More cult action! Looks like this could get weird. As we open, MJ is coming home with an old friend from high school who’s also become a model (That seems statistically unlikely,…
Tag: Ben Urich
WEB 040
Well, I sure hope so! It’s the return of those “Part 1, Part 2,” etc banner things from the 4 months of weird crossovers. This is the first book on the blog…
TAC 142
This issue opens with Spider-Man swinging around Atlanta. What? Yes. Rather betraying the era Conway started out in, this is one of those where we start in the middle and then flashback…
TAC 141
Well, here we go. It’s The Punisher’s moment. He was popular from his inception, but as comics trend ever darker, meaner and more cynical in the late 80s & into the 90s,…
TAC 140
Seems like a meeting you don’t want to attend. It’s the day after last issue’s grim cliffhanger, and Robbie is in the hospital surrounded by his family, maybe paralyzed, maybe worse. Peter…
ASM 233
This is an awkward place to start, but as we will see, The Tarantula only attacks Spider-Man from the left on a on yellow background. Those are the rules. Welcome back to…
SM 66
I just noticed Romita doing it, and then went back and looked, and it seems all the artists have abandoned the unnecessarily complicated web pattern on this Spider-suit in exchange for the…
ASM 409
Every artist as their own approach to character design. A lot of guys have tells that make it easy to guess a character is theirs. The new characters on this cover are…
TAC 137
So, here’s a fun thing. This issue debuts the new regular creative team on TAC… and it’s the first creative team on TAC. Gerry Conway wrote and Sal Buscema drew the first…
TAC 133
Usually that “after” credit on a comics cover means it’s a direct homage to another image. I’m not a super expert, but I don’t think Sienkiewicz means this is a direct lift…