venom Archive

Who doesn’t love a redemption story? And the comic book industry is filled with them. Check out my latest list at ComicBook.com which looks at 10 of the very best “babyface turns” in comic book history. Any of your favorite villains turned heroes missing from the list?

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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 Venom  which are all images of Venom from Spider-Man comics and associated titles and

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In what is clearly a play on Marvel’s year-long acknowledgement of its 75th anniversary in 2014, the company is publishing a number of hypothetical look-aheads under the guise of “100th Anniversary” issues. Beyond the play on anniversary lingo, these issues also seemed to be designed towards getting some new

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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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In its infancy, Chasing Amazing was a blog that was as much about my collection of Amazing Spider-Man comics as it was about Spider-Man himself. But as is often the case in life, my site needed to adapt and evolve to survive, and I started introducing new features and

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Everything is just falling into place now, isn’t it? Last week, an image of the cover to a new (and rebooted) version of Amazing Spider-Man leaks on the internet. A few days later, Marvel comes clean, as Dan Slott kicks off his, “ah, you caught me … yep, Peter

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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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When Amazing Spider-Man #374 was released in February 1993, it had been more than four years since Venom was first introduced to the world by David Michelinie and Todd McFarlane. During that timeframe, Venom demonstrated his full range sociopathic tendencies, attempting to murder Spider-Man on countless occasions (including kidnapping

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I’m at the point where I’m running out of interesting things to say about Matt Kindt and Marco Rudy’s Marvel Knights Spider-Man mini-series. Three issues in and the title remains the most visually unique and interesting thing we’ve seen from a Spider-Man comic … maybe EVER, while Kindt’s script

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In an era where seemingly every single comic book series one way or another bleed into each other in an effort to create can’t miss “events,” I’ve found it amazing that outside of a few brief exceptions, Marvel has managed to keep Spider-Man and Flash Thompson’s Agent Venom in

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