Bret Blevins is back to inking himself this month, giving his linework the surprisingly wispy quality I’m used to. His stuff feels very light and airy, and quite different from the heavy…
Tag: Kingpin
Sleepwalker 5
The 90s, man. While most new characters tried out in this period tended to be an attempt to cash in on what the soon-to-be Image guys were making popular (Read: Big, mean…
AF 17
Maybe I’m just no fun, but I don’t think Spider-Man should be retroactively made to encounter any actual supervillains before he really did. After, like, ASM 3, say, it’s fine. But I…
ASM -1
Man, is this gonna be the same thing as last issue but with superhero comics? It’s Tom DeFalco, Joe Bennett, Bud LaRosa and Bob Sharen, the usual gang from ASM in 1997,…
Batman & Spider-Man
It’s funny this worked out, that the 2 crossovers happened in consecutive blocks despite being almost 2 years apart. And look at that cover, man. Marvel was just smoking DC in art…
Deadly Foes 4
Looks like it’s everybody vs. everybody in the big finale. This issue adds a 3rd inker who is only credited as “Candelario” and sees Paty Cockrum return on colors. Everyone’s fighting like…
Deadly Foes 3
Will Shocker finally get over his fear? Or is this your traditional misleading cover? Only one way to find out. Al Milgrom is the sole penciler this month, and Mike Thomas tags…
Deadly Foes 2
Well, we’re back, and just in time to see Spider-Man get run over by a van, probably. Oh, look who it is. Ah, yes. Code: Blue. Wearing… purple. Do they always have…
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 277
Here’s one of several Charles Vess-covered books I got signed by the man himself in 2019. That was a great con experience. This one has 2 stories, and the 2nd is written…