Spidey Spin Offs Archive

The past three issues of Marvel’s new Venom series have unexpectedly gotten me hooked, so I’m not ashamed to say I was looking forward to seeing how the comic was going to be tied-in to the greater Spider-Island storyline. After reading Venom #6, I came away thinking that the

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Let me preface this by saying of all of the Spider Island tie-ins slated to be in the rotation, probably the one I was least looking forward to reading was the Spider-Girl miniseries. Just as a general rule of thumb, I’ve never been terribly engaged by the idea of

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One of the interesting things about the numerous miniseries being pumped out by Marvel that are connected to Amazing Spider-Man’s Spider Island story-arc is it gives me, the reader, an opportunity to get acquainted or reacquainted with some characters that I’ve otherwise ignored or forgotten about. Of course this

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The Deadly Foes one-shot serves to tie-in the two main antagonists who will be involved in the Spider Island storyline: Hobgoblin and the Jackal. Both can be classified as “classic” Spider-Man villains, though I’m certain the bulk of ASM’s readership over the past 30-years or so views each of

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If I’ve learned anything from popular culture is that a fictitious bully character has to have a back-story that generates a little bit of sympathy, or at least a better understanding of why the bully bullies. Considering there have been plenty of real-life cases of bullying where they bullies

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One of the biggest changes involving the Venom character since his inception in the late 1980s is the changing of the guard of-sorts involving who is actually wearing the black alien symbiote. Eddie Brock, the original Venom, has separated himself from the symbiote and his superpowered alter-ego is known

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So I’m breaking my own rule and despite the fact that Spider-Man is still yet to play a significant role in any of the new FF (nee Fantastic Four) being pumped out by Marvel and writer, Jonathan Hickman, I still want to dedicate a post on the series. What

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As you might have guessed from the décor around here, Chasing Amazing is a blog about Spider-Man comic books. While I originally intended to keep my focus on this site to the very narrow world of Amazing Spider-Man comics, I’m also a very pragmatic person, so I understood in

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A superhero comic is pointless without supervillains. They are the jelly to the hero’s peanut butter sandwich, the decanter that allows a fine red wine to breathe and evolve (though I wouldn’t recommend a fine red wine with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich). Spider-Man has always had his

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When Marvel announced a few months ago that Spider-Man would be joining the Fantastic Four – now calling themselves the “Future Foundation” in the wake of the death of their youngest team member Human Torch/Johnny Storm, I didn’t even debate my next move: I called up Marvel and subscribed

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