Could anyone truly be ready for Spider-Hulk? While I didn’t buy the previous issue as a kid, who could pass by this totally bonkers cover without picking it up? Not me. Our…
Tag: Bob Sharen
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After careful consideration of his situation and options, Hulk has decided smashing is in order. Having 1 guy write 2 out of 3 Spider-Man titles always seemed like a weird choice. Inevitably,…
SM 03
The cover lets you know we’re in for more Kraven stuff, but as a kid, I’m not sure I would’ve seen Kraven yet. This issue would’ve been very weird for me, for…
SM 02
What is an Arachknight? I feel like this deserves an explanation, but none is forthcoming. We open with a couple of gross Wall Street guys being gross (One of whom looks remarkably…
SM 01
Welcome back to 1990! We’re here with Todd McFarlane’s Adjectiveless Spider-Man, the first comic since the 1940s to sell over a million copies. The message that sent was clear: Flashy art was…
ASM 420
Steve Skroce made his name on X-Man, a comic about a young Cable from an alternate reality hanging out on the prime Marvel Earth, so I guess they felt this needed to…
ASM 419
Almost illegible cover copy is an unfortunate hallmark of the period. The BLACK Tarantula. Not The Tarantula. That’s another guy. Or is it? That’s right, it’s time for YET ANOTHER mystery man!…
ASM 418
Halfway done. And it’s into this tumult that new regular (Or perhaps more accurately, “regular”) penciler Steve Skroce drops in. Skroce had been making a big splash in the X-Men comics. To…
ASM 417
Gasp! Everything I know is wrong? But I didn’t want to know in the first place! Time to awkwardly retcon everything DeMatteis was trying to do with these 2 losers because it…
ASM Annual ’96
The appearance of this comic at this time is SO jarring. Extremely un-90s Ron Frenz art, a cover full of dead people, 2 versions of the real Spider-Man. Very left field. Also…