My most recent submission for Gimmick or Good? over at the Comics Should Be Good blog is a bit of a deeper cut. Crazyman #1, which was published by Continuity Comics (founded by Neal Adams)...
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.
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For anyone who’s a fan of the fun anarchistic version of Venom that was a staple of early 90s Spider-Man comics, then Amazing Spider-Man #317 is the story for you. Insane Spider-Man vs. Venom battle...
It's a special edition of the Superior Spider-Talk podcast featuring exclusive audio from the Superior Spider-Man and Friends panel at New York Comic Con! In this episode, Dan Gvozden and I talk about the big...
Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #4 had some interesting things to say socially and culturally, but I have some serious questions about whether or not it was actually a “good” Spider-Man comic. I tend not to get...
Better late than never, the good people at Comics Should Be Good published my latest installment of "Gimmick or Good?" over New York Comic Con weekend, so for those of you who may have missed...
As good as Superior Foes of Spider-Man has been, after reading the fourth issue I now realize that the title is a serious misnomer. There are “foes” (plural) in terms of the existence of the...
Over the past few weeks, Marvel has been releasing a series of terse, one or two-word teasers for some of its new titles and storylines that were going to be announced at New York Comic...
Between the immense crowds and just my general exhaustion of canvassing the Jacob Javits Center like a maniac the past two days, I cut short my Saturday session at New York Comic Con. But I...
My Friday session at New York Comic Con mainly consisted of me fighting through the ever-growing crowds (I'm really shuddering to think what the Saturday session is going to look like) to talk with more...
Monday afternoons after school were always a drag for me growing up. Born and raised in a Roman Catholic household, my parents enrolled and demanded I attend weekly “religious education” classes every Monday from 3:30...