It’s my birthday. This is a rotten gift. We get through all 3 issues with no creative changes. Amazing. Spectacular. The bare minimum in ages past, but not now. We open on…
Tag: Jackpot
Jackpot 2
The Amazing Spider-Man, the Cadillac of Marvel Comics, can’t keep an art team for more than a month, but this can. I am perplexed. We open on Jackpot busting up White Rabbit’s…
Jackpot 1
I almost skipped this. I skimmed it. It seemed pretty dreadful. But it ends up having more than a little Spider-Man in it, so here we are. Marc Guggenheim may not be…
ASM V2 Annual 1
Also apparently known on the internet as ASM Annual 35? I didn’t think anyone cared about those legacy numbers. If you count the annuals named for their publication year, this is #35….
ASM: SI 3
Look at that hair! The 80s are back! Spider-Man once again narrates the recap page, now from an issue of Secret Invasion that hasn’t even come out yet? What? And then we…
ASM: SI 2
Do believe the uncredited covers to this series are by Mike McKone. This issue of the Amazing Spider-Man Secret Invasion tie-in has a surprise guest star: Spider-Man. How could Spider-Man possibly know…
ASM: SI 1
You didn’t think they’d let a little thing like Spider-Man being trapped in the Savage Land alongside basically all the characters you want to see in this event for a pretty shocking…
ASM 561
Time to wrap this one up. I wonder how the writers felt about this format. In an era where 5- and 6-issue stories were the norm, so far it’s been 3 per…
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…