Stan Lee

These Ain’t Your Archie Comics

Mighty Avenger

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man is a thing to marvel.

American Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance '08

Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine.

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

New Times's Top DVD Picks for the Week of January 9, 2007

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

Run, Do Not Crawl

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Violent Femmes

Tenderhearted mutants kick significant keister in X-2: X-Men United

Rewind/Fast Forward Fest

Florida's Moving Image Archive pulls out some fine footage

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Totally Bizarro

Can superheroes and alternative comic authors really get along?

Cough It Up

The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

Call Him "Security"

Bruce Willis is the unwilling superhero in M. Night Shyamalan's dazzling comic book

The Man of Ink

Creator of Wonder Boys and supermen, Michael Chabon is a literary hero

Win, Lose, or Draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Revenge of the Fanboy

Alex Ross, painter of supermen and superwomen, makes it easy to believe in heroes

Stuff (New column. Online exclusive!)

Fatman and slobbin'

Miami Movie Mayhem!

The works of B-movie moguls like Herschell Gordon Lewis and Doris Wishman are so bad they're good. And they've become a permanent part of Florida film lore.