Still seems weird to me that they got John Romita, Sr. for the Prodigy covers. I’m not complaining, but why just these? Or why not celebrity guests for all of them? Well,…
Tag: Mary Jane Watson
SM 92
As we open part 2 of the Dusk saga, Trapster has been visited by a gang of assassins called The Waiters, who all dress like waiters. This is pretty funny, kind of…
ASM 435
Let’s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who’ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed…
SSM 28
Last month it was double covers for ever issue, this month it’s this split gag for every issue. Always like an excuse for other characters to react to something like this. The…
TAC 257
Only one identity left, and they spoiled it in TAC 256, because this title can’t do anything right. Prodigy! The most heroic of the 4. JM DeMatteis, Luke Ross, Al Milgrom &…
SM 91
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…
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…