It’s funny this worked out, that the 2 crossovers happened in consecutive blocks despite being almost 2 years apart. And look at that cover, man. Marvel was just smoking DC in art…
Tag: JM DeMatteis
TAC 248
At least I paid a fair price for it! If I understand the cover dates correctly, this issue actually published in June of 1997. The month after I finished high school. We’ve…
TAC 247
Last issue’s letter column said this Jack O’Lantern was created in Mark Gruenwald’s seminal Captain America run. That’s untrue, tho editorial may not have known it at the time. That was a…
TAC 246
Sigh. Big sigh. Ross’s Spider-Man is really off-model from his usual McFarlane-by-way-of-Campbell impression here. Looks like he jumped to the future and started aping ballpoint pen-era Steve McNiven. That’s a very inside…
TAC 245
Rrrrrrandom Romita, Sr. cover out of nowhere, hello! It’s become hard to remember my life before this Chameleon story. It just feels like it’s been going on forever. To open, Flash Thompson…
TAC 244
Yay, he’s back. Or is he? This is a lot of Luke Ross for a guy to have to sit through in sequence. Man, this time period. Lotta ups & downs in…
TAC 243
I’m reading these things so far ahead of when they’re published that once in awhile I take days or weeks off and it doesn’t matter. I’m not even sure when I read…
TAC 242
And we’re back to very late 1996, almost 1997. This may not be my favorite period for the books, but it is really freeing to think I won’t ever have to think…
ASS 1
ASS (Not my fault!) features a plot by Tom DeFalco this month, presaging his move to writing ASM when this is over, with a script by Mike Lackey. The art team of…
ASM 406
Oh, sure, this’ll hold up. No way the real Doc Ock won’t inevitably come back and replace this one. With purple hair, even. 1995! Can’t wait to see this issue’s Overpower cards….