Spider Island Archive

In the span of eight issues and even with the weight of having to tie-in to a major storyline in another publication, Rick Remender has succeeded in making Venom the most “human” he’s been, probably since he was first introduced by David Michelinie in 1987. While a constant theme

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You’ll often hear me discuss specific themes and storytelling devices utilized by writers and creative teams that have kept me hooked on Amazing Spider-Man for more than 20 years. I’ll talk about character developments, or rich back-stories, but really the moments in comic books, and Spider-Man comic books specifically,

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Let me start this post off with a quick programming note. As I referred to on Twitter the other day (are you following Chasing Amazing on Twitter? Yes? Great. No? What’s wrong with you), I’ve hit a point of overload with a lot of these Spider Island tie-ins, so

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