The craziest part of this story is, as the sticker indicates, I didn’t get this concluding chapter as a kid. I have, in fact, never read it. Most of the time I…
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TAC 224
Certainly an intentional echo of ASM 39 there. I like that whoever colored this cover got to the text at the bottom and was like “Yeah, pants blue and sweater blue, done.”…
SM 58
The Adjectiveless Spider-Man is still Howard Mackie, Tom Lyle, Scott Hanna & Kevin Tinsley in 1995. Still can’t get over Spider-Man being on fancier paper than ASM. This happened because it launched…
ASM 401
Seems like a bad career choice. In this issue: problems. It’s JM DeMatteis, Mark Bagley, Larry Mahlstedt with normal credits, and then the weird growing pains of the 90s seep in, as…
WEB 124
The logo is no match for Kaine! Steven Butler & Tom Lyle appear to be the only ones maintaining McFarlane’s crazy perm for MJ. Everyone else has pretty much given her her…
TAC 223
The folks who make Web of Spider-Man must’ve felt ripped off to be the only title that didn’t get a fancy cover. This one makes no sense at all. In this period,…
SM 57
Welcome back to grim’n’gritty sad times 1995, where things won’t get much grimmer or grittier or sadder than this. Aunt May dead! Peter arrested for murder AT THE WAKE! And look at…
ASM 416
While The FF and most of the core Avengers are off being rebooted in Heroes Reborn, the rest of Marvel U thinks they died heroically stopping Onslaught. So that’s what this one’s…
SSM 10
More NAZI BEES. The way this book weirdly insists on downplaying the Nazi part makes me want to highlight it. Someone thought NAZI BEES were a good idea. Who’s that someone? Why,…
SSM 09
Oh boy, it’s Swarm! This would’ve been my first exposure to this extremely bizarre character. I’ve since read earlier appearances. This should be a wacky one. A friggin Dave Matthews reference?! Todd…