Last issue’s letter column said this Jack O’Lantern was created in Mark Gruenwald’s seminal Captain America run. That’s untrue, tho editorial may not have known it at the time. That was a…
Tag: John Kalisz
TAC 246
Sigh. Big sigh. Ross’s Spider-Man is really off-model from his usual McFarlane-by-way-of-Campbell impression here. Looks like he jumped to the future and started aping ballpoint pen-era Steve McNiven. That’s a very inside…
TAC 245
Rrrrrrandom Romita, Sr. cover out of nowhere, hello! It’s become hard to remember my life before this Chameleon story. It just feels like it’s been going on forever. To open, Flash Thompson…
TAC 244
Yay, he’s back. Or is he? This is a lot of Luke Ross for a guy to have to sit through in sequence. Man, this time period. Lotta ups & downs in…
TAC 243
I’m reading these things so far ahead of when they’re published that once in awhile I take days or weeks off and it doesn’t matter. I’m not even sure when I read…
TAC 242
And we’re back to very late 1996, almost 1997. This may not be my favorite period for the books, but it is really freeing to think I won’t ever have to think…
SSS 2
Looks like virtual reality is about to get even stupider. It’s the last ride of Sal and Bill, with Jimmy Palmiotti also doing some inking. Bill will go down as Sal’s last…
SSS 1
A lotta punch-flying on this cover. SSS is Todd DeZago flying solo, Sal Buscema on breakdowns, Jimmy Palmiotti on finishes, and John Kalisz on colors this month. And it opens with the…
TAC 229
The End of An Era! What better time for an oversized and overpriced comic with a totally pointless plastic cover???? This month, DeFalco scripts himself, and Sal is credited with “Breakdowns &…
TAC 228
Doesn’t this look fun? Did they learn nothing from him hitting her? Actually, I think they did, I believe the Life of Reilly column revealed they had Sal redraw that hand, which…