Amazing Spider-Man

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Arms and armor ^ Crusty Bunkers % The world before us * % 3 STORY: SECRET FILES OF THE GIANT MAN This is the ramp-up for the Era of Matt Kindt Doing a Whole Lot: a saddle-stitched collection of three brief sequels (which originally appeared online) to his 2009 graphic novel about a giant

Obviously Peter Parker is going to behave differently as Spider-Man than he will in his nerdy, unmasked idiom, but the Amazing Spider-Man sizzle previewed for the press last month featured a wall-crawler whose behavior went beyond the typical boundaries of vigilante bravado; something I described as "epic spider trolling...

With only a few months before its release in theaters, it's no surprise that new clips from The Amazing Spider-Man movie have started appearing online. What may be more surprising about these three short clips, however, is where they came from...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Different class ^ Separations % Freaks * ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN This 1986-1987 Frank Miller/Bill Sienkiewicz miniseries might be the most visually impressive thing Marvel has published in the direct-market era--Sienkiewicz at the absolute peak of his form, a phenomenal he-do-the-police-in-dif

In effort to squeeze every drop out of the licensing opportunity that is The Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel has licensed a line of Spidey-inspired nail polish. Obviously, OPI, which is making the polish, is hoping that Spider-fans will come flocking to the cosmetics counter, forsaking their usual shades for Lizard green and webslinger white...

Everyone knows that Spider-Man got his powers after being bitten by a radioactive spider. I'm beginning to wonder if maybe he wasn't also bitten by a radioactive clotheshorse, given the frequency of his costume changes. From the look of the teasers released by Marvel Comics, the latest Spider-Man costume will debut this spring in the Amazing Spider-Man story arc "Ends of The Earth... Read Mo

The relaunch of Marvel's Spider-Man film franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man won't hit theaters until July, but for those of you hungry for details about the movie, we have some good news. This week, the toys based on the movie have been revealed thanks to Idle Hands, and along with them, interesting details about what's going to happen in the movie...

Okay, okay, we probably could've written a better headline for that, but it's true: Thanks to Spidermedia.ru, we now have our first look at The Amazing Spider-Man movie's version of The Lizard. Played by Rhys Ifans, the villainous and occasionally cannibalistic alter-ego of Dr...

Behold... The Lizard! As cleverly discovered by Comic Book Movie, the secret visage of the villain from the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man movie has been revealed (presumably unwittingly) in the form of a PEZ candy dispenser, just one of what's sure to be countless pieces of the film's licensed tie-in merchandise...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * True Brits ^ The beating of wings % Body displacement * ^ % ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 5 Did you imagine that the previous Absolute volumes reprinting the Sandman series and the Death miniseries exhausted Vertigo's ability to repurpose Neil Gaiman's fantasy work...