clone saga Archive

Hopefully my “Lost Gems” series on SuperiorSpiderTalk.com has been bringing you some holiday joy. Check out my latest two entries in the series: Spider-Man: The Lost Years miniseries by J.M. DeMatteis and John Romita Jr. “To Squash a Spider” (Amazing Spider-Man #66-67) by Stan Lee and John Romita Enjoy

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My ongoing series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the infamous Spider-Man “Clone Saga” is currently being featured at SuperiorSpiderTalk.com. Please check out some of my latest “Clone Saga Callback” entries in this difficult to write (but also quite fun) retrospective of what many consider one of the worst Spidey

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If you thought I was done with my “Clone Saga Callback” series just because I never wrote about the “Web of Death” storyline in which Doctor Octopus saves Peter Parker’s life before getting murdered by the mysterious Kaine, think again. I actually wrote about “Web of Death” two summers

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We’re now into the third full arc (or at least the third full installment) of the “Clone Saga” and I think the four-part “Web of Life” is the first indication that there were some serious flaws with the long-term planning of this storyline. It would still be quite some

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After formally reintroducing the clone in the “Power and Responsibility” arc the month before, Marvel immediately starting mixing things up a bit with its Spider-books in order to advance the “Clone Saga.” While Peter Parker continued his descent into madness in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man

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Today marks the first entry in an ongoing project for Chasing Amazing that I hope I don’t come to regret. Twenty years ago this month, the Spider-Verse’s status quo was turned upside down with Web of Spider-Man #117, the first part of the “Power and Responsibility” arc. For those

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Spider-Man’s “Clone Saga” arc from the 1990s gets a lot of hate around the internet (including this site), but on ComicBook.com I make the argument that it really isn’t that bad. With the storyline celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, I examine 10 things/storylines during the “Clone Saga” that

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I am nothing if not a slave to tradition. Unfortunately, I had some legitimate struggles this time around trying to tie today’s Chasing Amazing post with the latest Marvel Cinematic Universe movie, X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of options in terms of

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With the Superior Spider-Man barreling towards its conclusion in a few weeks and Peter Parker still struggling to remember who he is, I thought I would like back at times Spider-Man overcame insurmountable odds … and the times he flat out quit on the job. This latest “5 and

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Super Blog Team-Up #5 of 6 If Joss Wheedon’s The Avengers taught me anything, it’s that a surefire way to improve on a bunch of individual superhero properties is to team them up in some kind of big budget bonanza. That’s why I’m pleased to announce that Chasing Amazing is

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