This one… this one is a beast. Just months before New Avengers started, Joss Whedon succeeded Grant Morrison as the preeminent X-Men writer. Another “big” Hollywood get for Marvel. At the time,…
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New Avengers 10
John Dell and Laura Martin pitch in on inks and colors, respectively, this month, and those are some really talented pinch hitters to get. Should keep the book looking smooth despite the…
New Avengers 08
That late 90s Sentry logo looks pretty dated on these 2005 covers. A lot has changed in a little time. This one opens with a fun surprise: They lured Sal out of…
Secret War 5
DD looks sassy on this cover. I don’t think that’s the word you want for him. Well, it’s once again been 6 months since last issue. No matter what they thought after…
UXM 38 & 39
Wolverine is all face on this cover. This was one of Finch’s early weaknesses, he drew people’s heads too small, like there wasn’t enough room in their skull for a brain. I…
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,…
USM 044
I assume Spider-Man really falls to his death for a change in this issue. Let’s find out. It’s been a bit since I did that riff. It’s been a bit since Spider-Man…
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,…
UTS 21
And now, Spider-Man’s going to meet The X-Men for the first time. But we’ve seen him meet them for the first time in X-Men 35, pretty definitively, so this isn’t going to…
TAC 199
And we’re back. Castle’s still falling, heroes are recapping, it’s all happening. Archangel, being all tough and mean since he got transformed by Apocalypse, thinks they should just leave, but Cyclops won’t…