Look at those claws. Starting around the mid-90s, making Wolverine have claws so long that they couldn’t possibly retract back into his arm became fashionable, and it stayed that way. You know,…
Category: 2000s
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As is often the case, we rejoin the story the moment the previous issue ended. Suddenly, the baddies’ van is violently flipped on its side. As they get themselves together, the lead…
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In the very beginning, Bendis was supposed to write both Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. That didn’t work out, and Mark Millar and Adam Kubert eventually got the gig. Millar had been…
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That’s one skinny ankle on that back foot! I wonder how boring Bags found these covers. I dunno, maybe it was a relief to just be able to crank out a random…
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I assume Spider-Man really falls to his death for a change in this issue. Let’s find out. It’s been a bit since I did that riff. It’s been a bit since Spider-Man…
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Help. Girl, help. Possibly the most generic cover of the generic cover era. This issue begins with a teacher very angry with Peter Parker for skipping his class. MJ makes up a…
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We’re back with half-a-suit Spider-Mans this month’s installment kicks off, internal monologuing about how he’d rather be with MJ and commenting on how bad things go when he jumps into a fight…
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So, we’re still at that party, and a guy is begging Geldoff to blow up another car. The kids seem weirdly ok with this when at least 2 of them just lost…
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These issue titles are getting really weird. Is the damage to the spine of this issue obvious from the picture? These covers got so flimsy when they changed from cardstock. We open…
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Our boy’s been through an emotional ringer lately. Will things pick up now that he’s getting ready to shoot a hadoken? This is a weird cover. We open on General Nick Fury,…