Monthly Archive:: September 2013

House of M is yet another in a long line of mini-series/events Marvel produced in the early-to-mid 2000s that was off my radar thanks in large part to the fact that I had only JUST started to get back into buying monthly Spider-Man comic books at the same time

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As part of Chasing Amazing’s X-Men/Avengers 50th anniversary celebration in September, the site is reposting older posts that relate to these great franchises. This post is originally from July 21, 2011. In the perpetual battle of superheroes versus supervillains, priority number one for the creative team is to build

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As part of Chasing Amazing’s X-Men/Avengers 50th anniversary celebration in September, the site is reposting older posts that relate to these great franchises. This post is originally from July 1, 2013. With the Raft supervillain prison being such a focal point in the current Superior Spider-Man arc, I thought

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It may be 20 years after the fact, but I’ve recently discovered the greatness that was Peter David’s run on The Incredible Hulk. As such, for my most recent edition of Gimmick or Good? at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I reviewed the neon colored Incredible Hulk #377,

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It’s probably a given that someone who calls himself a Spider-Man fan should have a real affinity for Spider-Man and his alter ego, Peter Parker. But beyond the superheroics of the “Web Slinger,” one of the biggest things about this comic book universe that has kept me hooked for

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I’ve spent so many years being unhappy with the characterization of Carnage, I haven’t really stopped to think about what I would actually want to see in the character that would make me happy. Going back to the days of the overly-long, ridiculously shallow “Maximum Carnage” crossover, I’ve thought

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Editor’s Note: For the first time in Chasing Amazing history, we have a guest blogger. Dan Gvozden, from (the new) Grind My Reels.com and the co-host (with me) of Superior Spider-Talk was nice enough to share his experiences from Baltimore’s Comic Con earlier this month. Sadly, I couldn’t join

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It’s no secret that I have a lot of Spider-Man “blind spots,” but when it comes to Spidey “B” titles that have been off my radar for the bulk of my reading existence, Marvel Team-Up stands on its own. While I understand that Team-Up is the first official ongoing

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Superior Spider-Man #18 is an instance where the more time passes from my initial read, the more issues I seem to have with the comic’s plot progression, characterization, artwork and overall structure. It actually pains me a bit that I feel this way because after the mediocre “No Escape”

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It’s that time again … Dan Gvozden from Grind My Reels and myself have released Episode 16 of Superior Spider-Talk. In this podcast, we give our thoughts, reviews and speculation pertaining to Superior Spider-Man #18. We then talk about some upcoming Spidey news and speculation including some interesting tidbits from Marvel’s December

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