Years before the birth of my son, I was told that nothing changes how a person views the world quite like having a child. While this idea always made a great deal of sense to...
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
Another really cool ASM #700 variant? Just take my money already! Over the past two months, I’ve been stricken with an unexpected affliction that I hope breaks soon. I’m addicted to Amazing Spider-Man #700 variant...
I'm guest blogging again at the fantastic Escape Pod Comics site, this time talking about the involuntary memories invoked by my comic book collection . Check it out and everything else at Escape Pod.
The “tribute” to a national tragedy comic book issue has always come across to me as a very slippery slope for the superhero medium. Of course, I can’t think about one of these “very special”...
Spider-Man has long been perceived as a superhero comic book, but at its core, it’s also a love story. More so than any other comic book I can think of, there has always been an...
It’s rare for a comic book to bring me such joy and frustration simultaneously as Superior Spider-Man #2, but the heart wants what the heart wants, so while I can’t necessarily sing the issues praises...
For characters who have been spawned from the Amazing Spider-Man series, Morbius the Living Vampire has always been on the lower end of my emotional attachment scale. It’s not that he doesn’t have an interesting...
While Spider-Man is my passion and my collection primarily consists of Amazing Spider-Man comic books, like any good "geek," I will branch out to other titles and franchises for entertainment. Walking Dead is one of...
One of the first “Remembrance of Comics Past” posts I made on this blog was a story about a big box of comics I received from a friend of a friend that contained more than...
When it became abundantly clear at the end of Amazing Spider-Man #700 that the role of Spider-Man was now going to be played by an in-control-of-Peter-Parker’s-body Doctor Octopus, beyond “what’s going to happen to Peter,”...