The “centennial” issues of Amazing Spider-Man are similar to the season finale of your favorite television show – they are often entertaining and there’s a certain level of importance assigned to them, but it’s very...
Category: Remembrance of Comics Past
As I’ve discussed countless times in the past, different comics have varying levels of significance to different people. For some, the 1994-95 arc “Back from the Edge,” which was published in Amazing and Spectacular Spider-Man...
In its infancy, Chasing Amazing was a blog that was as much about my collection of Amazing Spider-Man comics as it was about Spider-Man himself. But as is often the case in life, my site...
People who follow my Gimmick or Good exploits at the Comics Should Be Good blog should know that I’m no stranger to the foil/embossed/chromium/polybagged comics of yesteryear. And yet, the gold, foil-covered Amazing Spider-Man #375...
For the last installment of my Reader Request month I reluctantly turn to my Superior Spider-Talk podcast co-host, Dan Gvozden: @ChasingASMBlog WAR OF THE REPTILES. Period. — Dan Gvozden (@dangvozden) October 20, 2013 For those...
We’re in the final week of Reader Request Month. After doing some rather large arcs the past few weeks, I was a bit relieved when Gus Lindgren recommended a simple "one and done" story for...
This next installment of my “Reader Request Month” comes at the behest of Sean Carr on Twitter: @ChasingASMBlog I'd love to see #82 featured, its the first comic I ever read. — Seán Carr (@pnedotie)...
Monday afternoons after school were always a drag for me growing up. Born and raised in a Roman Catholic household, my parents enrolled and demanded I attend weekly “religious education” classes every Monday from 3:30...
Throughout the month of September, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Avengers and the Uncanny X-Men, I made a series of posts about Spider-Man interacting with the cast of these two iconic franchises....
I often get a kick out of looking back at some of the first comic books I ever purchased as a 7-year-old. I obviously talk a lot about Amazing Spider-Man #296 (my first ever Spidey...