Ultimate Spider-man Archive

Chasing Amazing’s ongoing look back at some of Spider-Man’s most important underworld stories is expanding its horizons in this latest entry. This time around, we’re leaving the comfortable confines of the 616 universe and traveling the Multiverse all the way over to Ultimate Spider-Man. After just introducing the “Ultimate”

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Similar to last summer when Spider Island and all of its accompanying spin-offs inevitably told the better story with far less fanfare than Marvel’s “mega” event crossover Fear Itself, this year, the Spidey-focused mini-series Spider-Men seems to be far more satisfying than Marvel’s throw everyone into a pot and

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With the six-part Ultimate Fallout: Spider-Man No More series recently wrapped, I’ve been reminded why I’ve never been much of a fan of Marvel’s “Ultimate” universe. I guess it all comes down to a matter of taste. I’ve always been more of a traditionalist when it comes to my

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On more than one occasion, when I’ve used Chasing Amazing as a soap box and stand on to yell about some of the undesirable qualities of the comic book industry – its overuse of “special edition” issues marking new characters, deaths, variant covers, gimmick covers, etc. – I’ve had

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There’s not a lot in my life that’s managed to remain apolitical, but I would like to think my love of comic books and Spider-Man is one of last things that has more or less remained untainted by the cesspool that is Washington, DC, and the media punditocracy that

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Peter Parker/Spider-Man has been a staple in the Marvel superhero universe for nearly 50 years. During this time, numerous heroes and villains have been introduced, killed off, retired, married, etc. But there’s never been a world without Peter Parker as Spider-Man. In the six-part miniseries Ultimate Fallout:Spider-Man No More,

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The art of “spoiling” has certainly accelerated in recent years with the exponential rise in usage of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. so I apologize that I’m having a bit of a difficult time wrapping my head around some of the Internet outrage over Marvel’s publicity grab for last week’s

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So despite the fact that I wasted some Internet space here a few months back disavowing the idea, I broke down last week and picked up a copy (two actually) of Ultimate Spider-Man #160, aka, “The Death of Spider-Man.” While I still maintain the belief that a “special” polybagged

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  This post stands to cap off a cranky week for me here at Chasing Amazing, so let me start by stating what should be the obvious: collecting comic books has always brought me joy. This joy goes beyond the artwork on the cover, the witty banter and the

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