Monthly Archive:: October 2013

I’ve made mention of this on my Twitter and Facebook pages (are you following/liking me on Twitter and Facebook? Why not? Do that now!), but wanted to announce/declare in official capacity that as of this afternoon, I will be attending New York Comic Con as a member of the

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I’m back guest blogging at one of my favorite comic book sites on the internet, Longbox Graveyard. This time around I’ve written a more personal look at Daily Bugle reporter Ben Urich, who first appeared in Daredevil #153 but was made famous during Frank Miller’s iconic first run on

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Even after reading All New X-Men Special #1 last week, the first installment of the one-shot traversing “Arms of the Octopus” storyline, which promotes the “return” of Doctor Octopus, I still don’t know exactly what this arc is hoping to accomplisht. Certainly on paper, the story offers a shocking

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When Marvel announced a few months ago that my “mom and dad’s Spider-Man,” aka, Peter Parker, would be returning as the Web Slinging focal point of a five part mini-series that would also resurrect the Marvel Knights imprint from the early 2000s, I was intrigued by the project without

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Throughout the month of September, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Avengers and the Uncanny X-Men, I made a series of posts about Spider-Man interacting with the cast of these two iconic franchises. For a full listing of all of Chasing Amazing’s content relating to this theme

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Taking a cue from the current pages of Superior Spider-Man #1, for my latest Gimmick or Good? column at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I take a look at 1992’s Spider-Man 2099 #1. This red foil book was the first installment in Marvel’s 2099 line and featured a

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I think I’ve been pigeon-holing myself a bit with the retro-comics I’ve been writing about over the past few months: the original Hobgoblin Saga review over the summer and last month’s Avengers/X-Men 50th anniversary posts. So with that in mind, I’m not going to “officially” declare October, “Venom Month.”

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A few quick/scattered thoughts about Scarlet Spider #22: In the world of comic books, very few characters who die, stay dead – unless you happen to be Uncle Ben or Gwen Stacy (you’re not counting the clone, are you?). But of all of the deaths that took place in

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There’s something almost schizophrenic about Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #3 in that there are elements about its story and structure that are a call back to the “olden” days of Spider-Man comics, while simultaneously functioning as an example what our modern-day “event-driven” sensibilities have done to the comic book industry.

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