What’s so unique about Amazing Spider-Man #239 is how writer Roger Stern takes his new creation, the Hobgoblin, and expertly crafts the villain as a legitimate physical and psychological threat to Spider-Man, while also exposing...
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
How does Marvel have its cake and eat it too when it comes to sticking to its guns about the new “Superior” status quo change while also pleasing hardcore Peter Parker fans who are desperate...
While it's fun to get a chance to write about comic book series other than Spider-Man, I'll be the first to admit that I have the most fun when I'm talking about my all-time favorite...
Complaining on the Internet about Marvel’s “big events” has almost become as clichéd as the big events themselves. In fact, since joining the blogosphere in 2011, I’m yet to experience a crossover event that was...
Whenever I’m reading the newest issue of Superior Spider-Man, there’s always a few moments where I’m chuckling to myself. I’m chuckling because there’s a bit of dialogue or an action sequence that I just find...
Granted, I’m aided by the power of 20-20 hindsight, but there’s something about Amazing Spider-Man #238 that just comes across as being “special.” Even from a collectability standpoint – when I first started buying pricier...
I wanted to do something "special" to mark Superior Spider-Man month beyond just writing about all the new titles Marvel is currently pumping out. While I've recently started to retro-review/wax poetic about some story-arcs in...
Last summer, we celebrated the 50 th anniversary of the debut of Spider-Man. Today marks the 50 th anniversary of the debut of Spider-Man … err, Doctor Octopus, aka, the SUPERIOR Spider-Man. In honor of...
Today's Gimmick or Good? at CBR's Comics Should Be Good blog is a quadruple feature. On the heels of CSBG's most excellent top 50 Avengers stories list , I took a look at the four...
In Superior Foes of Spider-Man #1 , the reader is asked to lend some sympathy to lifelong D-list crook Boomerang, aka Fred Meyers, a former baseball player who threw games, and then took to throwing...