This week’s three weekly recommendations for exploring comics, film and TV, and games all focus on an iconic character from the world of American comics. Today we’re looking at the comic ‘Spider-Man: The Story of My Life’, the film ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’, which is due for release in cinemas, and the video games ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Spider-Man 2’ by Insomniac

Now a century old, this road – forever etched in the minds of travellers – no longer exists, but lives on in a thousand fragments: motels, diners and neon signs. In a living mausoleum to the United States of yesteryear, and what remains of it

Three weekly recommendations to explore comics, audiovisual media and games, helping you find your way around the vast universe of pop culture and the stories that are shaping the contemporary imagination. Today: the graphic novel "Belmiele", the TV series "Widow’s Bay" and the video game "Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced"