This month we get to the first of many comics from this period we’ll see with a 9/11 memorial box on the cover. For a company and really an industry almost exclusively…
Tag: Punisher
UMTU 07
Cool cover. Let’s learn about Ultimate Daredevil. We’re really reducing Ultimate DD to a pre-1990s-style blurb for a backstory? This issue begins with a cop starting a fight in a bar because…
UMTU 06
Something noteworthy is going on with this cover. Or rather, not going on. There’s no Comics Code Authority approval stamp. This is because the radical new management decided they didn’t need it…
Made Men
I don’t really know why this exists. I don’t really know why I bought it. It’s $6! But here we are. Howard Mackie obviously loves the crime side of Spider-Man and the…
TAC 255
This issue is a turning point in Marvel’s publishing line, which is odd, ‘cuz I would expect it to happen at the beginning of a month. This issue has the gatefold cover…
SM 89
Back on John Romita, Jr.’s home turf, and look who’s decided to join the manhunt. HOW many times can Punisher be tricked into going after “that awful criminal, Spider-Man?” The Jackal has…
SM 34
This team-up seems unlikely to occur inside. For the big finish, McLeod shares pencil duties with Lee Weeks, but continues as “finisher,” which implies a heavy hand on the Weeks material. We…
SM 33
That cover copy is so quintessentially early 90s to me. In that it’s trying to sound tough and edgy and ends up sounding very silly. We drop back in where we left…
SM 32
Bob McLeod! He’s been making Spider-Man’s eyes big and McFarlane-shaped for yeeeears and now is his time! The coloring on Spidey’s head here defies explanation. Is he wearing a light around his…
ASM 285
Did I really pay $3.50 for this raggedy thing? I have the vaguest memory of buying this issue. I feel like I got it in college. Why, I couldn’t begin to say,…