“Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse: Anatomy of a Scene”
The New York Times has a nice video breakdown of a scene in Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse.
The Great Ability of Miles Morales
I’ll try to do this without too many plot elements, but be aware, there will be plot elements in my piece. Near the beginning of Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), Miles Morales father says to Miles, while driving him to school, “With […]
“Spider-Man before Spider-Man was born”
Friend of the Gutter Colin Smith writes about Spider-Man, Steven Tyler and “comics-related carelessness” at Them Darn Superpeople. “So much of an autobiography’s magic lies in the way in which it beguilingly evokes the past with apparently intimate and accurate details. But once carelessness breaks the spell, a […]
“Viva Spider-Man”
Please enjoy this amazing 1989 film homage to Ralph Bakshi’s Spider-Man cartoon, “Viva Spider-Man!” (Thanks, Todd Stadtman!)
“8 Memorable Comics Screw-Ups”
“Mistakes happen. Sometimes those mistakes end up in print with a distribution in the hundreds of thousands. Here are some classic screw-ups, printing errors, and unfortunate coincidences that have graced the pages of comic books and newspaper strips over the years.” See them here.
“Hollywood Gave Up On You: The Summer Blockbuster Movies of 2016”
Friend of the Gutter Jessica Ritchey writes about 2016’s summer blockbusters: “And it matters more than it might seem that Hollywood has lost its nerve and touch in making blockbusters. Pop culture is how a society of diverse people talk to each to other—finding common idioms no matter […]
The Cultural Gutter 