Alright, then. Time to actually gather that pesky 5. This 4-issue stunt is the actual end of the era. You want something like this to really go for it, to really come…
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ASM 440
Suddenly, out of nowhere, John Byrne appears. His involvement in all this seemed random at first, but it becomes so pervasive that he must’ve been part of all the planning. By this…
ASM 439
When I say I was a stupid kid, I mean it. This cover got me. I didn’t read this book, I didn’t like this book, but this stupid gimmick worked on me….
ASM 438
Why the “?!?” Would it be so strange if he did? I know that the beginning of the Vol. 2 era is a disaster, but getting Tom DeFalco out of my life…
ASM 437
It’s always kind of jarring to see an X-Character in the wild. The X-Men is such an insular franchise. The rest of the Marvel U is constantly bumping into each other, but…
ASM 436
Will we really learn who’s under those masks? I don’t remember. I bought this issue, even though most months I was only buying Adjectiveless at this point, just to see who those…
ASM 435
Let’s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who’ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed…
ASM 434
This striking cover by Mark Buckingham is the egregious swipe of Joe Bennett from SMU 18 I caught last time we were in this period. I always liked this cover, it stuck…
ASM Annual 28
Carnage was initially presented as so scary Spidey and Venom could barely beat him. Then they tried to make him even more scary in Maximum Carnage, though they mostly had the opposite…
ASM 433
Here’s a villain we’ve not seen in awhile. That gag with the logo is not quite working. You can always tell a Tom Lyle drawing from the hands. From those weird, meaty…