Ultimate Spider-Man Archive

Chasing Amazing’s ongoing look back at some of Spider-Man’s most important underworld stories is expanding its horizons in this latest entry. This time around, we’re leaving the comfortable confines of the 616 universe and traveling the Multiverse all the way over to Ultimate Spider-Man. After just introducing the “Ultimate”

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This next reader request comes from Elias_A on Twitter: @ChasingASMBlog Reign, or Ultimate #13! Or that time Spidey teamed up with Loki! — Elias_A (@EliasPawluk) November 12, 2014 Like Caleb yesterday, Elias let me choose from a few stories. And while this blog has long turned its nose up at the

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If you like epically staged and beautifully illustrated fights between heroes and villains, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #4 is definitely the comic for you. However, I’m still having a hard time getting too invested in this storyline because of the way Brian Michael Bendis continues to pace things. And

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The narrative continues to be unveiled at an incremental rate in Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man, though unlike last month, issue #3 revs up the tension by giving readers a fair amount of the recently resurrected Green Goblin/Norman Osborn. It still feels monumentally unfair that in the Ultimate Universe

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Two issues into my new campaign to share my thoughts on the Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man series, and I’m already starting to understand some of the inherent challenges that will come with such an endeavor. Brian Michael Bendis is a very good comic book writer, and seems to

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I believe the last time I wrote about the Marvel’s Ultimate line, Chasing Amazing was still in its infancy, and I was more concerned about how the storyline in question – the death of Ultimate Peter Parker – was drawing inspiration from some of the bad gimmicks of the 1990s

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Similar to last summer when Spider Island and all of its accompanying spin-offs inevitably told the better story with far less fanfare than Marvel’s “mega” event crossover Fear Itself, this year, the Spidey-focused mini-series Spider-Men seems to be far more satisfying than Marvel’s throw everyone into a pot and

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With the six-part Ultimate Fallout: Spider-Man No More series recently wrapped, I’ve been reminded why I’ve never been much of a fan of Marvel’s “Ultimate” universe. I guess it all comes down to a matter of taste. I’ve always been more of a traditionalist when it comes to my

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On more than one occasion, when I’ve used Chasing Amazing as a soap box and stand on to yell about some of the undesirable qualities of the comic book industry – its overuse of “special edition” issues marking new characters, deaths, variant covers, gimmick covers, etc. – I’ve had

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There’s not a lot in my life that’s managed to remain apolitical, but I would like to think my love of comic books and Spider-Man is one of last things that has more or less remained untainted by the cesspool that is Washington, DC, and the media punditocracy that

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