Trivia question: Who is the best Spider-Man writer not named Stan Lee?

J. Michael Straczynski
Paul Jenkins
Gerry Conway
Howard Mackie

BZZZT! None of the above!
The answer, my friends, is J. M. DeMatteis. And it’s not even close. His run on Spectacular Spider-Man in the 1990s with Sal Buscema was a personal favorite of mine, and his work was so [...]

I want to like this book more than I did.
Paul Jenkins has rarely disappointed in his decade-plus career as a comics writer. He was given the impossible chore of replacing Garth Ennis on Hellblazer and survived with three years of great stories. He not only made the Inhmans interesting, but he revitalized the [...]

…or how to justify spending a lot of money on comics.
I buy a lot of comics. A lot of comics.
Actually, scratch that. I buy a lot of graphic novels. I buy books in series I like. I buy indie graphic novels. I buy oversized superhero books. I buy webcomic compilations. I buy reproductions of old [...]