Monthly Archive:: June 2011

No, you didn’t just inadvertently wander onto the home page for playbill.com. But since the Spider-Man musical, “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” is making its long-awaited (and stalled) debut tonight on Broadway, and Chasing Amazing at the core is a site about one man’s meditation on Spider-Man comic books,

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Marvel’s latest mega event, “Fear Itself” primarily focuses on Captain America and Thor as they, and other heroes, combat the “God of Fear” who is using the heroes’ inner-most fears, as well as mounting fear and paranoia, against them. But when I saw that there would be a Spider-Man

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It’s been a bit of a chaotic week here in my life, where other obligations are essentially reducing my brain to mush. So I apologize for the lack of a comic remembrance this week. However, there’s been some buzz around the internet regarding a four-page Spider-Man fan comic by

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A few years ago, due to process of elimination, I attended a Tori Amos concert with my wife. Even though I would not describe myself as a “fan” of Amos, I didn’t have anything against her, and even knew a few of her songs, primarily because my wife was

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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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A superhero comic is pointless without supervillains. They are the jelly to the hero’s peanut butter sandwich, the decanter that allows a fine red wine to breathe and evolve (though I wouldn’t recommend a fine red wine with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich). Spider-Man has always had his

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As a collector with a very narrow focus on one specific title, I’m constantly seeking the best deal available. But oftentimes, I get subjected to the whims of the marketplace. If an issue of Amazing Spider-Man is in high demand and thereby has a seemingly inflated price, I sometimes

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As someone who first got hot and heavy into the collector’s end of comic books towards the peak of what is now dubbed the “speculator boom” of the 1990s, I’ve been thoroughly entertained by a regular feature at Bleeding Cool: “My Monthly Curse,” by Phil Hall, a former comic

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Pardon the interruption from the usual Chasing Amazing content, but DC Comics – also know by some Marvel fans as “those other guys” – made a potentially industry shaking announcement yesterday that’s sure to trickle down the line in due time. As of September, DC is renumbering every single

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