After 2 months of unusually specific covers, we’re back to generic for the big finish to this story. Who can know what motivated these covers? I still kinda wonder if Bags just…
Tag: Ultimate Spider-Man
USM 052
This issue, before we get back to last issue’s cliffhanger, we check in on Kingpin, as his lackey tells him Elektra was assigned to “the tablet situation.” He doesn’t even know who…
USM 051
This month opens with some guys watching the same news story Peter was watching at last issue’s end. Exposition! That last bit is a somewhat predictable way to segue to Peter getting…
USM 050
USM 50! Ultimate Black Cat! They got Bags out here producing 19 issues of USM a year, and then they say, “What if one of them was an oversized anniversary issue?”, and…
USM 049
Weeeeeird face on Kingpin! And Spider-Man more or less has the same hands from last issue. Odd one all around. This is another one that somehow feels like it’s never been opened….
USM 047
Getting to these USM blocks is kinda like reading the 60s ASMs. It’s nice not to have to switch between titles and creative teams and decipher what goes where all the time…
USM 045
That’s one skinny ankle on that back foot! I wonder how boring Bags found these covers. I dunno, maybe it was a relief to just be able to crank out a random…
USM 040
These issue titles are getting really weird. Is the damage to the spine of this issue obvious from the picture? These covers got so flimsy when they changed from cardstock. We open…
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,…
USM 033
Venom! Venom? Venom. Bendis was very upfront about not liking Venom. He had no desire to do this, and I was on his side 100%. But Bill Jemas challenged him to come…