Well, well. I haven’t read one of these in like a month. But I’m over a year ahead of when they post, so no one would ever know. But I’m back, and…
Tag: John Byrne
MTU 064
Boy, that cover coloring is unfortunate. Misty looks like a hate crime. Twice! You can see in Colleen’s hair & shading that something’s just gone very wrong with brown here, in general,…
MTU 063
We return to the Chris Claremont/John Byrne run of MTU. I finally looked up the hard dates. This, their 5th issue together, is cover date November 1977. The famous Claremont/Byrne run of…
Deadly Foes 1
And now for something… well, not completely different, but… not often you get a book about villains, but in what would become a pretty common attempt to get more Spider-Man product on…
ASM Annual 13
They guarantee it! Let’s see how that goes. After a brief return to reprints for Annual 12, the book is back with all-new material this year. We got Marv Wolfman with the…
MTU 055
One of 77. A Dave Cockrum cover, but he really nailed Jim Starlin’s Warlock face. Dave Hunt swaps in to ink as Spider-Man is hallucinating all his friends and foes while being…
MTU 054
One of the 77. Hulk is dead! Can’t believe they’d kill, at the time, their 2nd-most-popular character, and not even in his own comic! Wild. Oh well, sorry, Hulk fans. Same team…
MTU 053
I found this one could be hard to get at a reasonable price. At first, I thought it was like ASM 119-120, where it’s still just an early meeting between our hero…
WEB 073
Oh, look. It’s The Headmen, those weird lames from the issue of She-Hulk Spidey was in. And, look, this issue is written by John Byrne, so that checks out. Byrne is on…
TAC 058
John Byrne and Vince Colletta come through the endless revolving door of artists on this book this time. Apparently Marie Severin was meant to be the sole artist during this run, but…