And so, we reach a big milestone in my personal comics collecting habits: the moment when I stopped individually bagging comics. I decided it was both easier and more convenient to put…
Tag: Betty Brant
Hobgoblin Lives 3
Oooo, that image is not high quality. How did that happen? Probably not obvious in the picture, but it’s visibly pixellated Ouch. I guess the early days of digital were a learning…
Hobgoblin Lives 2
A very old school Hobgoblin there on the cover. This month, Jerome Moore and Scott Hanna are on inks and/or finishes (You never know with Frenz, and last issue sure did look…
Hobgoblin Lives 1
So this should’ve run somewhat earlier (See how it has the older trade dress and everything), but I was trying to hold it til we got to the unmasking of Hobgoblin. And…
WEB 106
And here he is. Stephen Baskerville appears to add a patina of 90s ugliness to Alex’s art. Would really like to know the story on how this occurred. Forced by editorial? Requested…
WEB 105
In the back of my mind, this story has me wondering what the rules of my Spider-Man drawings are. Do have to draw the 40 billion people in this story? They’re not…
WEB 104
Alex seems off his game on this cover. Spider-Man’s legs are weird and out of proportion. I wonder if he’s supposed to be foreshortening. I know nothing about this. I read Infinity…
UTS 23
Now this seems like it could be a good idea. Giving the new crime boss about to appear in ASM a little more lead time so he doesn’t just crop up out…
ASM 020
Good cover! That first iteration of Scorpion’s tail just seems so underwhelming in light of later ones. I mean, I came in with Todd McFarlane putting a blade on it. He’s the…
UTS Annual ’96
If yer gonna do a retro comic like this, Mike Allred is pretty natural choice of artist. His whole thing is a kind of kitchy, 60s-influenced style that he’s used to great…