Well, bit of a swerve to start this issue, as Peter’s landlord wanders in on the festivities… I know I keep talking about how continuity is over and/or how the Jemas/Quwsada regime…
Month: January 2025
Tangled Web 02
Feel like you can safely say this is not a typical Spider-Man cover. Is… is that the guy from Trigun? The extent of my knowledge of Trigun is basically that the main…
Tangled Web 01
I wasn’t sure how to handle this, so this entire series is getting a block. Spider-Man’s Tangled Web was yet another attempt at a Spider-Man anthology title, like Webspinners only a few…
Jay Leno & Spider-Man: One Night Only
We wrap this block with the weirdest possible detour. Basically, as I’ve mentioned, anything goes in this era of Marvel Comics. If someone had an idea Jemas and/or Quesada thought was interesting,…
Alias 22 & 23
We wrap this block with 2 more weird tangents. This post, we’re looking at Alias, the book wherein Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth gave the world Jessica Jones. Here, approaching the…
PPSM 57
This issue saw print the same month as ASM 53, and it, too, has 4 pages slightly taller than the rest of the book. A systemic problem! This cover is about as…
PPSM 56
Sam Keith! His stuff is just plain weird, very loose and very cartoony, and you either like it or don’t, but what’s rather fascinating to me is how big he got in…
ASM V2 54
This month, we randomly have a cover by Terry & Rachel Dodson. Not their last appearance on this blog. The Spider-Office seems to have been booking cover artists for 3 each, but…
ASM V2 53
Romita, Jr’s art has changed so much since the first time he was on ASM, and yet things like that left leg & foot were there from the start and continue to…
ASM V2 52
No less an authority than Marvel Executive Editor Tom Brevoort has said that, during the Jemas era, the general cover mandate was single characters, even for team books, preferably female, preferably scantily…