So I picked up the first prequel comic to the Marvel’s Avengers video game coming out this May. It centered around Iron Man trying to figure out who stole his operating system and was selling it to criminals. The real takeaway, however, was that this is our first real look into the world in which […]
Read More →So the last time I paid $8.00 for a comic book, it was December of 2012, and Spider-Man died! Trepidatious is probably an understatement on my state of mind when picking up Amazing Spider-Man #25, the first milestone comic in Spencer’s run, and slapped with a $8.00 price tag. “60 pages of Spider-Mania!!!” the front […]
Read More →You know that awkward moment when Marvel’s been around so long that some of their “What If?” stories start making it into the canon? Let’s take, for instance, what if Captain America had been elected President of the United States? You mean, like in the Ultimate Comics United We Stand arc? How about this one: […]
Read More →Spider-Gwen vol. 1 and 2 were weird. Let’s face it, they were. My best friend Eileen told me when she first saw Into the Spider-Verse that she squealed with excitement when Gwen came onto the scene. She said that even though she’d never read a Spider-Gwen comic, she had been aware of her character and […]
Read More →Y’all reading that new Miles Morales? Yeah, so TL;DR, Miles’s girlfriend’s cousin got roped into a ‘mind controlled kids’ operation that also happened to rope in Rhino’s niece. So Rhino and Miles teamed up to stop it only to find out that Tombstone was behind it! When they couldn’t figure out how to work together […]
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WARNING! You are about to enter Old Face Front territory. Why do you want to go down there? There’s nothing down there for you! Scroll back up, and get a taste of the All-New, All-Different Face Front! I mean, if you really want to keep scrolling, I suppose I can’t stop you. It’s not all […]
Read More →Dan Slott told us all that Doc Ock was going to kill Spider-Man, two years in advance. And no one noticed. Now, I want to make this perfectly clear. I disagree with 98% of the decisions Dan Slott has made in his 10-year tenure on The Amazing Spider-Man. He did things rash. He did them […]
Read More →Well, when you’re working a low-paying job, you’ve got big boy bills to pay, and your blog isn’t really making you any money *cough* thanks a lot *cough*, luxuries like comic books kind of fall out of the budget. I would love to go to the comic book store, but I feel strange when I […]
Read More →Hey y’all! It’s Falcon from the hit Face Front web show, Sam Says! As you can see in the video above, I wasn’t lucky enough to get into San Diego Comic-Con… but a lot of people weren’t, so I’m gonna make sure y’all don’t miss a thing! Keep it here for all the latest […]
Read More →Enjoy this first in a new segment I’m doing called: Cover Story This cover is a variant of The Amazing Spider-Man #700, and one of my favorite comic book covers of all time. The artist is Marcos Martin, and he does an astounding job capturing the core of Spider-Man in one single picture. Here we […]
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