As was demonstrated in Spider-Man’s confrontation with Morlun, and his much ballyhooed battle with the Juggernaut, when the odds are the most stacked against the Web Slinger, he always has his intellect to help him...
Monthly Archives: November 2011
Chasing Amazing is back online after spending a week and change taking care of my newborn son John. Sorry for the radio silence since then, but I’m sure the vast bulk of you understand. And...
Remember back in September when I said my "chase" may be going on hiatus for a little bit because I was expecting a baby? Well, like any man of integrity, I wasn't lying. On Tuesday,...
Amazing Spider-Man’s J. Michael Straczynski era kicked off with one of my favorite storylines of all time and, as such, the first entry in my “stand up and cheer” series . While recent ASM writers...
You’ll often hear me discuss specific themes and storytelling devices utilized by writers and creative teams that have kept me hooked on Amazing Spider-Man for more than 20 years. I’ll talk about character developments, or...
As we approach the fantastic finish of Spider Island (I swear, I’m going to get some write-ups on the remaining three ASM’s just as soon as Marvel’s subscription services department drops the damn things in...
I haven’t written about this series in a long while and considering this is a Spider-Man site first and foremost, it's with good reason. With so much of the title’s focus on multiple Reed Richards...
Let me start this post off with a quick programming note. As I referred to on Twitter the other day ( are you following Chasing Amazing on Twitter? Yes? Great. No? What’s wrong with you),...
In the previous installment of Spider Island: Spider-Girl I talked about how we all seem to gravitate to a bad guy gone good (or as AMC’s Breaking Bad demonstrates, a good guy, gone bad). It’s...
The idea of who is an actual “super” hero was a common theme throughout the Spider Island storyline considering the focal point of the arc was the fact that the entirety of Manhattan was overrun...
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