Welcome back to 1989! Young baby me has been reading comics professionally for maybe 2 years, tops? I officially only buy Amazing Spider-Man, but sometimes I get other things. Especially when buying…
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TAC Annual 05
This is going to be pretty much exactly what it looks like, so just strap in. About to be a Purple Rain of pain on Spider-Man. It’s Peter David, Mark Beachum, Joe…
TAC 157
Hey, Electro is back. It’s been exactly 100 issues since he last appeared in Spectacular. Also: “him.” Weird cover. Mike Esposito continues to ink as Electro is very annoyed. He spent a…
WEB 056
Boy, I’m glad crazy stuff like white nationalist riots only happens in comics. Hang on, where’s this one come from? No mycomicshop sticker, no McKay’s sticker. I don’t recall owning it as…
WEB 055
Back in the post about TAC 154, Eduardo Lobo said he & his brother had to wait for the next full moon to finish their war with Kingpin. And I thought, “That’s……
ASM Annual 23
Look out, Atlantis Attacks! This was a 14-part crossover threading through various 1989 annuals, including all 3 Spidey titles. Unlike The Evolutionary War the previous year, these annuals were more tightly connected,…
ASM 318
Time to catch up on some of the ASM we’ve been missing. This is another one I replaced. My old copy was really beaten up, the cover completely detached, and also, very…
WEB 054
I feel certain I read this one as a kid. I didn’t have it, obviously (Tho I really thought I did, even). I was reading comics out of the library still, I…
WEB 053
Werewolf problems continue! And it looks like this cover is where Alex Saviuk starts doing a more McFarlane-ish Spidey. But not inside, where Mark Bagley once again guests on pencils. And where…
TAC 152
This is the month I’ve been waiting for. Todd McFarlane has been doing whatever he wants with Spider-Man in 20 issues over 17 months to riotous reaction from fans. We’ve seen on…