I’m concluding my run of “stand up and cheer moments” with what I hope will be an obvious choice – one of the most famous and iconic moments in Amazing Spider-Man history, and perhaps the...
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
When Peter Parker’s Uncle Ben died in the origin story of Spider-Man (Amazing Fantasy #15) because Peter earlier in the story willfully failed to apprehend the criminal who went on to kill his Uncle –...
As was demonstrated in Spider-Man’s confrontation with Morlun, and his much ballyhooed battle with the Juggernaut, when the odds are the most stacked against the Web Slinger, he always has his intellect to help him...
Chasing Amazing is back online after spending a week and change taking care of my newborn son John. Sorry for the radio silence since then, but I’m sure the vast bulk of you understand. And...
Remember back in September when I said my "chase" may be going on hiatus for a little bit because I was expecting a baby? Well, like any man of integrity, I wasn't lying. On Tuesday,...
Amazing Spider-Man’s J. Michael Straczynski era kicked off with one of my favorite storylines of all time and, as such, the first entry in my “stand up and cheer” series . While recent ASM writers...
You’ll often hear me discuss specific themes and storytelling devices utilized by writers and creative teams that have kept me hooked on Amazing Spider-Man for more than 20 years. I’ll talk about character developments, or...
As we approach the fantastic finish of Spider Island (I swear, I’m going to get some write-ups on the remaining three ASM’s just as soon as Marvel’s subscription services department drops the damn things in...
I haven’t written about this series in a long while and considering this is a Spider-Man site first and foremost, it's with good reason. With so much of the title’s focus on multiple Reed Richards...
Let me start this post off with a quick programming note. As I referred to on Twitter the other day ( are you following Chasing Amazing on Twitter? Yes? Great. No? What’s wrong with you),...