I remember reading somewhere that when it comes to any kind of storytelling, there are a finite number of narrative templates for authors to follow, meaning a lot of what we’re reading and watching on...
Mark Ginocchio
Mark Ginocchio is a professional writer and editor living in Brooklyn, NY. He's been collecting Amazing Spider-Man comic books since the late-1980s and launched Chasing Amazing in 2011 as a way to tell his story about Spider-Man, comics, collecting and everything else in-between. You also find Mark's writing at Comics Should Be Good at Comic Book Resources, WhatCulture.com and Longbox Graveyard. Follow him on Twitter for comic book chat @ChasingASMBlog.
Posts By Mark Ginocchio
If you were to look up the term “transitory comic book issue” in the dictionary, you would probably get a picture of Amazing Spider-Man #16 – which is not necessarily a bad thing, especially after...
Waugh! Howard the Duck is back at comic book shops with a brand new series by Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones. The release of the series inspired me to list, on ComicBook.com, my 10 favorite/most...
If you thought I was done with my “Clone Saga Callback” series just because I never wrote about the “Web of Death” storyline in which Doctor Octopus saves Peter Parker’s life before getting murdered by...
Fans of both Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Brian Michael Bendis/Jonathan Hickman Nick Fury-centric ongoing series Secret Warriors might notice the latter's steady influence on the former. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has adapted a number...
With little warning our build, my look back at Amazing Spider-Man #562-563 marks the last official entry in the “Brand New Day” retrospective I’ve been running since early January. I know after this arc there’s...
There's still ONE MORE chapter of "Spider-Verse" to discuss, so Dan and I are back to let you know if the "epilogue" was any better than the preceding 950 chapters in our latest installment of...
I wonder if Peter David is experiencing Déjà vu all over again. After months of speculation and build-up, David is finally back on a Spider-office ongoing with the relaunch of Spider-Man 2099 . The entire...
Silver Age Silliness is the recurring list feature on ComicBook.com where I look at the earliest installments of our favorite superhero comics and poke some fun at the more crazier/weirder moments. Since Spider-Man is all...
Expectations are such a funny thing. Of the two big new books launching from the Spider-office in February, Spider-Gwen , with the buzz generated from last year’s Edge of Spider-Verse #2 and its multiple variant...