Not my favorite rendition of Wolverine. But maybe his first appearance on the blog in his new-ish suit for Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men, which is underway at this point….
Tag: Nick Fury
Secret War 1
As we’ve seen tangentially over the years, Marvel had some events in the 80s called Secret Wars and Secret Wars II. Secret Wars was allegedly named thus because the toy company who…
USM 039
Our boy’s been through an emotional ringer lately. Will things pick up now that he’s getting ready to shoot a hadoken? This is a weird cover. We open on General Nick Fury,…
UMTU 14
This month, UMTU welcomes Terry Moore, of the long-running Strangers In Paradise, among other things (Although I think he’d done little else at this point, he really stretched out into other areas…
USM 024
A surprisingly specific cover for the period. Cover date for this one is September 2002. UMTU is way behind. But UMTU 11 couldn’t happen til after Gwen Stacy was introduced, and none…
PPSM 41
Look at these misshapen homunculi. This issue begins with Spider-Man telling us various facts about octopuses as he discover Fusion is somehow not dead. He’s calling for medical assistance. An extension on…
PPSM 40
I do not understand the significance of the statuary on these covers. Well, Spider-Man is now wrapped up in Octo-tentacles, and Fusion wants to know how Spider-Man found them. As happens perhaps…
UTMU 05
Spidey and IM didn’t actually manage to team up last issue, so let’s see how it goes this time. First, we flash back 10 years to when Tony went to Guatemala based…
MTU 095
Steven Grant is now joined by artists Jimmy Janes & Bruce Patterson on lines and Ben Sean returns to colors. I’m continually surprised, going through this stuff, how many characters barely related…
MTU 071
(One of 77) MTU 69’s letter column said that, while the details were up in the air, if things worked out right, MTU 71 was gonna be the craziest issue ever. Instead,…