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 ....
Tag: symbiote
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...