That is one weird moon. Smooth moon. We got a smooth moon now. Tom Palmer pitches in on inks this month, as we being with a page recycling one panel each of…
Tag: Wolverine
ASM 519
Hey, look, we’re randomly using a new logo. Why? To usher in the New Avengers era? As good a guess as any. New Avengers’ first arc is wrapping up the month this…
New Avengers 06
Time to wrap up this team’s first adventure. We open on Spider-Woman yelling at Yelena from the distance that she’s really messing up, that Spider-Woman is a Level 7 SHIELD agent, that…
New Avengers 05
The way Jim Lee and his followers insist muscular men have these deformed, huge wrists is very funny to me. Like it’s Lee making a peculiar drawing choice, and then a literal…
New Avengers 04
“Why don’t women read comics? We just don’t know!” This month begins with Jessica Drew arriving at Stark Tower as Tony is talking to Maria Hill, acting head of SHIELD after what…
Secret War 4
Well, here we are, 6 months after last issue. Secret Wars started the same month as the Pulse. Pulse 6-10 are Secret War tie-ins. And now this book is so late that…
Secret War 3
This one opens with a 2-page, Spider-Man’s-eye-view splash of the book’s other heroes fighting various goons in recognizable supervillain tech. Doc Ock arms, Scorpion tails, Vulture wings. Constrictor, uh, constrictors, just so…
Secret War 2
Not my favorite rendition of Wolverine. But maybe his first appearance on the blog in his new-ish suit for Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men, which is underway at this point….
UXM 36 & 37
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,…
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…