Monthly Archive:: September 2013

I often get a kick out of looking back at some of the first comic books I ever purchased as a 7-year-old. I obviously talk a lot about Amazing Spider-Man #296 (my first ever Spidey comic), but I’ve also referred to other series I would periodically check in on

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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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So I’m back to this dance. It was inevitable in a month where I talk about Spider-Man and Avengers/X-Men crossovers that I would spill just a little bit more virtual ink on the topic of Spider-Man being an Avenger. For all you newbies out there, I’ve previously tackled the

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This post was originally published August 17, 2012 I’ve mostly ignored the bulk of Avengers comic books since Spider-Man joined the group a few years ago, mostly based on the fact that I had some personal objections to the idea of Spidey being a regular member of a super-team.

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Over the remaining few weeks of September, as part of my acknowledgement of the 50th anniversaries of the X-Men and Avengers, I’m going to be posting new or re-posting old blog posts that will, in a number of instances, refer to my overall dissatisfaction with Spider-Man being an Avenger.

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Dan Gvozden, co-host of Superior Spider-Talk and a super-friend to Chasing Amazing, has yet another interview to share from last weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con. In Episode 15 of Superior Spider-Talk (a special Superior Spider-Talk and Our Amazing Friends episode), Dan speaks with Paul Jenkins, a writer best known for his run

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An article of mine was published today on a blog that has a lot in common with Chasing Amazing. Among other things, The Longbox Project runs personal stories and recollections from comic book readers/collectors about what a specific issue means to them. I was very fortunate to have my

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My Gimmick or Good feature at Comics Should Be Good returns with one of the biggest selling comics of all-time, X-Force #1, which features the artistic stylings of the controversial Rob Liefeld, with script by long-time “X” writer Fabian Nicieza. This comic came in a polybag with a trading

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This post was originally published October 13, 2011 In an unashamed show of hypocrisy, I’m transitioning from a post about pondering the possible benefits of a Peter Parker/Carlie Cooper long-term team-up to bemoaning the fact that in recent years, Marvel has seemingly shoehorned Spider-Man into every superhero supergroup possible.

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The incomparable Dan Gvozden, co-host of Superior Spider-Talk and a super-friend to Chasing Amazing, has returned from last weekend’s Baltimore Comic Con bearing gifts of awesome interviews with some of Spider-Man’s greatest creators. In Episode 14 of Superior Spider-Talk (a special Superior Spider-Talk and Our Amazing Friends episode), Dan

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