Also apparently known on the internet as ASM Annual 35? I didn’t think anyone cared about those legacy numbers. If you count the annuals named for their publication year, this is #35….
Tag: Jackpot
ASM: SI 3
Look at that hair! The 80s are back! Spider-Man once again narrates the recap page, now from an issue of Secret Invasion that hasn’t even come out yet? What? And then we…
ASM: SI 2
Do believe the uncredited covers to this series are by Mike McKone. This issue of the Amazing Spider-Man Secret Invasion tie-in has a surprise guest star: Spider-Man. How could Spider-Man possibly know…
ASM: SI 1
You didn’t think they’d let a little thing like Spider-Man being trapped in the Savage Land alongside basically all the characters you want to see in this event for a pretty shocking…
ASM 561
Time to wrap this one up. I wonder how the writers felt about this format. In an era where 5- and 6-issue stories were the norm, so far it’s been 3 per…
ASM 551
Well, to get right into it, Spider-Man’s narrations makes a weirdly blithe joke about Captain America being dead (????), then he dashes around trying to do… something, the art is pretty unclear,…
ASM 550
Larocca thinks the spider on our guy’s chest should be huge one page, tiny the next. Stephane Pero swaps in on colors this time. the “who is Jackpot working with” question is…
ASM 549
Next up through this era’s revolving door, we have writer Marc Guggenheim, artist Salvador Larocca, and colorist Jason Keith. We saw Larocca on FF, Vol. 3 #9, way back when, but he’s…
Swing Shift
Ok, we’re finally here. After all that pointless Back In Black stuff and a welcome return to USM, we can see what the Brand New Day era of Spider-Man is like. Sort…