The way Jim Lee and his followers insist muscular men have these deformed, huge wrists is very funny to me. Like it’s Lee making a peculiar drawing choice, and then a literal…
Author: spiderdewey
New Avengers 04
“Why don’t women read comics? We just don’t know!” This month begins with Jessica Drew arriving at Stark Tower as Tony is talking to Maria Hill, acting head of SHIELD after what…
New Avengers 03
There he is, Marvel’s Superman. Or as close as he’s ever gonna get to it, at least. Well, we open on the SHIELD helicarrier early the next morning. Cap and Iron Man…
New Avengers 02
That’s a strong composition on that cover. Well. We’re right at the end of last issue. Spidey and Cap see Electro take his still-unseen passenger out of the prison on a wave…
New Avengers 01
The breakup of the Avengers was serious. The book stayed off the shelf for months to really show the impact of the team being dissolved. Just kidding, this issue came out the…
TAC V2 20
Is it just me or does the Spectacular Spider-Spider have at least 10 legs in this cover drawing? Paco Medina has drawn the short straw and must bring this absolutely insane story…
TAC V2 19
So, like, with the “prologue” part, this is a 6-issue story. Pretty typical of its day, and most days to follow. So why does it have 3 different artists? That doesn’t feel…
TAC V2 18
Strap in for more fun with the gang! I don’t think fun is actually on the docket. This month, we get started on an unbelievable (quite literally) stupid note as Peter, who…
TAC V2 17
So, yeah, back to this. As we’ve seen, Disassembled was a totally self-contained story. But they had the idea to create a bunch of tie-ins where… bad things happened to people. Ostensibly…
Avengers 503 & Finale
Big finish! Yes, really, this story is only 4 issues. Just maximum carnage in minimal space. It opens with a flashback drawn by Olivier Coipel. Real “pre-2012 depictions of women in comics”…