Monthly Archive:: December 2014

For a comprehensive gallery of all of the images featured on Chasing Amazing, along with other cool visuals I stumble upon while surfing the internet, be sure to follow my Pinterest page. Here are some visuals from my Hobgoblin page, which are all images featuring the Hobgoblin as he’s appeared in

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As many of you probably will note, I love the Silver Age of comics. But despite all the great stories, the Silver Age is filled with absurd, unintentionally funny moments that have not aged well. In a new list feature for ComicBook.com, I’ve decided to poke fun at these

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It’s been a quiet week for new releases, so that means there’s time for me to plow through one more Reader Request entry before the end of the year. Via Twitter, Altonncf, a very good friend of both this site and the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast, requests a lookback at the Brian

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The Avengers and the X-Men are two of Marvel’s most iconic superhero teams. So why can’t they ever get along? The two groups just wrapped up another big event fight in Axis: Avengers & X-Men. So, on ComicBook.com, I took it upon myself to rank the 10 greatest Avengers/X-Men

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The Maximoff Family, better known as Magneto, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, have enjoyed a long and winding history over the years. But things took an even more interesting twist during a recent issue of Axis: Avengers & X-Men (for the sake of spoilers I won’t specify that twist in this

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Who doesn’t love to hear a superhero origin a second time? Actually, superhero origin retelling tend to be a bit on the controversial side if done wrong (like Spider-Man: Chapter One). But they can also be some of the very best superhero stories ever told. This list, as featured

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Ho ho ho true believers! Hope everyone reading Chasing Amazing is having a great holiday season. Just in case you haven’t gotten your fill of stories of Santa Claus and Christmas miracles, on ComicBook.com I’ve ranked 12 of the best superhero holiday tales of all time. Enjoy those and

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Reader Request month 2014 edition is in its penultimate week so we’ll be rifling through some of these as time allows. For our next installment, I I took a request from Chasing Amazing/Amazing Spider-Talk superfan, Thomas Aiello who, via my site’s Facebook page, recommended Amazing Spider-Man #187 by Marv Wolfman,

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The relentlessly funny Axis: Hobgoblin miniseries reached its finale last week, ending on a somewhat inconclusive note that gives me hope that perhaps there’s life after Axis for Roderick Kingsley (as long as Kevin Shinick and Javier Rodriguez remain the creative team). Even when the third and final issue wasn’t firing

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We Spider-Man fans are already used to outbreak storylines (see “Spider Island”). However, in the world of Justice League right now, the eerie Amazo Virus is running rampant through Metropolis. So, on ComicBook.Com I thought I would rank the comic book world’s five deadliest and most famous diseases.

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