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I’m happy to announce that the first of two posts I wrote have been published on one of my personal favorite comic book sites, Longbox Graveyard. The post looks at the first half of my top 10 Spider-Man battles. Regular readers of Chasing Amazing may recognize some of my

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I’ve consistently told myself I’m not one of “those” fans. I’m sure some of you out there know exactly who I’m talking about – comic book enthusiasts who take their enthusiasm a little too personally. The most extreme version of “those” fans are the ones that send death threats

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In the two-plus years I’ve been recording my chase to collect every single issue of Amazing Spider-Man, I’ve talked so much about my desire to own ASM #1 that I don’t know if I’ve ever actually talked about the actual contents of the comic. And that’s a tragic oversight

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(hat tip to the awesome folks at Spiderfan.org for helping me to read a version of this issue. Meanwhile, it’s been more than two weeks Marvel subscriber services … come on now).  Superior Spider-Man is a comic book title sporting a seemingly higher body count than its predecessor, Amazing

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When I first started to get more emotionally invested into comic books, I often defined the authorship of the issue by the artist. For Amazing Spider-Man, there was the Todd McFarlane era followed by the Erik Larsen era and then the Mark Bagley era before giving way to a

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I was recently thinking that the Scarlet Spider series was in many ways, the most well-rounded and intelligently plotted Spider-Man universe comic books on the market right now. While I still believe that, I must admit I was a little surprised when the series took a shocking left turn

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I haven’t written all that much about Flash Thompson’s escapades as killer symbiote Venom since Rick Remender left the title last year. It’s not that I haven’t been enjoying Venom – Cullen Bunn is having some fun with the series, though in a much more straight-forward action-adventurey way than

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The mid-1990s were not a pleasant time for Marvel or its Amazing Spider-Man franchise. I’ve mentioned in the past that the Clone Saga really was a pivotal moment for me as a Spidey fan, in a negative sense. And when it was revealed, initially, that Ben Reilly was the

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I’m excited to announce what will hopefully be a recurring column that will feature some of my writing outside the usual confines of Chasing Amazing. Here’s the first installment of “Gimmick or Good?” over at the Comics Should Be Good blog, which is part of the Comic Book Resources

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Superior Spider-Man is hardly a flawless comic book series, but I think it’s a very good one, especially when the focus of the story is more on Otto Octavius combating Peter Parker’s instincts and ethics as Spider-Man, rather than physically combating some astral form of Peter instead. Of the

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