Chasing Amazing is taking over the Internet (not really, but a boy can dream, right?). Have you been keeping up with my Gimmick or Good? feature at Comics Should Be Good (at Comic Book Resources)?...
Chasing Amazing
One Person's Quest To Collect Every Issue of Amazing Spider-Man
I'm happy to announce that the first of two posts I wrote have been published on one of my personal favorite comic book sites, Longbox Graveyard . The post looks at the first half of...
I’ve consistently told myself I’m not one of “those” fans. I’m sure some of you out there know exactly who I’m talking about – comic book enthusiasts who take their enthusiasm a little too personally....
In the two-plus years I’ve been recording my chase to collect every single issue of Amazing Spider-Man, I’ve talked so much about my desire to own ASM #1 that I don’t know if I’ve ever...
(hat tip to the awesome folks at Spiderfan.org for helping me to read a version of this issue. Meanwhile, it's been more than two weeks Marvel subscriber services ... come on now). Superior Spider-Man is...
When I first started to get more emotionally invested into comic books, I often defined the authorship of the issue by the artist. For Amazing Spider-Man, there was the Todd McFarlane era followed by the...
I was recently thinking that the Scarlet Spider series was in many ways, the most well-rounded and intelligently plotted Spider-Man universe comic books on the market right now. While I still believe that, I must...
I haven’t written all that much about Flash Thompson’s escapades as killer symbiote Venom since Rick Remender left the title last year. It’s not that I haven’t been enjoying Venom – Cullen Bunn is having...
The mid-1990s were not a pleasant time for Marvel or its Amazing Spider-Man franchise. I’ve mentioned in the past that the Clone Saga really was a pivotal moment for me as a Spidey fan, in...
I'm excited to announce what will hopefully be a recurring column that will feature some of my writing outside the usual confines of Chasing Amazing. Here's the first installment of "Gimmick or Good?" over at...