This cover has made me laugh for 30 years. This cover just feels fed up to me. “I’m sick of drawing this crap, WHATEVER, Carnage face!” I can’t know where Sal was…
Month: October 2023
SM 37
Need a giant asterisk by that bottom blurb. I mean, ok, Captain America would fit that bill, but… who are they kidding? It’s JM DeMatteis’ turn on Spider-Man, and this month, Tom…
ASM 380
Venom and his pals! Spider-Man who? This feels like someone was like “Kids like Venom & Carnage, we have to make sure their names are on the cover.” “But… but they are,…
WEB 103
Watching Alex Saviuk adapt to the 90s-ification of comics is kind of a bummer. He was kind of the last of the old school, the last newish guy to be doing the…
TAC 202
I had had various ups and downs in my nascent comic collecting career by this point. We’re in about year 5, I think. But it was this mega-crossover that made me realize,…
SM 36
Because Venom was so nice before. It’s taken them half the crossover to get the weapons they know work on symbiotes, let’s see if that changes anything. This month, it’s Terry Kavanagh’s…
ASM 379
Even wilder! Because Deathlok’s here! I say there are way too many people on this cover that look, to varying degrees, like Spider-Man. Speaking of whom, he’s dragged all the heroes to…
WEB 102
By this point, Morbius is the sort of figurehead of a whole line of comics called the Midnight Sons, about spooky anti-heroes. Ghost Rider & Blaze are lumped in, of course, and…
TAC 201
Looking pretty basic. Looking at these knowing Sal only has a few more years on the book (And in his career as a penciler), I’m keeping an eye out for where things…
SM 35
Tom Lyle makes his Spider-Man debut, but oddly, this doesn’t begin his run with Howard Mackie. During this crossover, each of the other spider-writers take turns writing the 4th book. For this…