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…
Tag: Liz Allen
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…
PPSM 18
Great cover! I love this scribbly hatching phase for Romita. Fan bloggin never stops. But, crushingly, interiors are courtesy of Graham Nolan. No slight to him, but anyone but Romita is a…
ASM V2 18
Not the best cover to announce your biggest villain is back. “Can you guess whose hands these are?” This issue is John Byrne’s last (Huzzah!) and to send him off in style,…
ASM Annual 2000
Do not remember this one at all. It’s a Howard Mackie/Klaus Janson joint, so it’s gonna be weird looking with a lot of inventive composition. Steve Bucellato has his name spelled wrong…
PPSM 14
Who’s gonna draw you better Hulk than Romita, Jr.? Who’s gonna draw a more massive, Earth-shaking Hulk? Nobody. It’s still Mackei, Romita, Jr., Hanna & Wright over here, and we begin with…
DD V2 8
Behold, the end of the Kevin Smith/Joe Quesada DD run. This is basically just a coda to that story, wherein DD found himself protecting a mysterious baby. It seemed, by turns, that…
Chapter One 12
Guaranteed not to be fabulous! I have reached the end of my torment. Only one more issue to freedom. And look, Sandman’s finally shown up. Well, we begin with JJJ delighted by…
Chapter One 11
We’re down to the 2nd-to-last issue. This book has chopped up and disrespected a whole pile of classic comics to cram all they wanted to cram into it. Truly important comics have…