A paper comic book! It happened! I don’t remember buying this, but I assume I got it when I decided to get every Roger Stern Spider-Man comic in the period where I…
The Short Halloween
Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale did a lot of things together as a team in comics. They did they “Color” series at Marvel, such as Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, and Hulk: Grey,…
ASM 594
These Joe Quesada covers, with the bony, emaciated, mishapen Spider-Men swooping through weirdly specific perspective experiments haven’t been my favorite. This time, pencils are by “Barry Kitson & Mike McKone,” in that…
ASM 593
Karl Kesel steps in to help with inks this month, and our tale begins with Peter Parker taking his shower and recapping what he saw at the end of last issue. Aunt…
ASM 592
Mark Waid is back this issue. Thank goodness. He is aided & abetted by Mike McKone, Andy Lanning and Jeromy Cox. We open on 3 pages of Peter Parker recapping the last…
ASM 591
This month, Barry Kitson is mostly doing breakdowns for Jesse Delpergang, and Dale Eaglesham draws only parts of 2 pages and all of 2 more pages. Also there’s 3 colorists. Things got…
ASM 590
For the long time he worked on ASM, Dan Slott told anyone who’d listen how Spider-Man was his favorite character and there was nothing he’d rather do. When he finally, fffffinally let…
ASM 589
Please welcome to the blog Mr. Fred Van Lente. As mentioned previously, Van Lente made his name on an indie book called Action Philosophers with artist Ryan Dunlavey, which profiled a different…
ASM: Extra! 3
Behold ye, the final issue of ASM Extra. 3 issues across 8 months. Who knows? Noted tracer Tommy Lee Edwards brings us a version of a promo image from one of the…
ASM 588
For all the marbles! Our man is sizing up the onrushing crowd of inmates as we rejoin the action from last issue… We will also remember the time Vin clocked him one…