Monthly Archive:: April 2013

The week of guest blogging continues as the first, of what I hope to be many, of submissions was published this week at Sequart. As someone who really values higher education and prides himself of trying to provide original analysis for the comics I write about here on Chasing

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In the build-up and aftermath of Amazing Spider-Man #700’s “shock” ending, one of the points Marvel higher-ups made (and continued to make as recently as last week) regarding the Peter Parker/Doc Ock mind swap was how similar both characters were when they were younger and how fate seemingly intervened

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Chasing Amazing is back, guest blogging at one of my favorite site on the interwebs, Longbox Graveyard. Last month, I profiled the first half of my 10 favorite Spider-Man “battle scenes.” Today, LBG runs the second half of my list that includes my official “top five.”  Please check it

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In case you missed it yesterday, I was back reliving the 1990s at Comics Should Be Good reviewing Chris Claremont/Jim Lee’s X-Men #1. Is the best-selling comic book of all-time a gimmick, or good? I guess you’ll have to click over to CSBG to find out!

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Some quick house-cleaning/sausage making updates  before I proceed with today’s post. Since we here at Chasing Amazing pride ourselves on creating content that both looks back and looks forward at the Spider-Man universe (two days a week and sometimes a third, if I’m feeling saucy), I thought I’d use

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Continuing the trend I first talked about earlier this week, the Avenging Spider-Man series appears to be the series where Marvel’s creative powers have decided to focus almost exclusively on Spider Ock’s internal evolution – specifically vis a vis other Marvel superheroes. In the case of Avenging Spider-Man #18,

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Since the great status quo switcheroo following the events of Amazing Spider-Man #700, to my surprise, Avenging Spider-Man has been the Spidey title that seemingly focuses the most on the development and characterization of the brand new Superior Spider-Man. While Dan Slott’s work on Superior seems to focus more

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