I’ll keep it a buck, I’m not a big fan of J. Scott Campbell. His art’s weird. He made his bones drawing sexy girls, but “sexy” according to whomst? We’ll eventually see…
Month: November 2024
ASM V2 30
Ladies & Gentlemen, please welcome back the classic ASM logo! Mostly! Sort of! Obviously remade in Illustrator, but close enough! A welcome sight, to be sure. And now it can be told….
PPSM 32
Woof. these covers. Colors this month are by Transparency Digital. Well, Fusion is dragging Spider-Man by the foot, like on the cover, and Spidey’s narration tells us he’s really all-in on believing…
PPSM 31
What a terrible drawing. The perspective, the stumpy fingers, that insane foot. Well, let’s see what this month’s trip to the Buckingham Recycling Center gets us. We find Peter Parker soaking in…
PPSM 30
Kicking this block off with PPSM because I think it just flows a little better that way. We’re now firmly in the era where comics are telling 5 and 6 part stories,…
ASM V2 Annual 2001
So this one’s weird right from the cover because that image is from the Spider-Man video game. It was in ads in all Marvel Comics for several months before this issue came…
PPSM 29
A 4-part story where a single chapter is written by a different writer is a strange decision. Charlie Adlard, at this point best known for the Walking Dead, tags in for line…
ASM V2 29
Hey, look, this month, Lee Weeks is on board. That’s perhaps because Bennett & Florea are on the big finale of this story, but even so, Lee Weeks doesn’t seem like a…
ASM V2 28
Here we go, the big 4-part story that sees Howard Mackie out the door. And we also have Romita. Jr. getting the memo to make the covers more generic and iconic. He…
Lifeline 3
Pitched battle begins on the splash page this month. Spider-Man, Lizard and Boomerang take turns recapping as Lizard tears around the room. Liz says the effects of the tablet have given him…