This is gonna be a real swipe fest, I can feel it. We’re back to Paul Jenkins & Mark Buckingham on PPSM, Bucky here inked by Dan Green, Rodney Ramos and himself,…
Category: 2000s
ASM V2 25
Hey, an actual monthly issue of Spider-Man, who’d have thought? With a dumb, shiny foil cover, even. Welcome to the countdown to the end of Howard Mackie’s tenure on the Spider-Books. Joining…
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No reason Norman couldn’t have reverted to the classic suit for this. I wish he had. We open on the Green Goblin throwing an unconscious Spider-Man off the bridge… you know the…
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Ya know, there’s another big, dramatic “return of the Goblin” event only a year or two from now. When I was putting my reading list together, I thought this was it. But…
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Ladies & gentlemen, please welcome Roger Stern back to the blog! If Norman Osborn has to be alive, this is the person I want writing him, and here he is, reunited with…
DD/SM 4
Now there’s a weird cover. We spend the whole first page on some Komedy Business as a drunk homeless guy has a cell phone conversation about stocks into a brick. Then he…
DD/SM 3
This month, page one reminds us Foggy and Natasha are on a side quest, but all the dialogue is Foggy telling you how DD’s powers work, and it’s weird. Then we’re back…
DD/SM 2
This month, we open on Kingpin in the hospital, surrounded by reporters who want to know what happened at his building. Kingpin appears to be covered in toothpicks. I guess those are…
DD/SM 1
Here we begin a 4-issue Spidey/DD team-up. My memory is not liking it, but I don’t know how much of that is just the art. Let’s see. Paul Jenkins writes, Phil Winslade…
PPSM Annual 2000
I couldn’t pick a joke here, so you choose how this post starts: 1 – Finally, a supervillain named after a paper towel OR 2- We finally know where in the world…