Yes to both of these. Both Spider-Man films actually do a pretty good job of bringing Ben, Peter and the "Burglar" in close proximity to one another.

I believe the Magneto/Xavier situation was just very subtly (so, accidentally) retconned into the comics a few issues ago. Brian Bendis sometimes slips this sort of stuff…

He's Dr Faustus, an evil brainwashing psychologist from a handful of Captain America stories., partly responsible for Cap's death from a few years ago.

On the plus side, he may be ridiculous, but at least he's a character from the comics. Something both Marvel shows are a little lacking in.

There she is to the right.

Her eventual debut's a series of stalled starts, actually. The Jimmy Olsen backups she appeared in, for example, were actually cancelled midway through their release because DC decided not to include backup stories in their books anymore. They eventually released the entire Olsen story as a…

iirc, Kurt Busiek was meant to introduce her as a main character during his Superman run but there was a rights issue between Smallville and DC Comics. I believe it was that the showrunners had created her, and so even though she was associated with a young Superman in every possible way, DC couldn't use her without…

Azazel showed up recently in Amazing X-Men, still as Nightcrawler's dad and still as a demon. A demon pirate, in fact. It was... actually really, really good. Tons of fun even. The trick with Azazel is just to make him a straight-up demon rather than a mutant who is part of a sub-species of mutants who all look like…

The best workaround for the problem of Spider-Man's age that I think we've seen was in the 90s animated series, where Peter is in university at Empire State for most of the show. That helps maintain that he's younger than every other hero - they all have real jobs, after all - but allows studios to cast a slightly…

He'd probably kill me for posting his rough progress artwork (if you're reading this, I guess I'm dead) but a friend and I are collaborating on a scifi/horror/pop comic for an anthology that will be published around April. I'm the writer and, nope, I don't want to say more.

As a superhero comics fan, I used to take canon and continuity really seriously. I once got really angry that Flash Thompson was toasting a full champagne glass in a Spider-Man comic because "he's a recovering alcoholic, goddammit!"

Then I realized that I could either accept that creators were going to flub a few…

I do believe there's a completed version of that scene on one of the BTTF DVD releases that shows Old Biff fading out after he climbs out of the time machine. But it was pulled because the studio/filmmakers were worried it was too confusing for the audience.

They escaped custody at the end of that same episode; broken out in transit to Iron Heights by Cold's sister.

The worst thing any of the major studios can do (and some have) is panic. Spider-Man in particular is practically a license to print money. Getting him wrong is extremely difficult (there are decades of Spider-Man comics which, no matter how bad they got, always feel relatively consistent in their portrayal of the…

Now I dislike that movie a lot, but someone does call him Superman. A soldier does in the control room, which prompts the General to ask something like "Superman?" and the guy says, "It's... what they're calling him."

What's weird is that I remember friends who were seasoned drinkers telling me this when I first started drinking, and I was worried that it would be the case. Instead I found that for some reason, if I got completely sick from drinking too much of a particular type of booze, I was later completely immune to sensations…

But if the Star Wars films exist as Lucasfilm's interpretation of the real Star Wars mythology discovered in ancient temples, does that mean the Indiana Jones movies are really just historical biopics starring actor Harrison Ford? If so, why has our knowledge of aliens being around in the 1950s not directly affected…

Seems legitimate, and what Eastern mystics and magic enthusiasts have been saying for ages. The idea of being conscious of your every stray thought because of its potential to affect the world around you.

But even ungrounded from the mysticism, it seems to make sense: If you legitimately believe that humans are evil…

I dunno. I feel like he just uses that position as his justification for being a terrible person. He doesn't really think Superman is holding us back, he just sees Superman as hogging the limelight he feels he deserves.

The drugs were sentient and controlling his actions. Guy can't be held fully accountable for the actions of Sublime.