Hobgoblin Archive

For a comprehensive gallery of all of the images featured on Chasing Amazing, along with other cool visuals I stumble upon while surfing the internet, be sure to follow my Pinterest page. Here are some visuals from my Hobgoblin page, which are all images featuring the Hobgoblin as he’s appeared in

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Alright, true believers. After spending the past few weeks harping on all of you to tell me some of your favorite Spider-Man storylines, Chasing Amazing’s second annual Reader Request Month is here! I can’t guarantee I’ll get to cover as many suggested stories as I did last year (seriously,

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Two-thirds of the way through its criminally short run, the Axis: Hobgoblin miniseries continues to be one of the smartest and funniest comics I’ve read this year this side of Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Kevin Shinick’s script just fires on all cylinders, delivering both traditional humor and more atypical meta-humor

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Ever since he was exposed as the actual Hobgoblin by Roger Stern and Ron Frenz during the Hobgoblin Lives miniseries in the late 1990s, Roderick Kingsley has remained a somewhat unmined source of stories for comic book creators. Sure, there was the Hobgoblin Lives follow-up, “Goblins at the Gate,”

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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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As Spider-Man fans, we are all too familiar with great storylines being decimated by editorial politics. My latest list at WhatCulture looks at 10 times throughout the industry when editorial interference ruined something we loved in comics. How many Spider-Man stories made the list? Click the link to find

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For a comprehensive gallery of all of the images featured on Chasing Amazing, along with other cool visuals I stumble upon while surfing the internet, be sure to follow my Pinterest page. Here are some visuals from my Giuseppe Camuncoli Spider-Man Art gallery, which are all images illustrated by Camuncoli in

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UPDATE: The second past of my Hobgoblin story is live on Comic Book Resources. As regular readers of this site should note, I have a bit of a Hobgoblin obsession. So much so that former Spider-book editor Jim Salicrup told me that I was acting like the backstory of

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If you haven’t yet checked out the brand new Superior Spider-Talk.com web site, I recommend that you do so right away. Now, that you’ve done that, please check out my inaugural edition of a regular feature I’m going to write for the site, “It Feels Like the First Time.”

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Since the general concept for “Goblin Nation” was first announced at New  York Comic Con in October, the storyline has been marketed by Superior Spider-Man writer Dan Slott and Marvel editorial as the Superior-era’s magnum opus. The hype surrounding the story was ratcheted up a few more levels when

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