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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 Doctor Octopus page, which are images of Doc Ock from various Spider-Man

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For the past year and change, the “Superior” status quo has made the Spider-verse a topsy turvy place – you know, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! And yet, after 14 months of Otto Octavius’s presence inside of Peter Parker’s body, I think his appearance in

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I am very happy and pleased to announce that Episode 31 of Superior Spider-Talk is available for download. In this installment, Dan Gvozden and I speak with the legendary Gerry Conway, author of such iconic comic book stories as “The Night Gwen Stacy Died” (Amazing Spider-Man #121) and “The

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Gimmick or Good? is back this week with a look at the Tom DeFalco/Paul Ryan era on Marvel’s “first family” the Fantastic Four. In this installment, I look at a five-part arc (FF #371-375) that featured two separate gimmick covers as book ends, and whole slew of controversial changes

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I have felt many things for the Superior Spider-Man since this series first launched last year: curiosity, frustration, disgust, shock, surprise, joy … pick your adjective. Except sympathy. As much as we are living an era filled with anti-heroes that we have been conditioned to cheer for like Walter

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I’m happy to announce that I was recently invited by the fine folks of WhatCulture.com to contribute some comic book-related lists and other related content to their high profile web site. Today, my inaugural feature was published, a top 10 list of the worst things the Green Goblin has

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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 J. Jonah Jameson gallery: Related Posts: Top 10 Favorite Steve Ditko Spider-Man

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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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When we entered the “Superior” era last year, one thing I thought would be explored with a bit more frequency is the idea that Peter Parker and Otto Octavius are two very similar characters that inevitably took divergent paths from each other as hero and villain thanks to one

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As the great Brian Cronin continues to spotlight African American comics throughout February on Comics Should Be Good, I thought I would use “Gimmick or Good?” to analyze the greatest selling comic by African American creators of all time, Image’s Tribe #1. Created by Todd Johnson and Larry Stroman,

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