Back to PPSM for awhile, because I really let ASM get way too far out in front. But, look, PPSM finally has the new trade dress we saw on ASM last block,…
Tag: Liz Allen
PPSM 47
Time to drag myself over the finish line of this one. They are still fighting, with florid, morose Peter Parker narration over it about how he’s a lightning rod keeping evil from…
PPSM 45
Really vying for “Worst Cover Composition 2002.” Look how big Spider-Man’s foot is. Who even is that in the middle? Peter? This sucks so bad. We open on a battered Peter in…
UMTU 11
After the rather absurd label of “manga-influenced” was applied to not very manga-looking superhero art in the mid-to-late 90s, Americans (& Canadians) doing actual manga-influenced art gained steam. People like Adam Warren,…
USM 017
Back to the main book, and maybe this month, Spider-Man and Doc Ock will cross paths. I’d say so! Meanwhile, Kraven the Hunter’s manager is showing him a new graphic of him…
USM 015
We get started this month with a tense 3-page segment of a lady exercising on the phone when Dr. Octopus breaks into her house and slowly starts coming toward her room before…
USM 014
We’re back to the Ultimate Universe. Original recipe Marvel is in mid-2002 where we left it, and this brings us back to late 2001 in the Ultimate corner of publishing. And we’ve…
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 004
The mandate for the Ultimate line, and soon all Marvel comics, was “iconic covers.” Just cool pictures of the characters instead of the traditional plot-centered kind. I think the idea was it…