Lost Years! Probably shoulda stayed lost! But this does continue John Romita, Jr.’s return to the fold, so that’s cool. And it’s the 90s, so it’s a shiny foil cover! Comics never…
Tag: JM DeMatteis
ASM 404
Todd DeZago scripts from a JM DeMatteis plot this month, presumably because even ol’ JM was like “This is too stupid for me.” That’s 3 parts of this terrible tripe in a…
ASM 403
Mark Bagley didn’t achieve the lunatic furor from fans the Image guys had when he came on the scene around the same time, in spite of a more than passing similarity to…
ASM 402
Can you imagine picking up this comic and not just putting it right back down and quitting on the spot? This promises perhaps the least-Spider-Man Spider-Man story possible (Until the absolute least…
ASM 401
Seems like a bad career choice. In this issue: problems. It’s JM DeMatteis, Mark Bagley, Larry Mahlstedt with normal credits, and then the weird growing pains of the 90s seep in, as…
TAC 223
The folks who make Web of Spider-Man must’ve felt ripped off to be the only title that didn’t get a fancy cover. This one makes no sense at all. In this period,…
SM 57
Welcome back to grim’n’gritty sad times 1995, where things won’t get much grimmer or grittier or sadder than this. Aunt May dead! Peter arrested for murder AT THE WAKE! And look at…
ASM Annual 24
Gil Kane! Still looking slick on the page almost 20 years since his last Spider-Job! This is weird because it begins a 3-part story across this year’s Spidey annuals, and as a…
MTU 133
First of all, I cannot imagine how last issue’s story could lead to Spidey and the FF fighting Dr. Doom who has apparently kidnapped Franklin, and second of all, the title of…
MTU 132
This cover is by the great Paul Smith, who was currently wrapping up a stellar run on X-Men when this issue came out (in 4 months, he would be succeeded on the…