Reading Experience Archive

In addition to completely upending the Amazing Spider-Man status quo by mystically dissolving the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane, what I think I best remember the “Brand New Day” era of Spider-Man for was the number of new villains introduced by the rotating team of Spidey scribes. It

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Over the years, I’ve occasionally referred to the litany of losers and D-list villains introduced in the Spider-Man universe during the late 1970s/early 1980s as Spidey’s “Bronze Age Bums.” While there were a couple of guys who were created during this period that had some longevity like Jackal and

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With Superior Foes of Spider-Man ending later this month, I thought I would write a couple of posts about storylines that prominently feature some members of the “Fantastic Five” (Boomerang, Shocker, Speed Demon, Beetle and Overdrive). I know that may not make a whole lot of sense since “Spider-Verse” is

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It’s hard to believe that another few months have passed and it’s time for another installment of the greatest assembly of comic book blogging talent on the internet – the Super Blog Team-Up! In this volume, we super bloggers are teaming up to write about team-ups, whether they be

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I’ve always been a bit squidgy when the real world of politics intersects with the fantasy world of superhero comics. That’s because regardless of the creative team’s beliefs (and how they coincide with my own), there’s always the inherent risk that a politically-charged comic might devolve into something that

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Every time I reach the end of Roger Stern and John Romita’s Spider-Man/Black Cat storyline in Amazing Spider-Man #226-227, I find myself feeling a bit melancholy. These comics are certainly not bawl your eyes out sad like ASM #121 or ASM #400, but Stern’s script so effectively taps into

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In the past, I’ve often referred to the simplicity of Electro’s origin story. When the character was first introducing in Amazing Spider-Man #9 it a no fuss, no muss affair – an ordinary lineman Max Dillon gets extraordinary powers, and as a contrast to our titular hero Spider-Man, decides to

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Just when you thought Chasing Amazing was done with theme months, I’ve decided to kick of another batch of loosely connected posts in June. Because the recently rebooted Amazing Spider-Man series is featuring Electro and Black Cat so prominently as part of its first arc, I thought I would

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I am nothing if not a slave to tradition. Unfortunately, I had some legitimate struggles this time around trying to tie today’s Chasing Amazing post with the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of options in terms of

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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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