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….
Tag: Spider-Man
SMU 21
Man, it’s always a slog when it’s multiple oversized issues in a row. Even when the last one was really good. My primary interest going into this is going to be whether…
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…
SM 93
This issue is basically just Howard Mackie doing some pretty self-indulgent retconning. The Ghost Rider title got really weird after he left, adding all sorts of bizarre secret history and new ideas…
ASM 436
Will we really learn who’s under those masks? I don’t remember. I bought this issue, even though most months I was only buying Adjectiveless at this point, just to see who those…
SSM 30
I get what Ringo was going for with Black Cat here, and it’s a funny idea, but it doesn’t quite read properly. Felicia briefly seemed to have bad luck powers again last…
SSM 29
Something like 16 years later?… and still doing “cross your path” references. The House of Ideas. Now we begin an unfortunate thing that happens more than once with Spider-Man, where Mike Weiringo…
ASM/Devil Dinosaur Annual ’98
Peep that wild Michael Golden cover. His stuff sure does evolve over the years. Just in for a weird time this post. Moonboy and Devil Dinosaur are among Jack Kirby’s last creations…
SMU 20
Well, that’s a cover. Writer Christopher Golden takes over for, I think, the remainder of this title. I mostly know him for his frequent collaborations with Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. He seems…
TAC 258
Still seems weird to me that they got John Romita, Sr. for the Prodigy covers. I’m not complaining, but why just these? Or why not celebrity guests for all of them? Well,…