Conveniently out the same month as the end of Doc Ock’s return, an issue of Unlimited that might be more useful than normal. Or it seems like it could just be a…
Month: November 2023
ASM 428
Skroce’s Spider-Man improved dramatically during this story. He got more sleek and less lumpy looking. The other characters did, too, to varying degrees. Simplifying was a good idea. We seem to have…
ASM 427
Shades of ASM 55. Speaking of, for some reason, they got Romita, Sr. to do a version on the fold out: Kinda jarring, really. They’re still in the era of a recap…
ASM 426
Been so long since we saw this era. Crazy. Tom DeFalco, Steve Skroce, Bud La Rosa, Bob Sharen on board. Gee, who could this villain be? Well, page one is is Doc…
To The Death
Here we have an extremely hyped, doomed to disappoint stunt so intense it comes square bound to indicate its importance: The reunion of Stan Lee and John Romita, Sr.! Perhaps the best…
MTU Vol. 2 5
The gimmick is they don’t tell you who the team up is with. That’s shaky ground for only issue 5. Speaking of shaky ground, yet another artist is on deck this issue,…
MTU Vol. 2 4
From the soaring highs of the return of Spider-Man’s 2nd best writer to… The most superfluous book in the line. Wham! I mean, no slight to anyone working on it, either, but…
Hobgoblin Lives 3
Oooo, that image is not high quality. How did that happen? Probably not obvious in the picture, but it’s visibly pixellated Ouch. I guess the early days of digital were a learning…
Hobgoblin Lives 2
A very old school Hobgoblin there on the cover. This month, Jerome Moore and Scott Hanna are on inks and/or finishes (You never know with Frenz, and last issue sure did look…
Hobgoblin Lives 1
So this should’ve run somewhat earlier (See how it has the older trade dress and everything), but I was trying to hold it til we got to the unmasking of Hobgoblin. And…