Part three of my analysis of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series is up and ready for you to read on the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s web site. In this ongoing series, which runs every other Friday on Sequart, I look at “garden and wilderness” themes in Kirkman’s

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What’s so unique about Amazing Spider-Man #239 is how writer Roger Stern takes his new creation, the Hobgoblin, and expertly crafts the villain as a legitimate physical and psychological threat to Spider-Man, while also exposing the character’s vulnerabilities and weaknesses. In the 20 years of Spider-Man comics that preceded

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How does Marvel have its cake and eat it too when it comes to sticking to its guns about the new “Superior” status quo change while also pleasing hardcore Peter Parker fans who are desperate to see Petey back on the racks of their local comic book shop? The

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While it’s fun to get a chance to write about comic book series other than Spider-Man, I’ll be the first to admit that I have the most fun when I’m talking about my all-time favorite comic book hero, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Fortunately, in today’s Gimmick or Good? column

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Complaining on the Internet about Marvel’s “big events” has almost become as clichéd as the big events themselves. In fact, since joining the blogosphere in 2011, I’m yet to experience a crossover event that was viewed in a positive light from the majority of the comic book fans I

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Whenever I’m reading the newest issue of Superior Spider-Man, there’s always a few moments where I’m chuckling to myself. I’m chuckling because there’s a bit of dialogue or an action sequence that I just find humorous. I’m chuckling because I’m reading a comic book about Doctor Octopus attempting to

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Granted, I’m aided by the power of 20-20 hindsight, but there’s something about Amazing Spider-Man #238 that just comes across as being “special.” Even from a collectability standpoint – when I first started buying pricier back issues in the 1990s, I remember looking up ASM #238 in my Wizard

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I wanted to do something “special” to mark Superior Spider-Man month beyond just writing about all the new titles Marvel is currently pumping out. While I’ve recently started to retro-review/wax poetic about some story-arcs in full (as opposed to what I was doing when I first launched Chasing Amazing,

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Last summer, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the debut of Spider-Man. Today marks the 50th anniversary of the debut of Spider-Man … err, Doctor Octopus, aka, the SUPERIOR Spider-Man. In honor of the anniversary of Amazing Spider-Man #3’s release, I thought I’d put together a list of Doc

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Today’s Gimmick or Good? at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog is a quadruple feature. On the heels of CSBG’s most excellent top 50 Avengers stories list, I took a look at the four 30th anniversary Avengers comics from 1993 – #360, #363, #366 and #369. All four of

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