Steve Skroce made his name on X-Man, a comic about a young Cable from an alternate reality hanging out on the prime Marvel Earth, so I guess they felt this needed to…
Tag: Aunt Anna
SSM 12
Feels like The Trapster has appeared on this blog 100% more than he should have. What is this, like 7 appearances now? He’s the bottom of the barrel of Fantastic Four villains,…
ASM 419
Almost illegible cover copy is an unfortunate hallmark of the period. The BLACK Tarantula. Not The Tarantula. That’s another guy. Or is it? That’s right, it’s time for YET ANOTHER mystery man!…
TAC 241
SSSsssssssoooooo… How do you pick up after MJ has friggin’ miscarried? Quite simple. First, JM DeMatteis comes back, because I am allowed no peace. Second, you do 3 pages of Spider-Man swinging…
ASM 418
Halfway done. And it’s into this tumult that new regular (Or perhaps more accurately, “regular”) penciler Steve Skroce drops in. Skroce had been making a big splash in the X-Men comics. To…
SSM 11
Oooo, the secret of Gaunt! I wonder how long before this they figured out who he was, since it was decreed he could not be a reanimated Harry Osborn as originally planned….
TAC 240
Revelations! Internally called Book of Revelations for awhile, but perhaps that was too much. After two and a half years of nonsense spinning out of what was originally intended to be a…
ASM 417
Gasp! Everything I know is wrong? But I didn’t want to know in the first place! Time to awkwardly retcon everything DeMatteis was trying to do with these 2 losers because it…
WEB 127
So. Picking up moments after last post, things get weird instantly on page one… Since when does a SWAT team get mobilized just because Spider-Man is in the area? Who calls him…
ASM Annual 19
Now here’s an extra weird case. I got this one in elementary school. It was at some kind of… bookshow or something? It was like a book convention or something, in a…