INDEX

LATEST POSTS

THANK YOU FOR THE DAYS: Steven Attewell, In Memoriam.

2023: THE YEAR THAT WASN’T

DEEP-DIVES — DC #500: “To Kill A Legend”

Re-Examining Spider-Man

00 – INTRODUCTION
01 – The Brevoort Manifesto
02 – Data Analysis & Publication History
— MAIN POST: How Teenage was Teen Spidey Really?
— Quantifying Comics: Continuity Census
03 – Teenage Origins & Cultural History
04 – Who Created Spidey?
05 – 21st Century Teenage Resurgence (Two-Part Post)
— PART 1: Teenage Wasteland
— PART 2: “I Can See For Miles“

06 – Rumors and Unwritten Doctrines
— MAIN POST: Illusions Behind the ‘Illusion of Change’
— Ditko Rumors: Serialized Ditko – The Green Goblin Mystery
— Ditko Rumors: Ditko and High School – The History of an Office Rumor
— Ditko Rumors: Ditko & Rand: The Objectivist Spider-Man?
07 – Violence in Spider-Man
— People Who Died: Character Deaths Between AF#15 to ASM#122
— MAIN POST: Deconstructing Violence

08 – The Mary Jane Watson Story
— MAIN POST: The Autonomous Mary Jane
— Mary Jane on the March: Her Rise to Fame
09 – Of Hobgoblins & Foolish Consistencies
10 – Lost Futures

SPIDER-MAN AT THE MOVIES

• ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE (2023): Spider-Man and the Ship of Theseus. Discussion with Harry Thornton
• A MILESTONE CELEBRATION: Discussing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) on its Five-Year Anniversary with Kaitou D. Kid.
  • Part One
  • Part Two
  • Part Three
• SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME
  • Notes: On the Spider-Man: No Way Home trailer.
  • Notes: On Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) – First Act Spoilers only
  • Grand Spoiler Discussion: PART 1 – Spider-Man: NWH with Kaitou D. Kid.
  • Grand Spoiler Discussion: PART 2 – Spider-Man: NWH with Kaitou D. Kid.

LIVE-ACTION RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW

• INTRODUCTION
  • Spider-Man 1 (2002)
  • Spider-Man 2 (2004)
  • Spider-Man 3 (2007)
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 1 (2012)
  • The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)
• RANKINGS (including NWH, with Spoilers)

Notes & Reviews

TV

• WHAT IS THE FUTURE? – Reviving Futurama and The Venture Bros in 2023.
• RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW: Batman: The Animated Series Thirty Years Later
  WITH KAITOU D. KID
• NOTES: On House of the Dragon Season 1 (2022)
• NOTES: On The Sandman Season 1 (2022)
• NOTES: On The Boys S3 (2022)
• NOTES: On Moon Knight (2022)

BOOKS

BOOK REVIEW: Illuminations (2022) by Alan Moore

BOOK REVIEW: “Steve Ditko in the 1960s” edited by J. Ballmann

NOTES: On ASM#1 (2022) by Wells/JRJR/Hanna/Menyz.

Notes: On Jonathan Hickman’s 2019-2021 run on X-Men.

Notes: On Nick Spencer’s 2018-2021 run on Amazing Spider-Man

Book Review:“All of the Marvels” by Douglas Wolk (2021)

MOVIES

• The Artist as Raccoon and Mad Scientist: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
• Review: Beau is Afraid (2023)
• Ranking Batman: Movies, Scenes, Costumes etc.
• Retrospective Review: BATMAN RETURNS (1992)
• Notes: On DUNE: Part One (2021)
• Notes: On DUNE: Part Two (2024)
• NOTES: On NOPE (2022)
• NOTES: On THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (2022).
• The Batman (2022)
  [WITH KAITOU D. KID]
  • GRAND SPOILER DISCUSSION: PART ONE
  • GRAND SPOILER DISCUSSION: PART TWO

• END OF YEAR 2021: Lists, Surveys, Resolutions
• VALENTINE’S DAY 2022: Love Stories in Superhero Media.
• END OF YEAR 2022: Lists, Surveys, Resolutions
• HALLOWEEN 2023: Horror Recommendations
• END OF YEAR 2023: The Year That Wasn’t

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

OP-EDS

• JAZZY JOHN ROMITA (1930-2023): A Tribute
• Joe Quesada: Our Reagan?
• First Post – “The Needle Scratches and the Frame Freezes”
• Speculations: On the Origins of One More Day

MOOREWATCH

• Commentary and Criticism: Alan Moore on Spider-Man
• The Paradox of Success: Rorschach & Mr. A

DEEP-DIVES

• ASM#246: “The Daydreamers”
• DETECTIVE COMICS#500: “To Kill A Legend”

Adapting Comics

• Cinema Versus Comics: Towards A More Cinematic Universe
• Uncast and Unmade: The Spider-Man films that Never Came To Pass.
• Raimi’s Goblin Outfit: Adapting Costumes from Comics to Live-Action Movies.
• Comics vs. Franchise
  • “The Bandwagon Fallacy”
  • “Refutation”
  • “Insufficiency”
  • “Foreshortening”
  • “Presumption”

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

(Likely) Influences

• Three Likely Influences: J. Jonah Jameson
• Three (or More) Likely Influences: Peter Parker
• Four Likely Influences: Norman Osborn & The Green Goblin
• Three (or More) Likely Influences: Doctor Victor von Doom
• Three (Or More) Likely Influences: Mary Jane Watson

Guilty Conscience

• Genesis of J. Jonah Jameson: Spider-Man’s Guilty Conscience
  • Timeline: First Interactions of Jameson and Peter Parker
  • Recommendations: Touchstone Comics for Jameson
• Doctor Victor Von Doom: The Guilty Conscience of the American Dream
  • Doom’s Tears: Remote Villainy and Real Violence
• Joker’s Revenge: Conscience of the Bat

Spider-Man Community

• INTERVIEW: Aaron Cobb
• Interview with Robert MacQuarrie – January 2022
  — Part One
  — Part Two
• Interview with David Walton – February 2022
  — Part One
  — Part Two
  — Part Three
• Potter’s Field: Interview with Harry Thornton
• STEVEN ATTEWELL, IN MEMORIAM

TUMBLR ROUNDUP

• #01: January 03-2022 to January 23-2022
• #02: January 28-2022 to March 15-2022
• #03: March 15, 2022 to April 19, 2022
• #04: April 27 2022 to May 09 2022
• #05: May 12 2022 to June 25 2022
• #06: July 06 2022 to August 10 2022
• #07: August 14 2022 to August 28 2022
• #08: August 29 2022 to November 17 2022
• #09: January 12, 2023 to January 26, 2023
• #10: June 01, 2023 to October 05, 2023