It’s here. My dread built with every issue last time we hit this period, but it can’t be avoided: Maximum Carnage. An absolutely misguided 14-issue disaster that forced me to buy all…
Tag: Nel Yomtov
TAC 127
Here’s another one that just screams “filler.” While the other titles are in chaos, I wonder why so many of the Spectaculars of this moment are fill-ins. Maybe Peter David just didn’t…
TAC 123
I reshuffled my schedule a little cuz I just felt like getting this era done. This is the final block of this period, the end of the Hobgoblin mystery. But first: How…
ASM 283
It must be around the production of this issue, if not before, that, according to Christopher Priest, Jim Shooter had been pressuring him to fire DeFalco and Frenz for habitual lateness so…
TAC 122
This looks to be a weird one. Let’s start with the Arrested Development reference: Remember that show? Life was simpler then. This issue is awesome because they’ve finally, finally stopped doing the…
ASM 282
The last of this blog’s 25th Anniversary covers. We’re treated to another issue by Rick Leonardi this month, now inked by Bob Layton with Nel Yomtov on colors. We open on Flash…
ASM 281
Time to wrap this up. Frenz only did breakdowns last issue, and this issue, he’s down to layouts, with Brett Breeding credited with pencils & inks. Hard times for most of the…
WEB 019
This is one of many stretches where I’ve read the ASMs, but not the other 2 titles. It’s interesting to see what else our man was getting up to. Debuts for Humbug…
TAC 117
Now we drop back in on Spectacular Spider-Man, where the team is still technically Peter David and Rich Buckler, but Rich seems to miss a lot of issues. This month, he’s credited…
DD 306
She doesn’t like logos. It’s a war on logos. Bud La Rosa on inks and Nel Yomtov on colors this time as the boys find Spidey’s tracer pinned to the floor by…