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: Glory Grant
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…
PPSM 34
Spider-Man has a growth on the side of his head. Absolutely insane that people saw art like this and were like “THIS is the guy we want drawing Spider-Man! On and off…
PPSM 30
Kicking this block off with PPSM because I think it just flows a little better that way. We’re now firmly in the era where comics are telling 5 and 6 part stories,…
ASM V2 Annual 2001
So this one’s weird right from the cover because that image is from the Spider-Man video game. It was in ads in all Marvel Comics for several months before this issue came…
ASM V2 28
Here we go, the big 4-part story that sees Howard Mackie out the door. And we also have Romita. Jr. getting the memo to make the covers more generic and iconic. He…
ASM V2 27
There’s an odd cover idea. This month, the Spider-Office is newly under the auspices of Axel Alonso, recently poached from DC’s Vertigo arm, where he edited a truly remarkable run of really…
ASM V2 24
After 2 years of build up, the rudderless Senator Ward saga will wrap up in the midst of Maximum Security. It felt like Ward was endlessly haunting these pages during much of…
ASM V2 23
Picking up from last issue without pretense for a change, we find Spider-Man and Arthur Stacy debating whether to kill Senator Ward (While recapping right at each other like they weren’t there…
ASM V2 22
Welcome the brand-new artist of ASM, John Romita, Jr.! What, he was just gonna leave? He’s going to outlast Howard Mackie. It’s really starting to bother me that every issue of ASM…