Well, here we are. ASM 36 was released in November of 2001. With the delay between print and publication, you can perhaps guess what recent event had occurred that might have greatly…
Tag: Kingpin
DD/SM 4
Now there’s a weird cover. We spend the whole first page on some Komedy Business as a drunk homeless guy has a cell phone conversation about stocks into a brick. Then he…
DD/SM 3
This month, page one reminds us Foggy and Natasha are on a side quest, but all the dialogue is Foggy telling you how DD’s powers work, and it’s weird. Then we’re back…
DD/SM 2
This month, we open on Kingpin in the hospital, surrounded by reporters who want to know what happened at his building. Kingpin appears to be covered in toothpicks. I guess those are…
DD/SM 1
Here we begin a 4-issue Spidey/DD team-up. My memory is not liking it, but I don’t know how much of that is just the art. Let’s see. Paul Jenkins writes, Phil Winslade…
Sentry/Spider-Man
After Sentry #5, they published a slate of one-shots focused on different Marvel properties wherein the title character awaited the Void and ruminated on his/their history with the Sentry. These were Sentry/Fantastic…
USM 012
John Byrne’s Electro redesign was boring and terrible, removing almost any identifying characteristics and changing his color scheme for no reason. One would hope that someone else tasked with redesigning Electro only…
USM 011
This month, we open on Peter at a computer at school, narrating that he’s been too stupid as Spider-Man, and that has to stop. He’s found the company that makes Kingpin’s security…
USM 010
In my recollection, this treatment of the webbing here is a reaction to the upcoming Spider-Man movie suit. I’m not sure the timeline works, but that’s what I think was going on….
USM 009
Looks like trouble! They forgot the credits this issue, so we’ll have to assume it’s the usual suspects. We open on the introduction of The Enforcers. Bit of a troubling thing I’ve…