Spider-Man

By conor@ifanboy.com And what about the rest of the staff? What are they buying? Dave, Jim, Paul, Mike and Sonia. This is very much a meat and potatoes kind of week.  Lots of good, solid reads.  Not a lot to get overly excited about except Scalped and Pax Romana and Amazing Spider-Man.

By josh@ifanboy.com I can't recommend this TP but the little vignettes about the city life (SHIELD, the local police, the Daily Bugle etc.) are nice and I enjoyed them, so maybe pick up a trade of Sensational Spider-Man if you're interested in that sort of thing - I am and I'll buy a trade soon. It's the 2000s Sensat...

By jim@ifanboy.com Hey, Reed," Spidey says on page five, climbing through a Baxter Building window. "I had this problem the other day I was hoping you could--" “Security!” Reed shouts, stretching to slam a red button on the wall. “An unregistered superhuman has breached the Baxter Building defenses!”

By conor@ifanboy.com Second, I was at my shop the other day and saw a comic called Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane, and I said to myself, boy that sounds like it could be totally awesome, if it were called Spider-Man Loves Black Cat, because a Spider-Man that loves Mary Jane, a.k.a Yoko Ono, is a Spider-Man who is not near...

By paul@ifanboy.com And then there's the gnawing feeling in my stomach that I can't shake.  Everyone knows that Dan Didio has been gunning for Dick Grayson since Infinite Crisis, not seeing a need for him in the DC Universe.  Josh has called Dick Grayson Didio's "Spider-Man marriage".  I hate, hate, hate,  HATE...

By josh@ifanboy.com Comics: 00:12:40 - Captain America: Operation Zero Point features a hard talkin', authentic sounding Lower East Side WW2 Cap.  00:29:38 - A new favorite Spider-Man artist is discovered as David Lafuente Garcia owns the art on Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3.

By ron@ifanboy.com So when you head to the comic store - make sure you pick up Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3.  Even if you don't read Ultimate Spider-Man, just to see an up and coming artist and be able to tell people that you heard about him back before he got huge. Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3 Interior Art

By gordon@ifanboy.com 1. Spider-Man was actually a decent movie.  Sure it had some flaws…Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst... not enough Willem Dafoe…but in terms of story it wasn’t bad.  I remember getting excited about it, going to see it and still some maintaining excitement.  I even remember being excited when I got t...

By josh@ifanboy.com The world of mainstream superhero comics is one that relies on a good deal of repetition and suspension of disbelief, in order to maintain a status quo, all without making it look that way. Yet, from time to time, there have been decisions made by those at Marvel and DC which actually did move...

By jim@ifanboy.com Of course, from another angle it still has some appeal to me as an adult. The Man always on Hulk's case. Hulk always being hassled. Hulk just want to be left alone. Hulk just want ten minutes of quiet to check e-mail. It's like looking into a mirror.)

By jim@ifanboy.com Yours, Jim Jim Mroczkowski can't help wondering if his wife will read this and get jealous of Marvel Team-Up #74. "Oh, you want dinner? Well, why don't you have Marvel Team-Up #74 make you dinner?" etc. Apology gift ideas and/or therapist referrals can be submitted via Twitter or Jimski.com.

By josh@ifanboy.com by Josh FlanaganDid this week's comics prove that the world was not in fact flat, yet ultimately fail in finding a passage to the Indies?  Did this week's comics give birth to a new age of democracy, or just disperse smallpox on the indigenous peoples?  It's a lot of weight for new comics to d...

By conor@ifanboy.com Valuable comic book collectible is top prize in contest to promote Lee’s new book, Election Daze. Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee will swoop into the spotlight on November 4 when he picks the winner of the “Amazing ‘Election Daze’ Lottery.”