Author: Tanner
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Amazing Spider-Man by Joe Kelly #3 Review: Minutes to Midnight
Welcome back to modern life and the third issue of Joe Kelly’s Spider-Man run! 1963 was nice, except for Vulture’s Staten Island lair, of course.Writer: Joe KellyArtists: Pepe Larraz, Marte GraciaLetterer: Joe CaramagnaSolicitation: PUMPKIN BOMB PROBLEMS! Past and present collide sending Spider-Man spinning OUT OF CONTROL — just when an old foe obsessed with him… Read more
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Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #3-6 Review: Supervillain Open House
To provide more detail, Is have decided to continue legacy comic reviews in bundles of issues, today with issues #3 through #6 in Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s Amazing Spider-Man run. As each issue is essentially just a chapter, it feels incomplete and unfair to judge unfinished sequential storytelling on its own. Also, these vintage… Read more
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Amazing Spider-Man #2 Review: Nostalgia & Art in 1963
After visiting the first two issues of Joe Kelly’s run, let’s head back to 1963’s Amazing Spider-Man #2 by Marvel creators and legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko!Writer: Steve Ditko, Stan LeePenciller: Steve DitkoSolicitation: The First Appearance of the Vulture! The Vulture’s rampage in Manhattan begins. Can Spidey take down the avian menace?Published: May 1,… Read more
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #2/ Legacy #966 Review
Creative Team:Writer: Joe Kelly Penciller: Pepe Larraz, John Romita Jr. Tanner here, back with a look at the second issue of The Amazing Spider-Man (2025), which is issue #966 in legacy numbering, covering the total series since 1963. I got the Paolo Rivera cover variant featuring our friendly neighborhood superhero with a beautiful backdrop of… Read more
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The Amazing Spider-Man (2025) #1/Legacy #965 Review
Creative Team: Writer: Joe Kelly Well, Jimbo, I am jumping in a time machine from 1963’s The Amazing Spider-Man #1 to 2025’s Amazing Spider-Man #1, also labelled with legacy numbering as issue 965. Long-time comic book fans will be familiar with this numbering system and may skip to the review, but I will elaborate on… Read more
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The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #1 Review
Creative Team: Writer: Stan Lee Penciller: Steve Ditko, Sol Brodsky Maybe Steve Ditko could foretell how iconic this first issue of The Amazing Spider-Man was to become, and it begins with the lavish detail shown to the cover art featuring the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man, who were to be Marvel’s first breakout successes in the… Read more
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My Very Own Fresh Start: Plotting a Path to Spider-Man: Brand New Day
In 1963, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first created the web-slinging superhero known as Spider-Man. I was born in 1998 and grew up with the Tobey Maguire movies as the basis for my introduction to the character. My Dad and Uncle Chris grew up in the heyday and bustle of superheroes, introducing the beloved characters… Read more
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Exploring the Islamic Tradition
The Islamic tradition draws upon the long history of the Abrahamic faiths with the key contention that al’Rasul is the final Messenger Muhammed who received God’s word, completing a line of vahiy, individuals who are divinely inspired but mortal nonetheless that brought God’s word to his special peoples. As the third faith to draw from… Read more
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Sociopolitical Culture of Pre-Islamic Arabia to Early Islamic World
In the period of Islamic history before Al’Rasul, or the final messenger of Allah received his words, Arab culture was centered on kinship ties and collectivist tendencies towards a much larger group of familial relations then typically common in modern Western societies with our espousal of nuclear-family units. One’s kinship helped determine one’s occupation and… Read more
