It’s my birthday. This is a rotten gift. We get through all 3 issues with no creative changes. Amazing. Spectacular. The bare minimum in ages past, but not now. We open on…
Tag: Boomerang
Jackpot 2
The Amazing Spider-Man, the Cadillac of Marvel Comics, can’t keep an art team for more than a month, but this can. I am perplexed. We open on Jackpot busting up White Rabbit’s…
Jackpot 1
I almost skipped this. I skimmed it. It seemed pretty dreadful. But it ends up having more than a little Spider-Man in it, so here we are. Marc Guggenheim may not be…
ASM 600
People can be very stupid, and speaking as a person myself, I have been known to do stupid things. Take this issue, for example. ASM 601 had a backup story I felt…
ASM 584
We’re back! I’m back! I haven’t read one of these in four months! I ain’t happy about it, but that’s life. I got so behind on the drawings I do based on…
Civil War: Interlude 1
There’s so much crap going on in Civil War. Like I said, I only bought a fraction of it, and I bought over 50 comics. And there were small bits of some…
USM 061
This issue begins in the morning, when Peter should be catching the bus, but he is not doing well after all he went through last night. Aunt May can see he’s bad…
MKSM 10
Can Spider-Man save the day in these last 3 issues? You think they’d re-kill Aunt May after going to such absurd lengths to bring her back? This one starts with Spider-Man perched…
PPSM 54
The Spectacular Spider-Blob! I wonder how you draw like this. Like when you’re sketching out the figure… do you just close your eyes and make random shapes and then commit? “That’s a…
PPSM 53
Something I think is fascinating about so many artists is they come up with these crazy, exaggerated figures, but everything else in their art is more or less normal. Here we find…