Do you know the way to Shell Beach? PopMatters/Comics Associate Editor Michael D. Stewart has been a freelance writer, pr consultant, and loan officer. He currently spends his days as a marketing executive and his nights prowling the mean keys of his laptop hoping to find his own Shell Beach. Michael is also the co-creator of the Webcomic "Monster Comics" that appears on AsburyPulp.com and is working on his debut graphic novella "Some Kind of Blue Moon." Follow him on twitter: @MichaelDStewart
Can a pop song save your soul? It’s a question we could imagine pop culture sage Rob Gordon asking in the pages of High Fidelity, or Don McLean espousing on in the song “American Pie,” but it usually isn’t the type of question posed in the pages of a superhero comic book. Yet, that’s essentially the question writer Dan Slott is asking in Amazing Spider-Man #690.
