Ho ho ho true believers! Hope everyone reading Chasing Amazing is having a great holiday season. Just in case you haven’t gotten your fill of stories of Santa Claus and Christmas miracles, on ComicBook.com I’ve ranked 12 of the best superhero holiday tales of all time. Enjoy those and

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Reader Request month 2014 edition is in its penultimate week so we’ll be rifling through some of these as time allows. For our next installment, I I took a request from Chasing Amazing/Amazing Spider-Talk superfan, Thomas Aiello who, via my site’s Facebook page, recommended Amazing Spider-Man #187 by Marv Wolfman,

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The relentlessly funny Axis: Hobgoblin miniseries reached its finale last week, ending on a somewhat inconclusive note that gives me hope that perhaps there’s life after Axis for Roderick Kingsley (as long as Kevin Shinick and Javier Rodriguez remain the creative team). Even when the third and final issue wasn’t firing

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We Spider-Man fans are already used to outbreak storylines (see “Spider Island”). However, in the world of Justice League right now, the eerie Amazo Virus is running rampant through Metropolis. So, on ComicBook.Com I thought I would rank the comic book world’s five deadliest and most famous diseases.

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Dennis Hopeless’s take on Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman, continues to be the series I believe I have no business liking as much as I do. As I mentioned in my write-up on last month’s Spider-Woman #1, I’ve never been much of a fan of Jessica as a character and always

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“Spider-Verse” is hitting its stride, and Dan Gvozden and I are here to chit chat about in the latest episode of Amazing Spider-Talk, available on superiorspidertalk.com. This time around, Dan and I talk Amazing Spider-Man #11 (vol. 3), Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (vol. 3), some breaking spider news and

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Two issues in the Scarlet Spiders miniseries from Mike Costa and Paco Diaz is shaping up to be a worthwhile complimentary piece to the larger “Spider-Verse” arc – with a narrative that comes across as being far more consequential than the fun but flimsy Spider-Verse Team-Up mini that came

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Writer Kelly Sue DeConnick is the definition of a rising star in the comic book industry, having scripted some of the hottest series including Captain Marvel and Pretty Deadly. To mark the release of her newest creator owned series, Bitch Planet, on ComicBook.com I’ve ranked the five best KSD

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Entry number three in the 2014 edition of Reader Request Month is a personal favorite issue of mine that was suggested to me by Justin Moosh on Twitter: @ChasingASMBlog asm 153 is my favorite — Justin Moosh (@justin_moosh) December 3, 2014 Beyond the fact that I’m a huge fan

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I had high praise for last year’s Superior Carnage miniseries, but I remember thinking it ended on a bit of flat note in how it essentially reinstalled Carnage/Cletus Kasady’s same-old played-out status quo. So when approching the final chapter of the Rick Spears/German Peralta Axis: Carnage mini – another

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