Brian Michael Bendis Archive

The Brian Michael Bendis/Alex Maleev run on Daredevil from the early 2000s is considered one of the greatest creative stints in modern comic book history. So on ComicBook.com, I picked out the 10 greatest moments from the celebrated run and ranked them based on importance to the character and

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Chasing Amazing’s ongoing look back at some of Spider-Man’s most important underworld stories is expanding its horizons in this latest entry. This time around, we’re leaving the comfortable confines of the 616 universe and traveling the Multiverse all the way over to Ultimate Spider-Man. After just introducing the “Ultimate”

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This next reader request comes from Elias_A on Twitter: @ChasingASMBlog Reign, or Ultimate #13! Or that time Spidey teamed up with Loki! — Elias_A (@EliasPawluk) November 12, 2014 Like Caleb yesterday, Elias let me choose from a few stories. And while this blog has long turned its nose up at the

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If you like epically staged and beautifully illustrated fights between heroes and villains, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #4 is definitely the comic for you. However, I’m still having a hard time getting too invested in this storyline because of the way Brian Michael Bendis continues to pace things. And

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The narrative continues to be unveiled at an incremental rate in Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man, though unlike last month, issue #3 revs up the tension by giving readers a fair amount of the recently resurrected Green Goblin/Norman Osborn. It still feels monumentally unfair that in the Ultimate Universe

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Two issues into my new campaign to share my thoughts on the Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man series, and I’m already starting to understand some of the inherent challenges that will come with such an endeavor. Brian Michael Bendis is a very good comic book writer, and seems to

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I believe the last time I wrote about the Marvel’s Ultimate line, Chasing Amazing was still in its infancy, and I was more concerned about how the storyline in question – the death of Ultimate Peter Parker – was drawing inspiration from some of the bad gimmicks of the 1990s

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House of M is yet another in a long line of mini-series/events Marvel produced in the early-to-mid 2000s that was off my radar thanks in large part to the fact that I had only JUST started to get back into buying monthly Spider-Man comic books at the same time

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As part of Chasing Amazing’s X-Men/Avengers 50th anniversary celebration in September, the site is reposting older posts that relate to these great franchises. This post is originally from July 1, 2013. With the Raft supervillain prison being such a focal point in the current Superior Spider-Man arc, I thought

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This post was originally published August 17, 2012 I’ve mostly ignored the bulk of Avengers comic books since Spider-Man joined the group a few years ago, mostly based on the fact that I had some personal objections to the idea of Spidey being a regular member of a super-team.

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