Todd McFarlane Archive

Better late than never, the good people at Comics Should Be Good published my latest installment of “Gimmick or Good?” over New York Comic Con weekend, so for those of you who may have missed my column the first time around, may I present to you my thoughts on

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Monday afternoons after school were always a drag for me growing up. Born and raised in a Roman Catholic household, my parents enrolled and demanded I attend weekly “religious education” classes every Monday from 3:30 to 4:30 at the church that was just a few blocks away from my

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I think I’ve been pigeon-holing myself a bit with the retro-comics I’ve been writing about over the past few months: the original Hobgoblin Saga review over the summer and last month’s Avengers/X-Men 50th anniversary posts. So with that in mind, I’m not going to “officially” declare October, “Venom Month.”

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Jim Salicrup, editor-in-chief of Papercutz and a former Marvel editor who oversaw the Spider-Man titles for years (and who hired superstar artist Todd McFarlane to illustrate Amazing Spider-Man), sat down with Dan Gvozden and I at the Connecticut ComiCONN event in Trumbull, CT, last weekend. The interview has just

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In honor of Independence Day, I thought it was appropriate to discuss Amazing Spider-Man #325, a David Michelinie/Todd McFarlane issue that was one of the few instances I can think of where Spider-Man’s patriotism and loyalty to the United States was the central plotline of a story. ASM #325

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When you’re a little kid, you don’t always get to pick your childhood heroes. Sometimes, they’re picked out for you. Marvel can thank me for the FREE advertisement I’m providing for Captain America: The First Avenger (in theaters everywhere TODAY!), but never one to avoid a bandwagon, I thought

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When I first started to get more emotionally invested into comic books, I often defined the authorship of the issue by the artist. For Amazing Spider-Man, there was the Todd McFarlane era followed by the Erik Larsen era and then the Mark Bagley era before giving way to a

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I’m excited to announce what will hopefully be a recurring column that will feature some of my writing outside the usual confines of Chasing Amazing. Here’s the first installment of “Gimmick or Good?” over at the Comics Should Be Good blog, which is part of the Comic Book Resources

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1. Amazing Spider-Man #300 (script by David Michelinie, art by Todd McFarlane) I told you at the very beginning that this top 10 list was a personal thing. I’m sure there are a lot of you out there who have fond memories of Amazing Spider-Man #300. But to declare

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People will say timing is everything. Yet sometimes using the power of 20-20 hindsight, timing doesn’t always seem to add up and make sense. Take the story – or better put, non-story – of my acquisition of Amazing Spider-Man #298. For those unaware of your ASM history, this issue

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