Stuff like that car always kind of amaze me in old comics. I can Google anything, but artists like Romita always got accurate reference for stuff somehow in the 80s. Doc Ock’s weird crisis of faith seems like it’s about to boil over. Meanwhile, as of page 15, I’m writing the script now, based on …
Here we have maybe the weirdest thing about this book: The introduction of Ann MacIntosh. As near as I can tell, even though this isn’t a “real” Spider-Man comic, this is her first appearance in any comic. She would go on to just show up in a handful of future Spidey comics, like she’d been …
Our man is finally out of his depression! It’s about time. Chris and Louise… who are these people? Why does Doc Ock even know them, let alone trust them? No idea. They appear to have been created for this book, and never showed up in anything else, as far as I know. It’s super weird …
I decided I’d try to post short scenes together to make this more pleasant to read. So now I’m inking and coloring everything. This was really being thrown into the deep end. I’ve never tried to ink someone else’s pencils, and as mentioned previously, John Romita, Jr.’s pencils here leave a lot up to the …
I mean, look at that crazy grenade sequence. Romita, Jr. is so good. These pages are still Shooter, Romita & Milgrom, but now the colors are provided by me. Comics in 1983 were still printed using the 4-color process, which resulted in a limited color palette. And before the advent of Photoshop, coloring was achieved …
I had nothing to do with today’s post! What a start. The first 3 pages of the book are totally finished to give you a feel for it. As you can see, the story is by Jim Shooter, the art is courtesy penciler John Romita, Jr. & inker Al Milgrom, letters by Jim Novak, colors …
Probably not the next thing you expected to see on this site! In 2018 & 2019, I was on a Spider-Man comic collecting kick. Trying to fill in my collection of old stuff, trying to find all kinds of obscure things. This book has always been a fascination for me, so the Spidey binge seemed …
Very mean of me, I’m sorry. This wasn’t always the plan, if that makes it any better. In more ways than one. I came up with that last bit while working on the previous post. The end was to be more or less the same, but no glow. But what would the fun be in …
Whoa! That’s it! That’s the end of this story. That’s mean of me, right? Well, it gets worse: That’s the end of Closed Galaxy for awhile. I know! I am an absolute villain! I would certainly suggest re-reading Chapter 6 from the top since it took such an embarrassingly long time to be released. You …
Kinda corny, huh? But it feel like a natural response. I cheated a little, using the light from the festival sign to brighten up these pages even though it didn’t seem that intense before. Unlimited power! This is the real end of the riot scene. There’s an epilogue coming up whenever I get it finished, …
