Spider-Man Guest Appearances Archive

Chasing Amazing was barely a few months old when the first Captain America movie was released in 2011, but I inadvertently started a trend when I wrote this post about my personal relationship to Cap to coincide with the film’s opening day. In the years that have followed, I’ve

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For the past year and change, the “Superior” status quo has made the Spider-verse a topsy turvy place – you know, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria! And yet, after 14 months of Otto Octavius’s presence inside of Peter Parker’s body, I think his appearance in

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I haven’t written about Mighty Avengers since its first issue, but given how its most recent storyline feels connected to some of the larger things happening to the Superior Spider-Man character in his own series, I figured Mighty Avengers #5 was worth a quick dissection from yours truly. Much to my

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Consider this entry not so much a piece of thoughtful analysis, but rather an open question to my readers: So what’s your takeaway of this scene from Avengers #24 (Now!)? It’s Captain America and Iron Man look at their board of Avengers team members and debating how many empty

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In the Indestructible Hulk Special #1, the second part of the Superior Spider-Man-centric “Arms of the Octopus” arc, agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. use puppies as a means to calm the Hulk’s rage so he can change back into mild-mannered Dr. Bruce Banner. Sadly, the use of cute, adorable little puppies

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Even after reading All New X-Men Special #1 last week, the first installment of the one-shot traversing “Arms of the Octopus” storyline, which promotes the “return” of Doctor Octopus, I still don’t know exactly what this arc is hoping to accomplisht. Certainly on paper, the story offers a shocking

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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. For a full listing of all of Chasing Amazing’s content relating to this theme

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It’s probably a given that someone who calls himself a Spider-Man fan should have a real affinity for Spider-Man and his alter ego, Peter Parker. But beyond the superheroics of the “Web Slinger,” one of the biggest things about this comic book universe that has kept me hooked for

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So I’m back to this dance. It was inevitable in a month where I talk about Spider-Man and Avengers/X-Men crossovers that I would spill just a little bit more virtual ink on the topic of Spider-Man being an Avenger. For all you newbies out there, I’ve previously tackled the

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Finally, after more than six months of not having a single new comic book featuring Peter Parker as Spider-Man, I have to dip into a Wolverine title of all places to find flesh-and-blood, old-school, wise-cracking Spidey. And unlike the story we were all fed during the first few issues

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