Look at those claws. Starting around the mid-90s, making Wolverine have claws so long that they couldn’t possibly retract back into his arm became fashionable, and it stayed that way. You know,…
Tag: Wolverine
UXM 35
As is often the case, we rejoin the story the moment the previous issue ended. Suddenly, the baddies’ van is violently flipped on its side. As they get themselves together, the lead…
UXM 34
In the very beginning, Bendis was supposed to write both Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. That didn’t work out, and Mark Millar and Adam Kubert eventually got the gig. Millar had been…
UMTU 11
After the rather absurd label of “manga-influenced” was applied to not very manga-looking superhero art in the mid-to-late 90s, Americans (& Canadians) doing actual manga-influenced art gained steam. People like Adam Warren,…
ASM V2 36
Well, here we are. ASM 36 was released in November of 2001. With the delay between print and publication, you can perhaps guess what recent event had occurred that might have greatly…
UMTU 01
The unexpected success of USM meant Marvel was keen to expand the Ultimate line. USM was followed almost immediately by Ultimate X-Men (Bendis was originally to write both titles, even), but as…
Fast Lane
It’s come to this. As has been mentioned previously, Fast Lane was an anti-drug comic that ran in 4 parts through all the Marvel comics in 8-page installments, making it actually come…
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…
Alpha Flight 121
Boy, that’s 90s. And look who’s doing it, Pat Broderick, one of the guys who did cartoony and hyper detailed way before the Image guys made it the default. I’ll be totally…
WEB 029
ASM 289 would be a nice, clean ending for this block, but there’s a few loose ends to tie up. Starting with 2 issues of Web in which Christopher Priest tries to…