Retcons are often the lifeblood of comic book storytelling. I mean, who doesn’t appreciate somebody fixing the mistakes of a previous editorial regime by wiping that older story from existence? While I can understand some...
Category: Blind Spots
Until Roger Stern wrote the “Hobgoblin Lives” mini-series in 1997, Ned Leeds, as revealed in Amazing Spider-Man #289 , was the Hobgoblin. The dogged reporter, who was known to have a mean streak whenever another...
Like every other comic book fan with a pulse, I truly enjoyed last summer's Avengers movie and nearly leapt out of my seat at the very end when (*spoiler*) THANOS showed up in the teaser....
When I read a few months ago that July’s “dramatic” new status quo shift in Superior Spider-Man #14 would deal with “Shadowland,” I had to rack my brain for a minute to know what the...
Wolverine has always been a complicated character for me to have a reader-relationship with – and that’s just par for the course for a mysterious anti-hero whose entire shtick is predicated on the fact that...
In Superior Foes of Spider-Man #1 , the reader is asked to lend some sympathy to lifelong D-list crook Boomerang, aka Fred Meyers, a former baseball player who threw games, and then took to throwing...
A majority of the Spectacular Spider-Man series remains my most shameful “blind spot” since the title churned out so many quality stories, especially during the 1980s and early 1990s. Some of my favorite all-time writers...
The first 12 issues of Marvel Knights” Spider-Man is exactly why I wanted to start doing a recurring column on many of the Spidey “B” titles that I’ve neglected to write about since launching Chasing...
As I hope most of you are aware, the name of this blog is Chasing Amazing. And while that might sound like a pun on the title of a Kevin Smith movie , the adjective...
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...
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