Let me start this post off with a quick programming note. As I referred to on Twitter the other day ( are you following Chasing Amazing on Twitter? Yes? Great. No? What’s wrong with you),...
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One Person's Quest To Collect Every Issue of Amazing Spider-Man
In the previous installment of Spider Island: Spider-Girl I talked about how we all seem to gravitate to a bad guy gone good (or as AMC’s Breaking Bad demonstrates, a good guy, gone bad). It’s...
The idea of who is an actual “super” hero was a common theme throughout the Spider Island storyline considering the focal point of the arc was the fact that the entirety of Manhattan was overrun...
In an effort to plow through the plethora of Spider Island tie-ins and miniseries before the storyline ends, I thought I would combine my take on the second and third installments of the Cloak and...
What better way to mark Halloween here on Chasing Amazing than with this iconic comic, Amazing Spider-Man #39? The featured villain here is the Green Goblin, a ghoulish adversary who uses pumpkin bombs as his...
When I recently discussed how my odd obsession with Amazing Spider-Man #32 had some negative repercussions on my collection, I had ASM #25 in mind. While common logic would dictate that one comic book has...
Good old J. Jonah Jameson, aka Jolly Jonah, has been such a critical part of the Spider-Man universe, really since day one, that it truly was inevitable that he was going to play a large...
In a continuation from my post about Venom #7 yesterday , I decided to reach ALL the way back in the vault to the distant 1990s to revisit the first-time Spider-Man and the Venom symbiote...
Since the Venom series kicked off earlier this year, writer Rick Rememder has continually found new and interesting ways to challenge typical definitions of a comic book “good guy” using Flash Thompson as the military-sanctioned...
Considering I was only 7-years-old when I first started picking up Amazing Spider-Man comic books, I’m always impressed by a number of issues I’ve dubbed my “survivors.” These are comics that I picked up when...