Let’s get right to it. Brutal. Like a supercharged version of ASM 3’s first meeting between the two. However… With the upper hand, our man starts some quality rambling while webbing up…
Tag: Brian Michael Bendis
USM 017
Back to the main book, and maybe this month, Spider-Man and Doc Ock will cross paths. I’d say so! Meanwhile, Kraven the Hunter’s manager is showing him a new graphic of him…
USM 016
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…
USM 015
We get started this month with a tense 3-page segment of a lady exercising on the phone when Dr. Octopus breaks into her house and slowly starts coming toward her room before…
USM 014
We’re back to the Ultimate Universe. Original recipe Marvel is in mid-2002 where we left it, and this brings us back to late 2001 in the Ultimate corner of publishing. And we’ve…
UTMU 10
This month… well, it’s a weird one, and our artist is John Totleben. He first got famous inking Stephen Bissette on the run of Swamp Thing that was also Alan Moore’s first…
UTMU 08
This month we get to the first of many comics from this period we’ll see with a 9/11 memorial box on the cover. For a company and really an industry almost exclusively…
UTMU 09
Of all the artists featured in this book so far, Jim Mahfood is by far the most radical choice. A fixture of the indie world at the time, doing comics a lot…
UMTU 07
Cool cover. Let’s learn about Ultimate Daredevil. We’re really reducing Ultimate DD to a pre-1990s-style blurb for a backstory? This issue begins with a cop starting a fight in a bar because…
UMTU 06
Something noteworthy is going on with this cover. Or rather, not going on. There’s no Comics Code Authority approval stamp. This is because the radical new management decided they didn’t need it…