This issue begins with Ben looking at a copy of Legacy of Evil, being apprehensive about where this is taking him. Then… Jessica dreamed of an adorable, sparkling child chasing a butterfly…
Tag: Brian Michael Bendis
The Pulse 3
Mike Mayhew has the guy in this cover looking like some kinda weird composite of Nixon and Sinatra. I just realized they forgot the credits last issue because I noticed this issue…
The Pulse 2
This month’s cover is courtesy of Gabriel Del’Otto, a French painter Marvel discovered online. As I recall, I think it might’ve been Bendis himself championed Del’Otto to Marvel. This cover was, in…
The Pulse 1
So, Jessica Jones was a big hit in her MAX series, Alias, by Bendis, Michael Gaydos and Matt Hollingsworth, which we saw just a tiny bit of a few blocks back. We…
DD V2 56-60
Hey, Daredevil again! We’re back to the historic Bendis/Maleev/Hollingsworth Daredevil. The dream team actually took 5 issues off right before this, letting Bendis’ good friend David Mack do a 5-issue Echo story…
UXM 38 & 39
Wolverine is all face on this cover. This was one of Finch’s early weaknesses, he drew people’s heads too small, like there wasn’t enough room in their skull for a brain. I…
UXM 36 & 37
Look at those claws. Starting around the mid-90s, making Wolverine have claws so long that they couldn’t possibly retract back into his arm became fashionable, and it stayed that way. You know,…
UXM 35
As is often the case, we rejoin the story the moment the previous issue ended. Suddenly, the baddies’ van is violently flipped on its side. As they get themselves together, the lead…
UXM 34
In the very beginning, Bendis was supposed to write both Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. That didn’t work out, and Mark Millar and Adam Kubert eventually got the gig. Millar had been…
USM 045
That’s one skinny ankle on that back foot! I wonder how boring Bags found these covers. I dunno, maybe it was a relief to just be able to crank out a random…