And it’s Bob McLeod to take us into the home stretch on cover inks! Another sharp pairing for Alex. Man, “The New Kingpin.” The audacity of finding out Kingpin is going to…
Tag: Joe Robertson
WEB 088
Al Williamson! The master’s subtle inks and thin lines actually do the best job yet of bringing Alex in line with the emerging 90s sensibilities despite Al being in the biz since…
WEB 087
This time out, Alex inks himself on the cover. Watching him and Sal try to adjust to the 90s is one of the most fascinating things about this whole exercise. Just a…
WEB 086
I’m gonna say that’s too many Hobgoblins. And also, shades of things to come. No Romita, but this cover does get Al Milgrom. A good fit for Hobby. We’ll recall Al drew…
ASM 354
Interestingly to me, the remaining 5 covers to this event each feature inks by a different famous person. First up, Erik Larsen. It’s an interesting synthesis between two guys I think had…
ASM -1
Man, is this gonna be the same thing as last issue but with superhero comics? It’s Tom DeFalco, Joe Bennett, Bud LaRosa and Bob Sharen, the usual gang from ASM in 1997,…
TAC 251
Well, we’ve come to the last book in this block. Can’t say I’ll be sad to leave. More of this Kraven nonsense. Well, I say that, but nothing going on with him…
TAC 250
For some reason, we begin here a thing where someone’s decided big Osborn issues have to have Romita covers even if it’s not his book. I mean, I’m not complaining, but it’s…
SM Annual ’97
Oh boy. I think this is Calypso’s first appearance since McFarlane’s first arc, some 7 years later? That seems almost impossible. And… The Marvel Zombie. In the 70s, when The Comics Code…
MTU Vol. 2 1
Yes, just 3 months since the cancellation of Spider-Man Team-Up, Marvel Team-Up rides again. Briefly. And the very same month as the end of Untold Tales of Spider-Man, a comic we’ll see…