Got some greats returning to the blog this month in the form of Lee Weeks and Joe Rubenstein. They’re illustrating a story by Bruce Jones. Interesting career trajectory for that guy. Worked…
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Tangled Web 06
2 Flowers 2 Rhino. Can’t argue with the results. Well, Rhino keeps advancing, and then he goes to see Stella, who’s with the jerk guy, Romeo, who reveals he’s her fiance when…
Tangled Web 05
Peter Milligan is one of those Vertigo guys that Axel Alonso would’ve been able to bring over to Marvel. Not his last work for the company, but maybe the first. Duncan Fegredo…
Tangled Web 04
Greg Rucka, Eduardo Risso and Steve Buccellato on deck this month. Rucka is a crime novelist-turned-comics writer who was coming up around the same time as Bendis, Mack and their kinda guys….
Tangled Web 03
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…
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…