Oh, Erik. Why must you do this? I think I’ve mentioned before that Erik Larsen has said he added the giant, distended jaw, the tongue and drool because he didn’t like Venom…
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ASM 345
$8.00!!! Surely not. Really? $8.00? That seems crazy high. Well, huh. Looks like a VF copy is more than that on mycomicshop.com. I do recall not getting this one when it came…
ASM 344
This one is unique for me in a very specific way. We’ll get to that later. Here’s the official debut of Cardiac. These characters designed by Erik Larsen stand out so much….
TAC 173
“The Non-Gritty Superhero!” Don’t tell Todd McFarlane… That surgeon general’s warning on the cover is a baffling choice. Here we begin what would’ve been Gerry Conway’s last TAC story, but he’s already…
WEB 072
Yet another “Part 2” I’ve had since childhood without the part 1. What was I doing? Had I to guess, I would perhaps think I bought this to find out who drew…
WEB 071
With this issue, Gerry Conway is officially off Web. He’s semi-done with Spectacular, too, but we’ll get to that. And, look, the return of both Dominic Fortune and artist Dave Hoover to…
TAC 172
This one I’ve had since I was a kid. How and why I kept dropping in and out of the non-ASM titles in the middle of stories is really confusing to me….
TAC 171
They say “The ordeal begins!” like we would know what that means. Time to finally wrap up this long-suffering subplot about Puma’s debt to Spider-Man. I assume Puma will kill Spider-Man. As…
ASM 343
I was always puzzled by the use of “mo’ foes” there. It has only just occurred to me that maybe they wanted me to read that as “mofos” and not in the…
ASM 342
Back again with more powerless Peter, the exciting new series. This one starts with Pete & MJ arriving home after a movie. On the way, they saw a mugging, and Peter wanted…