Marvel’s resurrection of the Amazing Spider-Man franchise this month was marketed to fans as the “return” of Peter Parker, one year after he was ingloriously killed off by Doctor Octopus in ASM #700 . Leading...
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
After a brief hiatus, my Gimmick or Good? column at Comics Should Be Good is back with a look back at 1993's The Maxx #1 , with pencils, inks and plot by Sam Kieth and...
It’s a shame that the editorial chaos that consumed Marvel in the mid-to-late 1980s (aka, the end of the Jim Shooter-era) often overshadows the actual content of Marvel comic books during this time period –...
After building up the most non-Carnage Carnage story in the character’s history , Marvel had a change of heart (or “chickened out” depending on your opinion of Mr. Cletus Kasady) in the fifth and final...
In an era where seemingly every single comic book series one way or another bleed into each other in an effort to create can’t miss “events,” I’ve found it amazing that outside of a few...
Happy weekend after Thanksgiving! Episode 24 of Superior Spider-Talk is now available to be downloaded and it's a special one. For one of our "Superior Spider-Talk and Our Amazing Friends" episodes, we interview David Morrell...
For the last installment of my Reader Request month I reluctantly turn to my Superior Spider-Talk podcast co-host, Dan Gvozden: @ChasingASMBlog WAR OF THE REPTILES. Period. — Dan Gvozden (@dangvozden) October 20, 2013 For those...
When it comes to the Superior Spider-Man Team-Up series, I remain a critical outlier. The series has done very little to engage me since it officially transitioned from Avenging Spider-Man to Team-Up, and the most...
We’re in the final week of Reader Request Month. After doing some rather large arcs the past few weeks, I was a bit relieved when Gus Lindgren recommended a simple "one and done" story for...
Don't look now, but Episode 23 of the Superior Spider-Talk podcast is here! In this episode, Dan Gvozden and I talk about Superior Spider-Man #21, and talk about the latest Spider-Man news, including a certain...