If you’re going to set out on a journey, you need to know where your destination is going to be. Even if you’re not 100 percent sure how you’re going to get there, how long it’s going to take, and how many stops along the way you’re going to make.
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I feel like I’ve been saying this a bunch lately so apologies for the redundancy, but I probably would have quit writing Chasing Amazing years ago if I didn’t get the sense that there was a passionate readership out there that was actually engaged in this Quixotian “quest” of
I’ve been thinking about this post for a long time. In literal terms, I’ve been sitting on this post since last August, unable to put words on a page for a number of reasons, many of which were beyond my control. But more broadly, I’ve been thinking about what
As someone who is always thinking of ways to develop and schedule content for my site, I must admit that I’ve been sitting on my purchase of Amazing Spider-Man #16 for a couple of months now. It’s not that I wasn’t excited by the fact that my remaining chase
This is a totally unoriginal thought, but the exhibitor area at New York Comic Con is a terrible place to buy comic books. Not because there aren’t plenty of people selling comic books – I could walk two feet and find someone hawking some cherished issues of Spider-Man like
There are times in my life when I feel like I’m fighting a giant sand monster armed with only a fly swatter and a paper cup. I am currently living in one of these moments, so it’s totally serendipitous that my “remaining chase” has been narrowed down to just
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to cross off another vintage copy of Amazing Spider-Man and narrow my chase down by another issue, but I was able to do just that when Santa delivered ASM #21 in VG/FN condition this past Christmas. Receiving this comic book made
There’s been enough talk about taxes from our 24/7 media cycle that I’m not about to start discussing whether I think they’re “good” or “bad.” With that said, my annual visit to my accountant to file my income taxes has become a tradition stoked with manic anticipation that is
The chase was supposed to be on hiatus. At least that was the stance I was taking after my son was born in November and the last of my expendable income was being siphoned towards club packs of diapers and jumbo canisters of powdered formula (come on kid, how