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: The Rose
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…
Made Men
I don’t really know why this exists. I don’t really know why I bought it. It’s $6! But here we are. Howard Mackie obviously loves the crime side of Spider-Man and the…
ASM 436
Will we really learn who’s under those masks? I don’t remember. I bought this issue, even though most months I was only buying Adjectiveless at this point, just to see who those…
ASM 435
Let’s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who’ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed…
ASM 432
I forgot to mention last post that awful font is back. They love it. Strangely, Romita, Jr. is here to draw Joe Bennett’s regular title. Romita’s handling parts 2 & 3 of…
ASM 428
Skroce’s Spider-Man improved dramatically during this story. He got more sleek and less lumpy looking. The other characters did, too, to varying degrees. Simplifying was a good idea. We seem to have…
ASM 427
Shades of ASM 55. Speaking of, for some reason, they got Romita, Sr. to do a version on the fold out: Kinda jarring, really. They’re still in the era of a recap…
ASM 426
Been so long since we saw this era. Crazy. Tom DeFalco, Steve Skroce, Bud La Rosa, Bob Sharen on board. Gee, who could this villain be? Well, page one is is Doc…