Who looked at this cover and thought “Yeah, I’m slappin’ ‘Burning Bright!’ across the top. That’s totally necessary.” Cover copy is almost always terrible, but sometimes it’s just pointless.Anyway, after flashing back…
Tag: Kaine
Redemption 3
We get rolling this time with Janine being loaded into a police van as reporters throw questions at her and she ruminated on how she “killed” Elizabeth Tyne and how Janine Godbe…
Redemption 2
Alright so Kaine just killed Ben Reilly’s one true love and left him to mourn her in this weird pile of mannequins. You can tell he’s Peter Parker by the way he…
Redemption 1
That’s right! It’s 1996 again, but by (Ever-so-slightly) fudging the publication orders of both series, I’ve managed to line up this sequel to Lost Years right after it. While DeMatteis has moved…
Lost Years 3
Ok, big finish. Kaine is watching through a skylight as his beloved Louise holds a gun on Ben and that Tannen guy looks on with Jacob Raven’s kidnapped son. Kaine is horrified…
Lost Years 2
Only a few years prior to this, JR illustrated Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, a 5-issue series where Frank Miller explored DD’s earliest origins. It’s where the black suit he wore on…
Lost Years 1
Lost Years! Probably shoulda stayed lost! But this does continue John Romita, Jr.’s return to the fold, so that’s cool. And it’s the 90s, so it’s a shiny foil cover! Comics never…
TAC 227
Would that it were. The opening splash this month looks weirdly nothing like Sal at all. Not the posing, not the figures, nothin’. Color Separations by Malibu, for all the fans really…
SM 61
Howard Mackie retains scripting duties this month, breaking Todd DeZago’s streak. Having one person script this whole event might have been helpful if the story wasn’t garbage and that scripter wasn’t writing…
ASM 404
Todd DeZago scripts from a JM DeMatteis plot this month, presumably because even ol’ JM was like “This is too stupid for me.” That’s 3 parts of this terrible tripe in a…