New Issues Archive

There’s a scene early on in Amazing Spider-Man #14 that speaks volumes as to why I’ve had so many problems with “Spider-Verse,” not only in terms of its construction and execution, but also its theme and its message. Peter Parker’s “plan,” which was apparently to just show up at

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I have grown increasingly cranky regarding the state of “Spider-Verse” over the past month or so, finding the narrative to be lacking any forward thrust and the tie-ins to be either superfluous or overindulgent. So I was obviously quite curious about what was awaiting me this week with Amazing

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Dating back to the dawn of the “Marvel Age of Comics” in the 1960s, the self-proclaimed “House of Ideas,” has always prided itself of the scope and the epic-nature of its stories. The Fantastic Four weren’t just fighting random alien invaders on a month-to-month basis, but were instead intrigued

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Yes, it’s time for Chasing Amazing to talk about another Amazing Spider-Man Annual. I’ll spare you all the usual rants I make about annual issues and instead dive into my thoughts on Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (vol. 3 for those keeping score at home). Like a traditional Spider-Man annual

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Since taking over as the full time writer of Spider-Man in 2010, Dan Slott has always had a penchant for thinking big and for not being afraid to break a few dozen eggs while making his comic book omelet. But while this devil may care attitude (especially as it

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While it still leaps and bounds better than some of the issues we were getting prior to the onset of “Spider-Verse,” I can’t help but think of Amazing Spider-Man #10 as a bit of a step backwards in the quality department – especially when compared to the wonderful opening

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I don’t ask for much in my Spider-Man comics. Ultimately, all I want is a reason to keep coming back, month after month – to get something out of a story that makes me look forward to what comes next. I think one of the main reasons I’ve been

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When it comes to the newly rebooted Amazing Spider-Man series, I sometimes feel like someone in the midst of the “five stages of grief” – trying to work my way through each stage until I finally (inevitably) hit upon “acceptance” and understand that eight issues in, this book continues

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And now back to our regularly scheduled programming … With the first arc of the new Amazing Spider-Man title ending with such a resounding thud last month, it was going to take a pretty extraordinary effort from Dan Slott and Gisueppe Camuncoli in this week’s Amazing Spider-Man #7 to

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I’ve been fairly harsh on the last three issues of the Amazing Spider-Man “Learning to Crawl” miniseries and was almost dreading the idea of reading the finale this week and trying to come up with something to say that wasn’t overly whiny or obnoxious. But in turns out my

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