Tom Lyle had some questionable notions about hands. “He’s not a good guy!” I believe at this time, Venom was still starring in a monthly series of miniseries where he certainly was…
Tag: Howard Mackie
SM 68
My daddy didn’t have a Hobgoblin, sirs, my daddy would’ve had a Green Goblin. But I don’t think he actually read comics. He never mentioned them, at least. As the Adjectiveless Spider-Man…
SM 67
This is the first one since SSM 0 I actually kind of remember. Because of the art, naturally. This story may be rather silly, but I mean look at this splash: Venom…
SM 66
I just noticed Romita doing it, and then went back and looked, and it seems all the artists have abandoned the unnecessarily complicated web pattern on this Spider-suit in exchange for the…
SM 65
Time for the thrilling(?) conclusion to Media Blizzard. Looks like deadlines got the better of JRJR on this one, as the middle of the issue is drawn by Tom Morgan and inked…
SM 64
Awwwww, yeah, it’s John Romita, Jr.! And if you’re not familiar, you’re gonna be shocked by how much his art has changed since his last appearance on this blog. He’s now totally…
SM 51
At last! He’s been an actual character in the book for 2 weeks, at last! He’s at the hospital still, and he recaps the crossover so far to the comatose Aunt May….
SM 49
Looking more like a magazine cover than ever here. This one is inked by 3 classic inkers in Tom Palmer, Klaus Janson, and Joe Rubenstein. And I bet it’s really easy to…
SM 50
Anniversaries should be something to celebrate. How do you celebrate when your job is to make Spider-Man comics sad? Let’s see. Vladimir Kravinov has come to the US, and is trying to…
SM 48
Well that’s rather a spoiler, isn’t it? I guess this is as good a place as any to talk about another change to the 1990s comics market that is most obvious on…