general plague of viruses… [more]

Comics Published on 4 December 2002

Matt Martin — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:57:01 +0000

I’m currently snowed in, so badly so that I almost didn’t go to work on Wednesday to get new comics at all. However, the time cooped up in the house should allow for a) lots… [more]

Comics Published on 20 November 2002

Matt Martin — Thu, 21 Nov 2002 15:30:01 +0000

Daredevil #39 Marvel Comics – Brian Michael Bendis (w); Manuel Gutierrez (a) My goodness… this was absolutely fantastic. Daredevil is a book that’s been hit and miss for me over the past six months or… [more]

Comics Published on 2 October 2002

Matt Martin — Mon, 07 Oct 2002 15:29:03 +0000

Uncanny X-Men #414 Marvel Comics — Chuck Austen (w); Sean Phillips (p/i) After a while you run out of ways to say the same good things about the same books. I know that problem is… [more]