Amazing Spider-Man and the craft of writing: A YouTube hangout with Mike...
It’s been years in the making, but the stars have finally aligned for your friendly neighborhood blogger and Mike McNulty (Stillanerd) to team up for a discussion on comic books. If you’ve enjoyed...
View ArticleDan Slott’s excitement, focus return in Amazing Spider-Man #18 with Doctor...
The Amazing Spider-Man #18 is an issue that has been building since the end of Spider-Verse in February 2015, so it stands to reason that writer Dan Slott would put extra care into the product. Still,...
View ArticleDan Slott eviscerated after cyber-stalking Philly charity runner; industry...
What does it mean to be a comics industry “journalist”? Does it mean finding and reporting good stories that readers would be interested in, or does it mean reporting only the happy-happy-joy-joy “Ren...
View ArticleDan Slott’s Spider-Verse Epilogue: Wrap-up oddly more exciting than main story
Dan Slott is an interesting guy — when he’s not trolling random women on Twitter or casting countless Peter Parker fans as racist rubes, he’s making the epilogue to his big Spider-Verse tale more...
View ArticleSpider-Verse ends with puerile pheromone talk, Dan Slott’s sex-crazed Silk...
It may have taken 20 issues and $80, but Dan Slott’s Spider-Verse is finally over. Unfortunately for Peter Parker fans, the writer was able to get in one last parting shot by making his sex-crazed...
View ArticleDan Slott trolls random woman on Twitter, then has the gall to bash GamerGate...
If comic book industry journalists did their job, then they would take Dan Slott to task for behaving like an immature clown on social media. The appropriate websites have abdicated their...
View ArticleSpider-Verse Part 4: Side effects of Dan Slott’s Spider-Gluttony may include...
After months of lead-up to Spider-Verse, the actual series, and its tie-in material, fans of Peter Parker may find themselves suffering from a form of Spider-Diabetes due to Dan Slott’s...
View ArticleDan Slott’s Spider-Verse: Peter Parker sadly gives off ‘Where’s Waldo?’ vibe...
There’s a line from 2004’s “The Incredibles” where the villain Syndrome says, “When everyone’s super, no one will be.” Dan Slott’s “Spider-Verse” tale operates on many of the same levels — when the...
View ArticleChuck Dixon and Paul Rivoche call out an industry filled with moral...
Chuck Dixon and Paul Rivoche took to the The Wall Street Journal this past weekend to address an issue that guys like myself, Hube at Collossus of Rhodey, and Avi Green over at The Four Color Media...
View ArticleDan Slott’s Amazing Spider-Man #1: Peter Parker gets punk return by a guy who...
Peter Parker went out like a punk — twice — by writer Dan Slott, so it’s only fitting that he would get a punk homecoming. If you’re an Amazing Spider-Man fan who has been waiting for over a year to...
View ArticleDan Slott: Marvel’s lying scribe attacks critics, then turns to Twitter to...
For roughly an entire year now Dan Slott has had regular meltdowns directed at yours truly. Last May, I wrote a piece titled: ‘Is Dan Slott’s ‘Superior Spider-Man’ really a Superior anti-Semite?’ The...
View ArticleDan Slott gives fans zombie Peter Parker — then counts his precious sales
Superior Spider-Man #30 is finally here, and with it comes the guy we’ve all been waiting for: Zombie Peter Parker. Fans are supposed to rejoice now that Dan Slott’s “memory fragment” of Peter Parker...
View ArticleDan Slott thinks he’s ‘Slott Bakula’ in Quantum Leap as he defends Superior...
The history of Dan Slott trolling the Internet in search of wrongs to right is well known. He scours comic websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook groups and YouTube accounts looking to play “Slott Bakula”...
View ArticleDan Slott: I treated Peter Parker like a ‘meat puppet,’ but ‘Learning to...
Dan Slott has spoken to the Associated Press about the return of Peter Parker, and the news service has dutifully played its role as Marvel’s mouthpiece — the perfect interview for a guy who prefers...
View ArticleDan Slott’s Superior Spider-Man: Body-snatching rapist confirmed in issue 22
In December of 2012 I examined what it would mean if Dan Slott’s body-snatching Spider-Man slept with Mary Jane under false pretenses. If I had a twin brother, pretended to be him in the dark, and...
View ArticleBleeding Cool calls out Dan Slott’s creation — a ‘Nazi-like’ Superior Spider-Man
In May, I broke down for readers what, exactly, it would mean to have a megalomaniac body-snatching Spider-Man running around in Peter Parker’s body. Dan Slott’s creation, on the cusp of enacting a...
View ArticleDan Slott: I love Peter Parker so much I turned him into a ‘meat puppet’
The New York Comic Con is on, which means that comic fans get to view internet photo galleries of beautiful Cosplay ladies dressed as Power Girl, and Peter Parker fans get to read Dan Slott interviews...
View ArticleDan Slott, absent a superior argument, now sics Twitter followers on critics
Superior Spider-Man writer Dan Slott has a reputation for not taking criticism well. His online behavior is well known, but now that he has issued marching orders to his followers like Mole Man to his...
View ArticleBig Bang Theory delivers punishing blow to Superior Spider-Man; Dan Slott...
Do the writers of The Big Bang Theory read this blog? If not, it appears as though we’re on the exact same wavelength when it comes to Dan Slott’s Superior Spider-Man. Here is what I said on February...
View ArticleDan Slott and Marvel’s Orwellian message boards can’t hide the truth: Fans...
Anyone who has read George Orwell’s ’1984′ is familiar with the Ministry of Truth and its “memory holes,” those fabulous tubes that get rid of pesky realities for the good of The Party. Anyone who has...
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