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I was of two minds when I first heard that Marvel would be releasing an original graphic novel, Amazing Spider-Man: Family Business, starring Peter Parker as Spider-Man and his “long-lost sister” Teresa. There was the all-star cast of creators assigned to the project, including two of my favorite writers

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Chasing Amazing was barely a few months old when the first Captain America movie was released in 2011, but I inadvertently started a trend when I wrote this post about my personal relationship to Cap to coincide with the film’s opening day. In the years that have followed, I’ve

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With Captain America: The Winter Solder opening up in North America on Friday, I thought it was time to start focusing on some content about the Red, White and Blue Avenger (including a special post about Spider-Man, Cap and The Falcon scheduled for tomorrow). First up is a list

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Here it is folks: the episode of Superior Spider-Talk everyone has been waiting for once it became clear that my partner, Dan Gvozden, and I did not see eye-to-eye on Superior Spider-Man #30. In the words of Dan Slott, this is the most groundbreaking, life-altering podcast of all time

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I’ve put together another comic book list at WhatCulture, this time drawing inspiration from the dozens of different Spider-Men featured in Marvel’s “Spider-Verse” promotion as a means to rank my 10 favorite Spider-Man costumes. To create this totally subjective and arbitrary listing, I considered the costume’s historical significance, along

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In celebration of Superior Spider-Man’s “Goblin Nation” arc, over the next two months, I’m going to acknowledge what I consider to be the 10 best Green Goblin/Spider-Man storylines. I’m creating this list based on a full array of arbitrary, unscientific criteria: namely historical significance, artwork, creativity and my overall enjoyment of the

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Today, for the 53rd time in franchise history, the New York Mets will take the field for Opening Day. And thus begins my annual ritual of being disappointed from April until late September/October, with occasional blips of indescribable euphoria mixed in. As I’ve alluded to in the past, baseball,

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After a brief hiatus, I’m back with my Gimmick or Good? column at Comics Should Be Good, this time looking at one of the most famous books of the 90s: Ghost Rider #15 by Howard Mackie and Mark Texeira. This comic is Marvel’s very first glow-in-the-dark cover and is

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Superior Spider-Man Team-Up currently exists this weird in-between zone where the end of the main “Superior” book has forced this series to run out the clock a bit until its cancellation in April. As a result, I’ve been a little anxious about what we were going to be getting

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The Superior Spider-Man ride hasn’t always been a smooth one, and as recently as two weeks ago, I was starting to truly question the direction of this series and how it would transition in a rebooted “Amazing” era next month. But in Superior Spider-Man #30, Dan Slott, as he’s

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