And now for something… well, not completely different, but… not often you get a book about villains, but in what would become a pretty common attempt to get more Spider-Man product on…
Month: May 2022
ASM 350
Look at all we are promised this time. I may have been skipping ASMs sometimes, but even a very new comics nerd is quickly programmed to care about anniversary issues, so here…
ASM 349
$2. Another of the rare ASMs I skipped once I was buying comics. But I was 12, I didn’t exactly have disposable income, and my lord & savior Todd McFarlane was making…
Thor 448
Really not gonna make Code: Blue happen, but gonna keep trying! Spider-Man kicks Thor in the face to get this Two Heroes Fight Over a Misunderstanding started. Titania runs as everyone else…
Thor 447
Yep, more Thor. Yep, DeFalco & Frenz, back again. Even now 5 years removed from their run on ASM, they just keep popping up. Last time their Thor run cropped up on…
SM 12
Who could it be? Todd has only really set up one suspect. Jim Lee’s longtime collaborator Scott Williams is back to ink 2 pages this month, and one of them is obviously…
SM 11
This cover’s description of what happens inside isn’t really that exciting. Unless Spider-Man is gonna fight the press. This month, it’s just Rick Magyar pitching in on inks. Rick has a long…
SM 10
We’re back with Wolverine running to go save the hunters who shot Wendigo, thinking, among other things, “A few dead kids and all sense of reasoning disappears.” Yeah, man, it’s only a…
SM 09
This cover is almost incomprehensible. And even though I’ve stared at it enough to see it properly, I still see Wendigo with a big long cartoon nose and want to read the…
SM 08
Well, we’re back to 1991. Back to the birth of the speculator boom. Back to the era where flashy, artist-driven new #1s were driving sales of millions of copies for the first…