I don’t remember the circumstances of my acquiring it, but my childhood copy of this one has no cover. I got a new one during The Great Ebay Hysteria of 2018, so…
Month: May 2021
ASM 332
There’s those squares again. That is funny cover copy. Not as funny as this… But funny. And probably not as intentional. Note the drool. Erik Larsen is the one who gave Venom…
TAC 164
Still “The Non-Mutant Superhero.” I wonder if the editors of, like, almost all Marvel comics took issue with this. I mean, at this time, you had X-Men, New Mutants, Excalibur, X-Factor and…
WEB 065
This is too many villains. 7 bad guys and 6 of them are jobbers? Too crowded! At least The Sinister Six was 6 characters you might actually want to see. The coloring…
WEB 064
Well, that seems bad. Graviton alone was able to humble our hero before. And look, character boxes. This one begins following a van carrying Titania, Trapster & The Brothers Grimm to The…
ASM 331
Now here’s a weird one. This is one of a few issues where a very dark ad was actually transferring ink to the facing story page and I put a kleenex in…
ASM 330
I believe this issue marks the beginning of one of the great comics mysteries of its time: Why does Erik Larsen draw little triangles on The Punisher’s lips? If there’s an answer,…
WEB 063
That more or less looks like the demon Spider-Man Flash Thompson (And Betty, a little) fought during Inferno in TAC 148, AND kinda looks like Venom, and yet, isn’t either of those…
TAC 163
The Deadly Duo! Not sure that’s gonna catch on. As this one begins, someone somehow took a picture of Spidey being dragged into the sewer last issue, and it’s on the news,…
TAC 162
Back for more with Hobgoblin, and soon Carrion. We open on Hobgoblin attacking an armored car delivering a prisoner to The Vault, the supermax security prison for supervillains that nevertheless seems to…