It’s official: Spider-Man beats Batman. Well, when it comes to auction, that is.
This is what happens when Techland goes to the comic book store: we end up discussing what we picked up. This week, Graeme McMillan, Evan Narcisse and Douglas Wolk talk about the first issues of Jennifer Blood and Silver Surfer, as well as Amazing Spider-Man #654.1.
The Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has not technically opened yet; it won’t do that until at least March 15. But a bunch of newspaper critics have weighed in today, and their assessment is… well, not good. To put it mildly.
It was a big year in tech: Apple unveiled the iPad (remember how much slack they got for the name? Now it’s a part of our everyday language). Google’s Nexus One launched (and failed), but the android operating system and app market blew up big. Facebook had lots of issues with privacy (but still managed [...]
Comic-book scholars and creators often refer to superhero stories as modern-day myths. Like the fables of ancient civilizations, the adventures of larger-than-life figures like Superman, the Hulk or Swamp Thing can be used as lens to help us understand the world and ourselves. Superhero characters can be rich metaphors, whether it’s for an immigrant achieving [...]
Marvel has released a handful of teasers this week for some sort of event that’s happening in April. “Do you fear… tomorrow?” is the caption on the first image, which shows Spider-Man in front of a tableau of scary newspaper headlines and a Homeland Security travel-alert color chart on red alert. (Never mind that the [...]
Given all of the problems its had to deal with so far, what were the odds that Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark‘s opening preview night went off without a hitch? Let’s ask the New York Post’s Michael Riedel, who was there:
You’d be forgiven for thinking, at various times over the last year or so, that the Marvel Comics/Sony musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was some kind of strange urban myth instead of a real thing. Directed by The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor, music by U2 and so dangerous that a stuntman broke his wrists [...]
The most widely circulated American comic book this week isn’t anything you can buy in comics stores: it’s Amazing Spider-Man, You’re Hired!, a skinny one-shot included with Wednesday’s New York Daily News, and distributed for free on Marvel’s iPhone/iPad app. (It doesn’t seem to be available on the Web, though.) Written by Warren Simons, drawn [...]
Spider-Girl #1 comes out this week–the first issue of an ongoing series by Paul Tobin and Clayton Henry, starring Anya Corazon, the young superheroine formerly known as Araña. But she’s far from the first woman to wear a variation on Spider-Man’s costume. Here’s a quick history of the half-dozen-or-so Spider-Women and Spider-Girls who’ve appeared over [...]
As Doctor Octopus, the Green Goblin or even the Rocket Racer could tell you, it’s not really the smartest move to make an enemy of Spider-Man. Apparently, that’s not a lesson that’s made its way to Mohammad Reza Naghdi. Naghdi, the commander of the Basij paramilitary force in Iran, has declared that Marvel Comics’ webcrawler [...]
