Tag: spider-man

  • REVIEW: Amazing Spider-Man #1 (2018)

    REVIEW: Amazing Spider-Man #1 (2018)

    “With great power must also come great responsibility.” That singular phrase is what writer Nick Spencer and artist Ryan Ottley were entrusted with when they took their respective torches from Dan Slott and his menagerie of collaborators during his run on Marvel’s flagship masked hero. This undertaking held a great deal of significance for “webheads”…

  • Top 5 Comic Book Callbacks in Avengers: Infinity War

    Top 5 Comic Book Callbacks in Avengers: Infinity War

    Geeks + Gamers is once again spreading its wings. As with Doctor Strange, I appeared on the Fresh Geek Context podcast to discuss Avengers: Infinity War (among other topics) with hosts Jace and Josh. It’s a great show that talks about all sorts of fun, geeky subjects, and you should consider listening and subscribing here…

  • The Top 10 Best PlayStation 1 Games

    The Top 10 Best PlayStation 1 Games

    For a moment, think back twenty years with me. Tamagotchis had taken the world by storm, the words “Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! Pass it!” were stuck in everyone’s head, and Sony was in the midst of creating one of the world’s most iconic systems: the PlayStation 1. As the world’s first CD-ROM based…

  • Give and Take in Superhero Cinema

    Give and Take in Superhero Cinema

    The other day I was talking to a friend and he brought up the idea that there’s no such thing as a perfect movie, arguing that the best films have flaws that enhance them rather than sully them. In principle, I disagree with this (a Hitchens quote comes to mind: “It’s only true if you…