These generic covers. This was the mandate of the time, as I’ve mentioned before, just “iconic” shots of the character or maybe a villain instead of anything revealing story content. It had…
Tag: Betty Brant
USM 008
Alright, we’re back, and it’s time for our 2nd arc. From now on, Bendis is the sole writer. Marvel came to him with USM, and Bill Jemas had the major beats hammered…
PPSM 19
Look at that ugly blur. It adds nothing to the image, makes it actively uglier, and makes all the effort Larsen put into the background largely meaningless. I hate blurs in comics….
PPSM 18
Great cover! I love this scribbly hatching phase for Romita. Fan bloggin never stops. But, crushingly, interiors are courtesy of Graham Nolan. No slight to him, but anyone but Romita is a…
PPSM 14
Who’s gonna draw you better Hulk than Romita, Jr.? Who’s gonna draw a more massive, Earth-shaking Hulk? Nobody. It’s still Mackei, Romita, Jr., Hanna & Wright over here, and we begin with…
PPSM 8
Who doesn’t love a good secret revealed? Not sure I’m in for the demon, tho. Kingin’s gonna get involved, eh? Man, how do I not remember so much of this stuff? I…
ASM V2 8
We continue in fantasy world from last issue. Now Flash is trying to disarm a comically huge bomb as Spider-Man must battle a literal army of goons said to be working for…
ASM V2 7
You can, perhaps, intuit that we’re in for some dopey business here. Just the kind of story I like the least, personally. Fans clearly love an alternate universe, a what if, things…
ASM V2 Annual 1999
This is the book that will be about Betty investigating Senator Ward? I guess we’ll see. One I’ve never read before. You see the word “Buscema” on the cover of a Spider-Man…
PPSM 6
Took this long to get back to the Kingpin plot from the previous volume. So much of this book has felt like it’s offtrack. So many issues dealing with the fallout of…