At least I paid a fair price for it! If I understand the cover dates correctly, this issue actually published in June of 1997. The month after I finished high school. We’ve…
Month: August 2022
TAC 247
Last issue’s letter column said this Jack O’Lantern was created in Mark Gruenwald’s seminal Captain America run. That’s untrue, tho editorial may not have known it at the time. That was a…
TAC 246
Sigh. Big sigh. Ross’s Spider-Man is really off-model from his usual McFarlane-by-way-of-Campbell impression here. Looks like he jumped to the future and started aping ballpoint pen-era Steve McNiven. That’s a very inside…
ASM 424
Yes, what a… mysterious character. DOES Spider-Man know Elektra? I’m not so sure. She’s so mysterious she’s named on page 1: Elektra already feels out of character. Joe Bennett still on the…
SMU 16
With its recent 3-parter, SSM is now way ahead of the other titles for me, so time to play catchup, starting here. Tony Daniel was a guy who did a minor Image…
SSM 18
So, wait, is the DK thing not over? What’s going on? Whatever, look, cover credits! DC had been doing this for years before Marvel finally got on board. Cover credits are cool…
SSM 17
Pulling issues out of the box for this block, I assumed issues 16 & 17 of SSM were standalone issues looking at the covers. You literally can’t judge a book by its…
SSM 16
Follow-up question: Why is there a new Prowler? Perhaps we’ll find out in this tale by Todd DeZago, Mike Weiringo, Richard Case and Gregory Wright. Did “the accident” happen off-panel? Is it…
Dead Man’s Hand
So, just to recap: Gerry Conway made a story about clones. And then Bill Mantlo made a story about a failed clone named Carrion. And then Conway came back and was like…
SM 80
Now there’s a weird cover composition. Not sure I’m with ya on this one, JR. We begin with various recapping and some mysterious forces assaulting Fortunato’s compound and Peter Parker trying to…