$2.25?? This comic, as it turns out, is in pretty bad shape? Very worn, some creasing, a hole in the cover! $2.25??? I’ve bought like-new books at McKay’s for 90 cents! Man,…
Tag: Hobgoblin
WEB 094
That gun and the way he’s holding it are really funny to me. “I got tired of gimmicks, so now I just bought the biggest revolver I could find, whatever!” Ghost Rider’s…
WEB 093
I’ve had this since it came out, and yet… why? Just a general fascination with Hobgoblin? I didn’t even have the other parts of this storyline. No idea. Howard Mackie, Alex Saviuk,…
ASM 283
It must be around the production of this issue, if not before, that, according to Christopher Priest, Jim Shooter had been pressuring him to fire DeFalco and Frenz for habitual lateness so…
ASM 281
Time to wrap this up. Frenz only did breakdowns last issue, and this issue, he’s down to layouts, with Brett Breeding credited with pencils & inks. Hard times for most of the…
ASM 280
Alright, with the whole missing stunt out of the way, we can check back in with a more normal issue of ASM. Why yes, that is The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man under…
SM 24
So! You give your biggest star his own comic book. And then he quits. So you give another of your biggest stars that book. And he quits. What now? Random, random-seeming fill-ins….
WEB 089
And it’s Bob McLeod to take us into the home stretch on cover inks! Another sharp pairing for Alex. Man, “The New Kingpin.” The audacity of finding out Kingpin is going to…
WEB 088
Al Williamson! The master’s subtle inks and thin lines actually do the best job yet of bringing Alex in line with the emerging 90s sensibilities despite Al being in the biz since…
WEB 087
This time out, Alex inks himself on the cover. Watching him and Sal try to adjust to the 90s is one of the most fascinating things about this whole exercise. Just a…