Reading Experience Archive

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 21, 2011. In the perpetual battle of superheroes versus supervillains, priority number one for the creative team is to build

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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 aligned themselves against a common foe. And while the partnership seemed to work in dispatching

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It’s arguably the most famous panel in Amazing Spider-Man history and quite possibly one of the greatest Marvel panels of all-time. “Face it tiger… You just hit the jackpot.” If only we knew how much of a jackpot Peter actually hit. Maybe it was all that talk I dedicated

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Because I recently picked up a copy of Amazing Spider-Man #18, and because I know there’s one specific Chasing Amazing reader who’s a big fan of this panel, I thought I’d highlight this specific exchange between Peter Parker and his Aunt May for today’s “Reading Experience” installment. It truly

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It’s possible that here on Chasing Amazing, I have a little bit of a villain fetish. I admit it. I love supervillains. As much as I love the compelling backstory of Peter Parker/Spider-Man, like any good popcorn-munching, entertainment-seeking lemming, I need to see things go “boom.” That’s where supervillains

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Considering how much pain and suffering Peter Parker has had to endure because of his secret life of Spider-Man, I’m always filled with the warm and fuzzies when something goes right for him. When Marvel transitioned to the Brand New Day story-arc a few years back, the rotating crew

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I thought we’d get a bit thematic here at Chasing Amazing and spend the week talking about one of Spider-Man’s most polarizing villains, Venom. In recent years, I’ve found that Venom has become a “love him or hate him” character in the Marvel universe, which makes sense given how

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As I’ve said before, a classic superhero needs a classic supervillain to play off of – a ying to their yang, and a nemesis that usually finds a way to make things personal. The Fantastic Four has Doctor Doom. Captain America has the Red Skull. Over in DC land,

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The beautiful thing about collecting comic books is you have a fully equipped library of classic pulp fiction waiting for you whenever you’re in the mood to read. And obviously, I would have never settled on being an Amazing Spider-Man collector, if I didn’t love to read Amazing Spider-Man

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