After 2 years of build up, the rudderless Senator Ward saga will wrap up in the midst of Maximum Security. It felt like Ward was endlessly haunting these pages during much of…
Tag: Senator Ward
ASM V2 23
Picking up from last issue without pretense for a change, we find Spider-Man and Arthur Stacy debating whether to kill Senator Ward (While recapping right at each other like they weren’t there…
ASM V2 22
Welcome the brand-new artist of ASM, John Romita, Jr.! What, he was just gonna leave? He’s going to outlast Howard Mackie. It’s really starting to bother me that every issue of ASM…
ASM V2 21
So, we’re back to Spider-Man being overwhelmed by Spider-Slayers large and small. Rodney Ramos pitches in on inks this month, added to the list of Mackie, Larsen & Beatty all credited with…
ASM V2 20
See what I did last post? Ho ho. Now here we have an unusual thing, the 100 Page Monster. This was apparently based on something DC did in the 70s that Tom…
PPSM 12
Electro’s arms are weird on this cover. We don’t pick up with last issue’s cliffhanger. Instead, we start with a bomb going off and throwing MJ out of bed. He’s having his…
ASM V2 12
Well, the Spider-books have made it to issue 12, and comics love an anniversary, so they’re all extra-sized, extra-priced spectaculars. And ASM & PPSM are a 2-part Sinister Six event. And they…
ASM V2 Annual 1999
This is the book that will be about Betty investigating Senator Ward? I guess we’ll see. One I’ve never read before. You see the word “Buscema” on the cover of a Spider-Man…
PPSM 6
Took this long to get back to the Kingpin plot from the previous volume. So much of this book has felt like it’s offtrack. So many issues dealing with the fallout of…
PPSM 4
Sure are a lot of guest stars in these early issues of the relaunch. Marrow, of all people. Returning the favor for her team-up with Spidey in Uncanny X-Men 346, presumably. So…