I had a very tiring day and I don’t know if I have the strength to deal with one of these, but here I am. Mysterio. 2nd worst classic villain in my…
Tag: Joe Robertson
Chapter One 4
As if things weren’t weird enough, it appears Byrne is just gonna skip ASM 4? Well, last issue, we left Spider-Man broken and defeated in the grass outside a compound Doc Ock…
ASM 441
Alright, then. Time to actually gather that pesky 5. This 4-issue stunt is the actual end of the era. You want something like this to really go for it, to really come…
SM 96
I know this is called the Gathering of Five, but did it rrrrreally need to be 5 issues? We know Norman will succeed in acquiring all the bits, otherwise, what’s the point?…
ASM 440
Suddenly, out of nowhere, John Byrne appears. His involvement in all this seemed random at first, but it becomes so pervasive that he must’ve been part of all the planning. By this…
SSM 32
When I started this back in 2019, I wasn’t sure if I’d really get this far. Reading 36 years of Spider-Man sounded like a lot. And it was! But this is the…
ASM 435
Let’s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who’ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed…
ASM 434
This striking cover by Mark Buckingham is the egregious swipe of Joe Bennett from SMU 18 I caught last time we were in this period. I always liked this cover, it stuck…
Web of Doom 3
That Shawn McManus cover has a lil something going on, a little moxie, that is not present in this series’ interiors. It’s almost cruel, suggesting that perhaps something interesting will be going…
Web of Doom 2
You know the crazy thing about this series? I have this vague memory of it feeling kind of exciting at the time. Not the series itself, per se, but the fact that…