We can thank Wesley Snipes for all of this. Wait, let me back up.

Fifteen years ago, comic book movies were in the crapper. There was the original Captain America movie that sucked beyond belief, the Batman franchise that Joel Shumacher raped to death, Punisher starring Dolph Lundgren and, of course, The Fantasic Four, Read the rest of this entry »

When Marvel Comics started dominating the comics scene in the 60s, it was a fresh alternative to the characters found in DC Comics. While the latter had heroes that were aliens and billionaires, Marvel’s heroes were high school students, professors and doctors with normal day jobs and families to feed. The publisher has made a conscious effort to have its characters and storylines reflect current events (for example, X-Men was a reaction to the Civil Rights movement). Keeping up with this ideology, Marvel has decided to bring the recession into its pages.

In another reminder of why journalism is a dead-end career choice, Peter Parker is about to lose his job at the Daily Bugle. In the next few months, The Amazing Spider-Man will focus on Parker trying to save the city while struggling to pay rent and find a job.

Spider-Man can’t find a damn job. The rest of us don’t have a shot.

Keep your head up, though, Spidey. There are tons of unpaid internships out there for you to get valuable work experience while receiving no compensation whatsoever to help fund your living conditions in the most expensive city in the free world.

I’m kinda freaking out here. My world was shaken to the core yesterday when I found out that Disney bought Marvel Comics. The initial reaction was shock, but now it’s time to try to decipher what this means for my awesome addiction to comic books and everything Marvel. Read the rest of this entry »

TSS never steers you wrong, fam.

How many of you listened and bought the Obama issue of Amazing Spider-Man? If you did, give yourself a high five because these issues are going for upwards of $85 on eBay. There are currently four versions of the book floating around with any variation making some money online. Read the rest of this entry »

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I’ve gotten about five emails over the last few days letting me know about Obama’s appearance in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man #583 on Wednesday. I’m gonna say this to you all because I love you like play cousins:

Go. Buy. This. Comic.

I don’t say this because I’m expecting some sort of literary masterpiece. In fact, I’m expecting a pretty cheesy issue given the shitty state of the Spider-Man comic in the last year (including a terrible story in which he made a deal with the devil to forget Mary Jane ever existed…ugh) and the proposed plot.

However, you still need Read the rest of this entry »