Invasion of the Spider-Slayers. I haven’t seen this since it came out, but I recall not being too into it. Peter’s parents being confined to the one title makes this whole thing…
Tag: Joe Robertson
ASM 283
It must be around the production of this issue, if not before, that, according to Christopher Priest, Jim Shooter had been pressuring him to fire DeFalco and Frenz for habitual lateness so…
TAC 121
So, this is a wacky one. I guess Peter David had recently seen Rashomon or something, because this is him riffing on it. And, man, they didn’t have to go this hard…
ASM 282
The last of this blog’s 25th Anniversary covers. We’re treated to another issue by Rick Leonardi this month, now inked by Bob Layton with Nel Yomtov on colors. We open on Flash…
TAC 119
$1.95. That’s fair, I think. 2 cents less than somebody thought! Sabretooth continues to be a Spider-Man villain, and I continue to think that’s crazy. Crazy that he was just kinda laying…
TAC 118
After months of wandering around the fringes of this comic, little Alexander Woolcot is finally going to be in the A-plot. This month’s line art comes from Mike Zeck and Bob McLeod….
WEB 021
Uh… what? Are Joy & Peter not going to Ireland? Hm, maybe this is a fill-in. The creative team certainly suggests it. We got Larry Lieber hopping in to write and draw…
TAC 117
Now we drop back in on Spectacular Spider-Man, where the team is still technically Peter David and Rich Buckler, but Rich seems to miss a lot of issues. This month, he’s credited…
WEB 017
Oh, I wouldn’t dare, don’t worry. Ominous corner box. Ya know, I struggle to recall how and why I read this. It would’ve been in 2018. I thought it was in an…
WEB 016
So, that’s weird, right? In this era, Spidey group editor Christopher Priest was trying to justify having so many Spider-titles by giving them all a unique flavor. ASM was the big whiz…