Why would young me buy a random Spectacular Annual in the middle of a mutlipart storyline with the meager funds available to me? Why, because of the Todd McFarlane Prowler story, of…
ASM Annual 24
Gil Kane! Still looking slick on the page almost 20 years since his last Spider-Job! This is weird because it begins a 3-part story across this year’s Spidey annuals, and as a…
MCP 48-50
This is sort of stretching my arbitrary rule that I only talk about stuff I don’t own in a collection. This book is a reprint of the main feature in Marvel Comics…
ASM 333
I don’t remember the circumstances of my acquiring it, but my childhood copy of this one has no cover. I got a new one during The Great Ebay Hysteria of 2018, so…
ASM 332
There’s those squares again. That is funny cover copy. Not as funny as this… But funny. And probably not as intentional. Note the drool. Erik Larsen is the one who gave Venom…
TAC 164
Still “The Non-Mutant Superhero.” I wonder if the editors of, like, almost all Marvel comics took issue with this. I mean, at this time, you had X-Men, New Mutants, Excalibur, X-Factor and…
WEB 065
This is too many villains. 7 bad guys and 6 of them are jobbers? Too crowded! At least The Sinister Six was 6 characters you might actually want to see. The coloring…
WEB 064
Well, that seems bad. Graviton alone was able to humble our hero before. And look, character boxes. This one begins following a van carrying Titania, Trapster & The Brothers Grimm to The…
ASM 331
Now here’s a weird one. This is one of a few issues where a very dark ad was actually transferring ink to the facing story page and I put a kleenex in…
ASM 330
I believe this issue marks the beginning of one of the great comics mysteries of its time: Why does Erik Larsen draw little triangles on The Punisher’s lips? If there’s an answer,…