Monthly Archive:: May 2014

Next summer’s surefire blockbuster Avengers: Age of Ultron is expected to be a “darker” movie per some early interviews with cast members, so I decided to have some fun with that idea and look at 10 outrageously crazy and offensive moments from The Avengers comics (including The Ultimates) in

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Chasing Amazing is proud to be participating in “Round 3” of the greatest assembly of comic book blogging talent on the internet – Super Blog Team-Up. After previously talking about times our favorite heroes quit, and famous comic book retcons, now the team has joined forces to talk villains –

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Proving that Amazing Spider-Talk is a podcast that knows how to adapt with the times, we have introduced our first “point one” episode! Amazing Spider-Talk #1.1 is here and waiting for you by visiting superiorspidertalk.com. In this installment, Dan Gvozden and I talk the first issue of the “Learning

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Perhaps if my very first exposure to an Amazing Spider-Man Annual was issue was ASM Annual #1, I wouldn’t have this very bizarre hang-up about considering them a part of my collection. During a conversation I once had with another blogger and comic book aficionado, this person referred to

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I think one of my biggest regrets I’ve had as a Spider-Man fan is the fact that I missed out on the Untold Tales of Spider-Man series the first time around. Instead, I was too busy wasting my time following the meandering “Clone Saga” from book to book, getting

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After our successful debut episode earlier this month, the Amazing Spider-Talk is back with a special, Spider-Talk and Their Amazing Friends edition. In these episodes, Dan Gvozden and I interview creators and other personalities associated with Spider-Man comics. This time around, we welcome the fantastic writer Kevin Shinick (Superior

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With 50 years of stories to his credit, Spider-Man was bound to be a part of some forgettable ones. My latest list at WhatCulture.com looks at 10 Spider-Man moments and characterizations that Marvel has made a concerted effort to forget or wipe from existence. These are not necessarily “bad”

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For a comprehensive gallery of all of the images featured on Chasing Amazing, along with other cool visuals I stumble upon while surfing the internet, be sure to follow my Pinterest page. Here are some visuals from my Gwen Stacy gallery which are all images of Peter Parker’s first true love, Gwen Stacy,

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As an old fogey who still has a childlike fascination with holding onto a physical copy of a comic book – putting that little booklet inside a bag, inserting a backing board and sealing it for eternity – I understand that the future of the industry and the medium ties

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I believe the last time I wrote about the Marvel’s Ultimate line, Chasing Amazing was still in its infancy, and I was more concerned about how the storyline in question – the death of Ultimate Peter Parker – was drawing inspiration from some of the bad gimmicks of the 1990s

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