symbiote Archive

We have arrived at the final installment of my summer overview of the “Alien Costume Saga,” and I hope it’s been as much fun for you all as last year’s “Original Hobgoblin Saga” retrospective. Maybe next year, I’ll pick a run of issues that don’t fall within the 1983-84

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After a brief diversion the past few posts, Chasing Amazing’s “One Month” marches on as we tackle 1985’s Web of Spider-Man #1. Web of was the first Spider-Man ongoing series to launch during my lifetime and was the replacement of Marvel Team-Up. Web of is a series that has

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Over the past two weeks, when I looked back at the two-part Amazing Spider-Man #374-375, I bemoaned the David Michelinie/Mark Bagley collaboration as the “last great Venom story of the 90s.” Notice how I made sure to set an arbitrary cutoff at the 1990s, because despite how poorly (and

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Just as an addendum to my post earlier this week about the Venom symbiote not belonging anywhere near a supergroup of superheroes like the Avengers, I thought I’d look back at the issue of Amazing Spider-Man where we discovered that there was, indeed, something a bit suspicious about that

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Before there was Spider Island, there was Maximum Carnage, a major Spidey-centric Marvel crossover “event” from the 1990s. Split into 14-parts and featuring prominent guest appearances from the likes of Captain America, Venom, Morbius the Vampire, Iron Fist and more, Maximum Carnage may go down as one of the

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One of the biggest changes involving the Venom character since his inception in the late 1980s is the changing of the guard of-sorts involving who is actually wearing the black alien symbiote. Eddie Brock, the original Venom, has separated himself from the symbiote and his superpowered alter-ego is known

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Like most of my earliest comic book purchases, I picked up a copy of ASM 300 when it first came out at the local corner candy/tobacco shop in my hometown of East Rockaway, NY. A few months earlier, I had purchased what went on to be the first two

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It was probably a year or so before the first Spider-Man movie with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst was released when my then-girlfriend, now wife and I were at my parents’ house on a Saturday night for dinner. Typically, my mom always puts some coffee and dessert out after

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