Well, to get right into it, Spider-Man’s narrations makes a weirdly blithe joke about Captain America being dead (????), then he dashes around trying to do… something, the art is pretty unclear,…
Month: February 2026
ASM 550
Larocca thinks the spider on our guy’s chest should be huge one page, tiny the next. Stephane Pero swaps in on colors this time. the “who is Jackpot working with” question is…
ASM 549
Next up through this era’s revolving door, we have writer Marc Guggenheim, artist Salvador Larocca, and colorist Jason Keith. We saw Larocca on FF, Vol. 3 #9, way back when, but he’s…
ASM 548
The great Dave Stewart randomly takes over colors this week. Morry Hollowell has a very particular, recognizable coloring style, and I think he’d colored everything McNiven & Vines had done for Marvel…
ASM 547
Let’s just hop right in there: Certainly not a splash you had seen before. Oh, Robbie, I missed you. Wow, a Spider-Man comic with Spider-Man in it, how novel. Seems like something…
ASM 546
Well… Here we are. Swing Shift was technically the first post-OMD adventure, but being released months prior, it doesn’t feel like it. This, tho, is the beginning of the new deal. Having…
Swing Shift
Ok, we’re finally here. After all that pointless Back In Black stuff and a welcome return to USM, we can see what the Brand New Day era of Spider-Man is like. Sort…
USM 110
This month opens on a cheery scene of some Kingpin goons dragging Moon Knight to a river late at night, shooting him in the head and chucking him in while arguing about…
USM 109
Weird how the creative team stabilized after the clone story. No problem keeping everyone in place now. Well, this month, Matt Murdock has just won a case in court when his superhearing…
USM 108
Feel like Bendis is just goofing now. Ultimate Ronin! Page one, Kingpin is looking in on his bedridden wife. Probably Vanessa, but it could be any name in this world. Maybe he…