I couldn’t pick a joke here, so you choose how this post starts: 1 – Finally, a supervillain named after a paper towel OR 2- We finally know where in the world…
Tag: Chris Claremont
FF Vol. 3 9
After the Heroes Reborn stunt ended, the various properties involved returned to the Marvel U with shiny new #1s and good-to-great new creative teams, depending. Busiek and Perez on an all-timer Avengers…
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One of 77. I’ma keep it real witchu, chief: I do not expect to agree with that caption! Let’s have a look at what was going on in some other Marvel comics…
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One of 77. Still Claremont & Byrne again, although now Byrne is being butchered by an inker credited as “R. Villamonte.” I note with some interest the library-looking “Mar 21” stamped over…
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One of 77. Bob Wiacek on inks this month. I know it’s classic Marvel style to hit you with an exciting first page and then wind back the clock, but this one…
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Weird application of zip-a-tone on Spidey’s head. Tigra with black hair is kind of jarring. And it’s a Kraven story, so this’ll be fun. Just kidding! This is another one I read…
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A single, individual dollar! This is the first appearance of Murder World. Auspicious. The boys wake up in clear plastic globes, which turn out to be inside a giant pinball table, because…
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Well, well. I haven’t read one of these in like a month. But I’m over a year ahead of when they post, so no one would ever know. But I’m back, and…
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Boy, that cover coloring is unfortunate. Misty looks like a hate crime. Twice! You can see in Colleen’s hair & shading that something’s just gone very wrong with brown here, in general,…
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We return to the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run of MTU. I finally looked up the hard dates. This, their 5th issue together, is cover date November 1977. The famous Claremont/Byrne run of…