Who’s Spider-Man this week? Dusk! Johnny really threw himself a softball on this one. It’s still Howard Mackie, John Romita, Jr., Scott Hanna and Gregory Wright on duty for this book. After…
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ASM 434
This striking cover by Mark Buckingham is the egregious swipe of Joe Bennett from SMU 18 I caught last time we were in this period. I always liked this cover, it stuck…
SSM 27
Ok, now we can get on with normal business. Sort of. Not much normal about these 2 months of comics. Each issue this month had 2 covers, one of Spider-Man, one of…
ASM Annual ’97
Before getting back to the whole “Spider-Man adopts 4 new identities” business, I’m looking at 2 comics that came out much earlier that I held back. This I held back just so…
TAC Annual 14
I was kind of annoyed that this block and this whole era was going to end on something as crappy as SMU 5. But then I opened this to read it, having…
SMU 05
As if Spider-Man hasn’t gone through enough trauma recently, now he has to do this guaranteed-to-be-stupid story. Once again, shout out the guy at the local flea market for putting a single…
TAC 212
I obviously didn’t have this one as a kid, and I am genuinely shocked to see this guy come back. And to bring back this Steve Grant created character in the book…
ASM 389
Big finish. Big, dumb finish. JM DeMatteis makes his debut as writer of ASM. When I started his era, I obviously didn’t want to do it here. But we’ve managed to circle…
WEB 112
Time to see what kind of wheel spinning this team can get up to. Can Spider-Man raid another safehouse? Can Chameleon hire another goon/and or goons? Probably! All I remember about this…
TAC 211
Sal didn’t go to a big head for a cover too often. I must say, an effective cover. It’s what this story is all about boiled down to the essentials: Spider-Man is…