Lookit these jokers. Even as a callow youth I was like “This is lame.” Faux-Cap is obviously the worst. He looks like a backup dancer for Paula Abdul. And then the other…
Tag: Aunt May
ASM 366
This should be interesting. I haven’t read this since it came out, and had never seen ASM Annual 5 at the time. I just read a paragraph about Peter’s parents in Spider-Man…
ASM 365
We’ve made it to the last of the anniversary books. Technically, 2nd-to-last, though for its content, it should not have been, and also, it’s ASM, you’d expect it to be first or…
ASM 364
Startling developments! We begin with The Shocker, who, it turns out, Bags does a fine rendition of, attacked by some kinda flying thingy. Last time being The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #4,…
TAC 189
Here it is, the first of the oversized 30th Anniversary issues with fancy hologram covers. And so we truly enter the age of the gimmick cover. This would only get weirder and…
TAC 188
Big finish. A very Kirby-esque cityscape down there. Vulture is lunging at Spider-Man recapping the deal on page one. I think it’s cool that Sal has this weird page layout, and how…
TAC 187
If this is gonna swerve, the cover sure isn’t tellin’. Aunt May has a huge yard! Look at all that empty green space. Does Aunt May own a car? I don’t think…
TAC 186
I mean, finally. The old codger hanging around only gets more and more ridiculous. We have already seen the 90s attempt to make him young fail even though we haven’t seen it…
ASM 361
I love that sticker. $3! Yes, young me chose to pass on Carnage at first, I guess. I don’t have any strong memory of it. Might’ve just missed it, might not have…
Spider-Man: Fear Itself
Welcome back to the very, very end of 1991, as we enter a block that will introduce a major new Spider-Man character AND one of the most insane twists anyone ever pulled….