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Goodbye, Downtown Macy's (Nee Foley's): Six Oddities You May Not Know, Featuring Massive Fallout Shelters, Ghosts & Spider-Man

It's a sad sight walking by the downtown Macy's these days -- a cheap-ass "Going Out Of Business" hangs from its walls, and if you go inside you'll find few floors open and everything -- even the fixtures -- on sale. It's an undignified ending for the old store, which opened as a Foley's in 1947. ... More >>

Amazing Spider-Man

The spider becomes a man and a joy.

The Amazing Spider-Man

The spider becomes a man - and a joy.

Spy Game

Everything you've heard about Midtown cocktail bar Double Cross Lounge no longer applies.

Pop Rocks: 10 Things Comic Con 2011 Taught Us

Steven Spielberg presents...​The 2011 Comic Con wrapped up last weekend. Over 120,000 of the geeky, nerdy, attention starved, and Twilight-headed descended upon sunny San Diego last weekend for what has become the entertainment industry's premiere showcase for anything related to comics, video ... More >>

The Five Real Reasons Spider-Man 4 Won't Happen

​I imagine most of you are aware of the sad news by now, but just in case you hadn't heard, Spider-Man 4 isn't happening: A few days after script issues pushed it off the May 2011 calendar, Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today that Spider-Man 4 ain't gonna happen at all, and that ... More >>

A Reprieve For What Counts As A Historic Houston Building

Courtesy Greater Houston Preservation Alliance​It's news!! A historic Houston building will not be torn down Yet, at least!!Harris County Commissioners Court voted yesterday to belay the wrecking ball on the Hogan-AllnochDry Goods Building, which was likely to be torn down to make space for a Minu ... More >>

Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man Is a Marvel

Mighty Avenger

Spider-Man 3

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruin Spidey's run

Our top DVD picks for the week of January 11

Special Ed

Young teens become superempowered in Sky High

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

Violent Femmes

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

The Devil You Know

This comic book adaptation may be gritty, but Ben Affleck isn't

Bloody Hell

Daredevil is a grown-up adaptation, but still too two-dimensional

World Wide Web

Spider-Man does whatever a spider can and much more

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

Soul Survivor

Bruce Willis discovers his better self in M. Night Shyamalan's heroic 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

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds