If you want to adequately blow the mind of an 18-year-old (or depending on the age of those of you out there reading this, want to have your minds collectively blown), send them a copy of Jorge Luis Borges’ Ficciones. While the collection is filled with a number of

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Going back to when I was a little kid, my parents were gratuitous gift givers. Before I go any further, let me preface this post by saying this is not something I had an issue with. But we received gifts – sometimes just small tokens, but gifts all the

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My apologies for the break. I’m starting to feel a little bit more inspired as of late, though please don’t be too devastated if I end up back on another mini-hiatus. What I do want to come clean about before we go any further is that I’d like to

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I know the gap between my las post hasn’t been that noticeable, but it’s been long enough for me to come clean about a few things. I’m going to be taking a little break from posting on Chasing Amazing. How long? Could be a week or two, or maybe

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Though I often complain about the cynical nature of comic books, I thought I would take advantage of all the “Avengers-mania” connected to the new blockbuster movie (in theaters today!) and do a post about a featured character in that movie, Black Widow. Of course, I have an ulterior

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Amazing Spider-Man #683, the second part of the Ends of the Earth storyline, left me with two totally separate impressions. So, while I usually try to put together one broad “thematic” post that sums up the issue each time out, I have to apologize in advance in my thoughts

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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 Spider-Man where we discovered that there was, indeed, something a bit suspicious about that

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As someone who has admittedly not read many Avengers-based comic books over the years (even the recent iteration of the “New” Avengers which features Spider-Man as part of the group), this statement may be coming from a place of ignorance, but I find the involvement of the Venom symbiote

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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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After reading the first installment of the Carnage USA miniseries by Zeb Wells and Clayton Crain, I waxed poetic about why I was never much of a fan of Carnage, the character. However, I wanted to give the mini a chance because so many people seemed to enjoy the

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