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…
Tag: Howard Mackie
ASM V2 29
Hey, look, this month, Lee Weeks is on board. That’s perhaps because Bennett & Florea are on the big finale of this story, but even so, Lee Weeks doesn’t seem like a…
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 26
Well, that looks weird. Well, it’s a week since the events of the issue 25s, and Spider-Man is ruminating on them by way of recapping. At the end of his recapping (3…
ASM V2 25
Hey, an actual monthly issue of Spider-Man, who’d have thought? With a dumb, shiny foil cover, even. Welcome to the countdown to the end of Howard Mackie’s tenure on the Spider-Books. Joining…
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…
ASM V2 21
So, we’re back to Spider-Man being overwhelmed by Spider-Slayers large and small. Rodney Ramos pitches in on inks this month, added to the list of Mackie, Larsen & Beatty all credited with…