Scarlet Spider Archive

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 Ryan Stegman Spider-Man Art gallery, which are all images illustrated by Stegman in

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We have just recently concluded arguably one of the most controversial and polarizing years in the history Spider-Man comics. We got the “death” of Peter Parker, the beginning of the “Superior” era, a host of new series like Superior Foes of Spider-Man and Superior Carnage, and the re-branding of

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I think in many ways I have been more enamored with the idea of Scarlet Spider rather than its actual execution as a comic book series.  Longtime followers of this blog will note that I’ve long had a soft spot for it; in large part because it started off

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From its very first issue, Scarlet Spider has featured the tagline, “All of the Power, None of the Responsibility.” And yet, 23 issues in and only two installments away from the series finale in December, the “power/no responsibility” tagline feels like a gross over-simplification of Kaine’s journey. When he

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A few quick/scattered thoughts about Scarlet Spider #22: In the world of comic books, very few characters who die, stay dead – unless you happen to be Uncle Ben or Gwen Stacy (you’re not counting the clone, are you?). But of all of the deaths that took place in

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It’s that time again … Dan Gvozden from Grind My Reels and myself have released Episode 16 of Superior Spider-Talk. In this podcast, we give our thoughts, reviews and speculation pertaining to Superior Spider-Man #18. We then talk about some upcoming Spidey news and speculation including some interesting tidbits from Marvel’s December

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Despite the issue being heavily promoted as the “return of Ben Reilly,” I was on the fence about dedicating blog space this month to my thoughts on Scarlet Spider #21. I had stopped regularly writing about these issues last year, and outside of a specific story or plot development

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As outlandish as it may sound, the two-part “Sibling Rivalry” storyline that traversed Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2 and Scarlet Spider #20 this month was one of the best Spider-Man stories I’ve read in 2013 (still placing it below Superior Spider-Man’s #7-9 “Troubled Mind” arc, and it remains to be

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I feel like almost every month I find myself defending my adoration for the Scarlet Spider series even though I can never exactly pinpoint what I like so much about the title. Is it the writing? The art? The characterization of Kaine? His supporting cast? His rogues gallery? There

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I was recently thinking that the Scarlet Spider series was in many ways, the most well-rounded and intelligently plotted Spider-Man universe comic books on the market right now. While I still believe that, I must admit I was a little surprised when the series took a shocking left turn

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