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Ta-Nehisi Coates - Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor for The Atlantic, where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. More

Born in 1975, the product of two beautiful parents. Raised in West Baltimore—not quite The Wire, but sometimes ill all the same. Studied at the Mecca for some years in the mid-’90s. Emerged with a purpose, if not a degree. Slowly migrated up the East Coast with a baby and my beloved, until I reached the shores of Harlem. Wrote some stuff along the way.
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Life Is a Great Big Bang-Up

By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep 1 2010, 11:00 AM ET Comment

I just happened to be scrolling through Marvel's website, and it looks like they're streaming the X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons from the '90s. I think these are probably my two favorite adaptations of Marvel. In terms of comic books overall, Justice League murders all. And while X-Men tends to be gratingly melodramatic ("Scott!!") and Spider-Man ended on a cliff-hanger (Where was the real Mary Jane) both were pretty good considering the time. 

I'm also a fan of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, which is probably the sole reason I started reading comic books. Of course the old school Spider-Man has the greatest theme song ever. I used to have to get up as six in the morning on Saturday to see this...



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