Has Chris Bachalo made it onto the blog yet? I don’t think he has. Very interesting progression. He started out with a recognizable and unique style, right off the bat, and slowly…
Tag: Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 2
ASM 554
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers! First this issue, we check in on the meth lab Freak has been trying to get to the whole time, where a guy is named “Crater,” in…
ASM 553
I really just cannot get over how bad Jimenez’ Spider-Man looks. Why is his head so weird?! Jimenez is a perfectly capable artist! I get that he’s riffing on Todd McFarlane, but…
ASM 552
Now it’s time for Bob Gale’s inaugural 3-parter. I guess each writer musta had one. He is joined by Phil Jimenez & Andy Lanning on line art and Jeromy Cox on colors….
ASM 551
Well, to get right into it, Spider-Man’s narrations makes a weirdly blithe joke about Captain America being dead (????), then he dashes around trying to do… something, the art is pretty unclear,…
ASM 550
Larocca thinks the spider on our guy’s chest should be huge one page, tiny the next. Stephane Pero swaps in on colors this time. the “who is Jackpot working with” question is…
ASM 549
Next up through this era’s revolving door, we have writer Marc Guggenheim, artist Salvador Larocca, and colorist Jason Keith. We saw Larocca on FF, Vol. 3 #9, way back when, but he’s…
ASM 548
The great Dave Stewart randomly takes over colors this week. Morry Hollowell has a very particular, recognizable coloring style, and I think he’d colored everything McNiven & Vines had done for Marvel…
ASM 547
Let’s just hop right in there: Certainly not a splash you had seen before. Oh, Robbie, I missed you. Wow, a Spider-Man comic with Spider-Man in it, how novel. Seems like something…
ASM 546
Well… Here we are. Swing Shift was technically the first post-OMD adventure, but being released months prior, it doesn’t feel like it. This, tho, is the beginning of the new deal. Having…