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…
Tag: Joe Robertson
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…
Web Of Doom 1
We’re almost ready to hit Michelinie’s final ASM story, but first, this blatant cash grab. This actually saw print much later, the same months as ASM 392-394, but takes place before ASM…
WEB 111
What are the chances this is even remotely enjoyable? Sometimes I really feel like a dope having bought all these comics I was smart enough to duck back when they came out….