In the previous installment of Spider Island: Spider-Girl I talked about how we all seem to gravitate to a bad guy gone good (or as AMC’s Breaking Bad demonstrates, a good guy, gone bad). It’s...
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
The idea of who is an actual “super” hero was a common theme throughout the Spider Island storyline considering the focal point of the arc was the fact that the entirety of Manhattan was overrun...
In an effort to plow through the plethora of Spider Island tie-ins and miniseries before the storyline ends, I thought I would combine my take on the second and third installments of the Cloak and...
What better way to mark Halloween here on Chasing Amazing than with this iconic comic, Amazing Spider-Man #39? The featured villain here is the Green Goblin, a ghoulish adversary who uses pumpkin bombs as his...
When I recently discussed how my odd obsession with Amazing Spider-Man #32 had some negative repercussions on my collection, I had ASM #25 in mind. While common logic would dictate that one comic book has...
Good old J. Jonah Jameson, aka Jolly Jonah, has been such a critical part of the Spider-Man universe, really since day one, that it truly was inevitable that he was going to play a large...
In a continuation from my post about Venom #7 yesterday , I decided to reach ALL the way back in the vault to the distant 1990s to revisit the first-time Spider-Man and the Venom symbiote...
Since the Venom series kicked off earlier this year, writer Rick Rememder has continually found new and interesting ways to challenge typical definitions of a comic book “good guy” using Flash Thompson as the military-sanctioned...
Considering I was only 7-years-old when I first started picking up Amazing Spider-Man comic books, I’m always impressed by a number of issues I’ve dubbed my “survivors.” These are comics that I picked up when...
It’s arguably the most famous panel in Amazing Spider-Man history and quite possibly one of the greatest Marvel panels of all-time. “Face it tiger... You just hit the jackpot.” If only we knew how much...