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...
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
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....
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...