There’s a scene early on in Amazing Spider-Man #14 that speaks volumes as to why I’ve had so many problems with “Spider-Verse,” not only in terms of its construction and execution, but also its theme...
Category: New Issues
I have grown increasingly cranky regarding the state of “Spider-Verse” over the past month or so, finding the narrative to be lacking any forward thrust and the tie-ins to be either superfluous or overindulgent. So...
Dating back to the dawn of the “Marvel Age of Comics” in the 1960s, the self-proclaimed “House of Ideas,” has always prided itself of the scope and the epic-nature of its stories. The Fantastic Four...
Yes, it’s time for Chasing Amazing to talk about another Amazing Spider-Man Annual. I’ll spare you all the usual rants I make about annual issues and instead dive into my thoughts on Amazing Spider-Man Annual...
Since taking over as the full time writer of Spider-Man in 2010, Dan Slott has always had a penchant for thinking big and for not being afraid to break a few dozen eggs while making...
While it still leaps and bounds better than some of the issues we were getting prior to the onset of “Spider-Verse,” I can’t help but think of Amazing Spider-Man #10 as a bit of a...
I don’t ask for much in my Spider-Man comics. Ultimately, all I want is a reason to keep coming back, month after month – to get something out of a story that makes me look...
When it comes to the newly rebooted Amazing Spider-Man series, I sometimes feel like someone in the midst of the “five stages of grief” – trying to work my way through each stage until I...
And now back to our regularly scheduled programming ... With the first arc of the new Amazing Spider-Man title ending with such a resounding thud last month, it was going to take a pretty extraordinary...
I’ve been fairly harsh on the last three issues of the Amazing Spider-Man “Learning to Crawl” miniseries and was almost dreading the idea of reading the finale this week and trying to come up with...