Invasion of the Spider-Slayers. I haven’t seen this since it came out, but I recall not being too into it. Peter’s parents being confined to the one title makes this whole thing…
Tag: Randy Emberlin
ASM 367
Lookit these jokers. Even as a callow youth I was like “This is lame.” Faux-Cap is obviously the worst. He looks like a backup dancer for Paula Abdul. And then the other…
ASM 366
This should be interesting. I haven’t read this since it came out, and had never seen ASM Annual 5 at the time. I just read a paragraph about Peter’s parents in Spider-Man…
ASM 365
We’ve made it to the last of the anniversary books. Technically, 2nd-to-last, though for its content, it should not have been, and also, it’s ASM, you’d expect it to be first or…
ASM 364
Startling developments! We begin with The Shocker, who, it turns out, Bags does a fine rendition of, attacked by some kinda flying thingy. Last time being The Deadly Foes of Spider-Man #4,…
ASM 363
This one seems to have been bought off the rack. Maybe I got smart. “Hey, Bags, you’ve had some serious work to do lately, this cover can just be big heads.” So,…
ASM 362
$4! I somehow paid less for the first appearance of Carnage than the second! How? Why? Where? I have this itch in the back of my mind that I got this at…
ASM 361
I love that sticker. $3! Yes, young me chose to pass on Carnage at first, I guess. I don’t have any strong memory of it. Might’ve just missed it, might not have…
ASM 358
As we bring it on home, Milgrom can’t let this whole thing go by without contributing to the art, so he gets to ink this gatefold cover. I like the rougher, scratchier…
ASM 357
PCR. I have to assume that’s the great P. Craig Russell inking this cover. The looseness of the approach would bear that out. Interesting choice on Spidey’s mask. Russell’s one of those…