Black Cat Archive

If you were to look up the term “transitory comic book issue” in the dictionary, you would probably get a picture of Amazing Spider-Man #16 – which is not necessarily a bad thing, especially after the past six months of exhausting, Multiverse-spanning stories that were the bread and butter

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In the first four issues of this new volume of Amazing Spider-Man, Dan Slott has introduced a number of significant plot points involving the likes of Peter Parker and Parker Industries, J. Jonah Jameson, Electro, Black Cat and the brand new character Silk. So given Slott’s track record in

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In many ways, I’ve been waiting all summer for my opportunity to write about this one specific issue, and despite the fact that I’m almost always let down by heightened anticipation, Amazing Spider-Man #257 is as good as I remember it being. For me, this comic is when the

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Dan Slott notoriously paced his Superior Spider-Man series so aggressively that it makes an issue like the recently-released Amazing Spider-Man #3 feel quiet and methodical in comparison. That’s certainly a strange thing to say about a comic that opens with a huge reveal revolving a character from Spider-Man’s past,

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The Kevin Smith/Terry Dodson controversial miniseries, Spider-Man/Black Cat: The Evil That Men Do, might be one of the hardest stories I’ve ever had to write about on Chasing Amazing, because I’m just utterly conflicted about its content, its presentation, and its writer. Let’s start with Smith, since people who

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Despite it usually clocking in as the “No. 3” romance in Spider-Man history (behind Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson), Spider-Man’s dalliance with Felicia Hardy, aka, the Black Cat, in the early/mid-1980s is arguably more interesting in terms of characterization and complexity than any others relationship in Spidey’s history.

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Every time I reach the end of Roger Stern and John Romita’s Spider-Man/Black Cat storyline in Amazing Spider-Man #226-227, I find myself feeling a bit melancholy. These comics are certainly not bawl your eyes out sad like ASM #121 or ASM #400, but Stern’s script so effectively taps into

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Just when you thought Chasing Amazing was done with theme months, I’ve decided to kick of another batch of loosely connected posts in June. Because the recently rebooted Amazing Spider-Man series is featuring Electro and Black Cat so prominently as part of its first arc, I thought I would

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Welcome back, your dreams were your ticket out. Welcome back, to that same old place that you laughed about. Not to make myself the focal point of the story here, but there was something inherently stressful and anxiety-inducing about my write-ups of Superior Spider-Man #30 and #31. After months

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The Amazing Spider-Man #700 “point one” bonanza continued last week with ASM #700.3, a story that was completely different in tone and mood from the two-part “Frost” arc by David Morrell and Klaus Janson. This time around, Joe Casey and Tim Green give us the first half of a

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