This one represents my most serious attempt to ape McFarlane’s general style, but also Alex Saviuk on the mobster stuff and John Romita, Jr. on the Daredevil. Trying to mimic the various…
Tag: Venom
ASM 317
I paid more like $8. This one I replaced while buying up old comics. I have a pretty nice looking copy from my youth which, I somehow vaguely recall, was purchased from…
ASM 316
Another comic bought from the library. A shame about this one, I guess. Due to the stupid particulars of comic collecting, because of the cover, the 3rd appearance of Venom is one…
ASM 315
1989 is back! As the stamps on the cover and inside will reveal, my battered copy of this issue originally belonged to my local public library. I began reading Spider-Man (And many…
Backlash/Spider-Man 2
More Image madness with our friends Backlash & Spider-Man. Note the cover date. Another hallmark of the early Image era was chronic lateness. I don’t know if this was scheduled to come…
Backlash/Spider-Man 1
What the hell is this, you may be asking yourself. Rightly so! Welcome to the first of Spider-Man’s crossovers with characters from Jim Lee’s Wildstorm comics universe. Wildstorm was Jim’s corner of…
End of Block 15
A dark time for Spider-Man comics. Not as terrible as the previous block from this period, but pretty bad. Spidey cedes two of his books to The Scarlet Spider, Doc Ock and…
SM 53
“The best thing that’s happened to this guy in the TWO MONTHS he’s been a character!” What an achievement. Behold the glory of Eddie Brock’s mullet! Peter had a shaggy head of…
WEB 119
Boy, look at that cityscape. I happen to know Steven Butler was based pretty much where I grew up, coastal Mississippi, and this New York skyline really looks like it. Oh, goodness,…
SM 52
Tom Lyle had some questionable notions about hands. “He’s not a good guy!” I believe at this time, Venom was still starring in a monthly series of miniseries where he certainly was…