No reason Norman couldn’t have reverted to the classic suit for this. I wish he had. We open on the Green Goblin throwing an unconscious Spider-Man off the bridge… you know the…
Tag: Roger Stern
ROGG2
Ya know, there’s another big, dramatic “return of the Goblin” event only a year or two from now. When I was putting my reading list together, I thought this was it. But…
ROGG 1
Ladies & gentlemen, please welcome Roger Stern back to the blog! If Norman Osborn has to be alive, this is the person I want writing him, and here he is, reunited with…
Thor 17/Iron Man 21
After all these years, here’s a first for the blog: I don’t think Spider-Man will appear in this post. Every post is tagged “Spider-Man,” but this one won’t be. I remembered that…
TAC 261
We’re back fo the big finish. It’s kind of crazy that Glenn Greenberg was the only one swinging for the fences while the books went into an obvious holding pattern for the…
TAC 260
Always a treat to see Romita, Sr. art. The covers alone completely justify this storyline. We pick up right where we left off, with Osborn and Kingsley sizing each other up. Nice…
TAC 259
Now here’s a thing that piqued my interest enough to buy Spectacular as a teen: The promise of a showdown between the original Green Goblin and the original Hobgoblin? A Romita, Sr….
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…
UTS: Strange Encounter
Almost a year after the publication of UTS 25, this was released, a squarebound one-off teaming Spider-Man and Dr. Strange. Maybe for the first time? I have no idea where it’s meant…
UTS 25
Here comes the big finale of Untold Tales. I guess there’s no bigger way to send it off than with a Green Goblin story. But it still feels wrong to me. This…