So! Spider-Man has literally been shot down and is lying on the pavement in a pool of his own blood. Not your typical Spidey cliffhanger. The cops move in and cuff him,…
Tag: Brian Michael Bendis
USM 029
We’re back! Bendis! Bagley! Thibert. Transparency Digital! Art Thibert has apparently gone on to become one of these awful conservative idiots who rails against superhero comics starring heroes who aren’t white guys…
Alias 22 & 23
We wrap this block with 2 more weird tangents. This post, we’re looking at Alias, the book wherein Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth gave the world Jessica Jones. Here, approaching the…
DD V2 34-35
Now we get to check in, briefly, on one of the best Daredevil runs of all time. Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev and Matt Hollingsworth put on a masterclass for 5 and…
USM 028
Back to USM for a vaguely patriotic cover. This is a bit of a wacky one. Our tale begins with Peter Parker in the library, being a nerd, when MJ runs in…
USM Super Special
Behold it. Published the same month as UMTU 16, the real grand finale of the series arrives in an oversized “jam book.” I think this is the first place he does it,…
UMTU 16
Yep, more Bruce Lee. Shameless. After the so-called fairy tale recaps, sort of, we get right back into it. Some collar on that shirt. This is a very Bendis speech. It’s one…
UMTU 15
If you got up this morning and you thought, “I would like to see Bruce Lee bodies with random heads on them,” the covers of UMTU 15 & 16 by David Mack…
UMTU 14
This month, UMTU welcomes Terry Moore, of the long-running Strangers In Paradise, among other things (Although I think he’d done little else at this point, he really stretched out into other areas…
UMTU 13
More magical mayhem awaits. We begin this month on a very trippy visual of Strange drifting through his own memory of a confrontation with his mother, wherein he’d learned about his dad’s…