If there’s one surefire selling method for comics, it’s “big foot on cover.” The covers to both these issues got some gentle and sometimes not-so-gentle ribbing online. Well, Hulk’s about to crush…
Tag: Joe Robertson
UMTU 02
Before Peter can investigate the Kingpin, he’s got someone else to meet. I mean, maybe. I’m not sure what the intended reading order was. UMTU 3 came out the same month as…
USM 008
Alright, we’re back, and it’s time for our 2nd arc. From now on, Bendis is the sole writer. Marvel came to him with USM, and Bill Jemas had the major beats hammered…
USM 006
Alright. We’ve finished the 21st Century version of the origin. What next? Gotta have a Bugle and a J. Jonah, of course! Bendis actually worked for a newspaper before (And, as I…
PPSM 24
Maximum Security! The wild but ultimately not too memorable crossover event idea in which various alien races decide to turn Earth into a prison for their own criminals. Chaos ensues, as you’d…
PPSM 23
Few covers in the period scream “We got Photohsop!” like this one. Peep that drop shadow. At least this is the rare situation where having a bunch of different fonts on the…
ASM V2 20
See what I did last post? Ho ho. Now here we have an unusual thing, the 100 Page Monster. This was apparently based on something DC did in the 70s that Tom…
PPSM 19
Look at that ugly blur. It adds nothing to the image, makes it actively uglier, and makes all the effort Larsen put into the background largely meaningless. I hate blurs in comics….
PPSM 18
Great cover! I love this scribbly hatching phase for Romita. Fan bloggin never stops. But, crushingly, interiors are courtesy of Graham Nolan. No slight to him, but anyone but Romita is a…
ASM V2 18
Not the best cover to announce your biggest villain is back. “Can you guess whose hands these are?” This issue is John Byrne’s last (Huzzah!) and to send him off in style,…