As far as I can recall, this is the beginning of a really terrible phenomenon that continues to somehow get worse today. If something’s happening in a Marvel movie, the comics try…
Tag: Flash Thompson
TAC V2 04
Despite the way some posts have gone on this blog over the years, I don’t want to be a hater. I try to find the good in things. But how do people…
TAC V2 03
The lighting on this cover is incomprehensible. This issue opens with what I can only describe as a post-Bendis page: I mean, it really is. This page had me thinking Garrett must…
TAC V2 02
That’s it, keep those covers good and generic. We accidentally let last issue’s cover sell the fact that the very popular Venom was in the issue, that was a mistake! What do…
TAC V2 01
Just when I get to stop putting the awkward “V2” on ASM, I have to start doing it here. After the highwater mark of ASM 500… this. Not excited! I have never…
USM 041
So, we’re still at that party, and a guy is begging Geldoff to blow up another car. The kids seem weirdly ok with this when at least 2 of them just lost…
USM 040
These issue titles are getting really weird. Is the damage to the spine of this issue obvious from the picture? These covers got so flimsy when they changed from cardstock. We open…
USM 034
This issue picks up the second the last one left off, with Peter understandably asking Eddie what the goo is. He says it’s what their fathers were working on, what would have…
Tangled Web 21
Darwyn Cooke, J. Bone & Matt Hollingsworth return, and this time, it’s Christmas. Ya know, when I was plotting out this stuff, I remembered a whole lot more of this series being…
Tangled Web 11
Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone take the reins this month. An interesting pairing. Cooke successfully broke into comics in the 90s at DC before quickly deciding it wasn’t a way to make…