Once upon a time, in a far off land known as the 1970s, Marvel got the rights to publish Conan comics. He rather surprisingly became one of their biggest characters of the…
Tag: Joe Robertson
ASM 554
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers! First this issue, we check in on the meth lab Freak has been trying to get to the whole time, where a guy is named “Crater,” in…
ASM 553
I really just cannot get over how bad Jimenez’ Spider-Man looks. Why is his head so weird?! Jimenez is a perfectly capable artist! I get that he’s riffing on Todd McFarlane, but…
ASM 552
Now it’s time for Bob Gale’s inaugural 3-parter. I guess each writer musta had one. He is joined by Phil Jimenez & Andy Lanning on line art and Jeromy Cox on colors….
ASM 548
The great Dave Stewart randomly takes over colors this week. Morry Hollowell has a very particular, recognizable coloring style, and I think he’d colored everything McNiven & Vines had done for Marvel…
ASM 547
Let’s just hop right in there: Certainly not a splash you had seen before. Oh, Robbie, I missed you. Wow, a Spider-Man comic with Spider-Man in it, how novel. Seems like something…
ASM 546
Well… Here we are. Swing Shift was technically the first post-OMD adventure, but being released months prior, it doesn’t feel like it. This, tho, is the beginning of the new deal. Having…
Swing Shift
Ok, we’re finally here. After all that pointless Back In Black stuff and a welcome return to USM, we can see what the Brand New Day era of Spider-Man is like. Sort…
USM 106
As we have tangentially seen, there is a thing called Marvel Knights. I imagine I talked about it when we looked at DD, Vol. 2 #8. Joe Quesada & Jimmy Palmiotti were…
USM 095
This month through the revolving door comes Jimmy Palmiotti to help with inks and Richard Isanove back to color. Look, it’s Morbius. Not the dramatic redesign you’d expect, either. This one starts…