Monthly Archive:: May 2015

When I first started Chasing Amazing (the very first post was made in November 2010 but I didn’t start to consistently contribute to the site until around February 2011), I had been co-running a blog site about a professional basketball team and finding the work generally unfulfilling. I wanted

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Spider-Woman #7 is a great example of how it’s easy to forgive a comic for moments of mediocrity when it’s been otherwise consistently delivering a riveting action-packed, character-driven story alongside stunning visuals that match the mood and vibe of the narrative perfectly. In other words, I’m politely saying that

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Dan (of superspidetalk.com) and I are up to our old tricks, running through what we think are the “essential” issues of Spider-Man comics. This time, I get the pick and I decided to go with a …. interesting choice. Marvel Two-In-One Annual #2 was written and illustrated by Jim

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While I’m still undoubtedly a fan of what Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez have created in Spider-Gwen, after this most recent issue I’m finally starting to understand why there are some people out there that are a tad frustrated with this series. That’s not necessarily a concession that I

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Just because the Marvel Universe has gone the way of the dodo doesn’t mean that Dan and I have stopped churning out the greatest Spider-Man podcast on the internet. In episode 18 of Amazing Spider-Talk, we talk Amazing Spider-Man #18 by Dan Slott, Christos Gage and Humberto Ramos. We

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While this most recent arc of Amazing Spider-Man has clearly lacked the pomp and circumstance of “Spider-Verse,” or “Goblin Nation,” Amazing Spider-Man #18 still reads as an anti-climatic finale for a series that is set to go on some semblance of a hiatus while Marvel gets its Secret Wars

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As some of you might already know, a few months ago, I reached a major milestone in my life with the purchase of Amazing Spider-Man #3. With that acquisition, I achieved my goal to own every ASM issue (Nos. 1-700). The “chase” in Chasing Amazing was effectively over. But

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We’re going to mix up our media here a bit with a very special video review. The fine folks at Power Up, a subscriber-based service that assembles boxes of geeky goodies like t-shirts, action figures, games, comics and other paraphernalia asked me to review one of their deluxe boxes.

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The dynamic duo of Dan Gvozden and yours truly keep up with our “essential” Spider-Man comic series with this latest installment of the Amazing Spider-Talk podcast. This time around, Dan and I chat about the modern classic, Amazing Spider-Man #617 and 625 by Joe Kelly and Max Flumara. Check

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Here’s a case where my inability to remember certain details from the tsunami of Spider-Man published in the early/mid 1990s has led to disappointing results. With Avengers: Age of Ultron clearly being all the rage today (and for the foreseeable future – we are talking about the sequel to

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