Gwen Stacy Archive

Some quick house-cleaning/sausage making updates  before I proceed with today’s post. Since we here at Chasing Amazing pride ourselves on creating content that both looks back and looks forward at the Spider-Man universe (two days a week and sometimes a third, if I’m feeling saucy), I thought I’d use

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Ten years ago this week, I picked an interesting time to leave the borders of the United States for the first time ever. A college friend had convinced me to spend my Spring Break in London with him, seeing some live theater in the West End, catching the traditional

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Spider-Man has long been perceived as a superhero comic book, but at its core, it’s also a love story. More so than any other comic book I can think of, there has always been an emphasis on romantic and familial relationships in Spider-Man – i.e. love – whether it’s

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At different points in my life, I’ve often contemplated if I was born in the right year. That’s because my tastes in pop culture have never really been in-tune with the rest of my generation. Sure the Beatles Anthology made the Fab Four a phenomena (again) with some of

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When I think “love” and “Spider-Man” an outsider may assume I’m going to talk about Peter Parker’s long-time relationship with Mary Jane Watson – that IS the girl he married after all. But maybe because Spider-Man is a comic book that’s as much about loss and responding to loss

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In any kind of story, whether it be a novel, a television show or a comic book, you want to see growth from key characters. While not everyone featured in a story needs to go on a dramatic journey, where, to quote Stewie from Family Guy, “friends become enemies,

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I’m concluding my run of “stand up and cheer moments” with what I hope will be an obvious choice – one of the most famous and iconic moments in Amazing Spider-Man history, and perhaps the visual that has best come to emblemize Spider-Man’s “it” factor that truly makes him

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It’s possible that here on Chasing Amazing, I have a little bit of a villain fetish. I admit it. I love supervillains. As much as I love the compelling backstory of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, like any good popcorn-munching, entertainment-seeking lemming, I need to see things go “boom.” That’s where supervillains

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As a companion to the “Remembrance of Comics Past” tomes I will post on Chasing Amazing, I thought it was also important to look at the other end of my collection — the new issues. Amazing Spider-Man is still a living, growing entity, publishing issues twice a month. I’ve

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