Mark D. White

Writer, editor, teacher

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I’m a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the College of Staten Island/CUNY, where I teach courses in philosophy, economics, and law, and the author/editor/co-editor of several books.

Category: Spider-Man

  • Spider-Man’s own trolley problem (in Amazing Spider-Man #655)

    Short and sweet, folks… amidst the wonderfully poignant, mostly silent elegy for the recently departed (I won't spoil things if it you didn't read #654), Dan Slott and Marcos Martin's Amazing Spider-Man #655 portrays Peter in his dreamworld confronting those lost in his battle against evil, and being taunted by the evildors themselves for not…

  • Matt Fraction on the Ethics of Spider-Man and Iron Man

    In a fantastic new interview at Newsarama, The Invincible Iron Man writer Matt Fraction discusses the future of the Iron Man title (including the mammoth #500 issue and the reflective #500.1 issue), previews Tony's role in the upcoming Fear Itself event, and–most interesting to me–compares Iron Man and Spider-Man in terms of their ethics. From the…

  • One Moment in Sleepytime (or the REAL reason MJ left Peter)

    Joe Quesada could have saved a lot of time and effort writing "One Moment in Time," which explained the machinations behind MJ and Peter's split that was orchestrated in "One More Day," if he had just shown what Stan Lee did in three panels in today's Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip:   Good luck, Carlie!

  • A psychologist reviews Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

    My friend Robin Rosenberg, editor of The Psychology of Superheroes, wrote about her impressions of the controversial Spider-Man musical at her Psychology Today blog – worth a read!