The greatest era of all! Is that true? I dunno. I’ve come to think of Web as a kind of directionless title doing this. I don’t think it has any truly great…
Tag: The Rose
ASM 425
ANOTHER oversized issue! Sheesh! It’s a wraparound cover. Here’s the back: On page one, Spider-Man saves a guy from a mugging while listing his powers for some reason, and then the splash…
ASM 424
Yes, what a… mysterious character. DOES Spider-Man know Elektra? I’m not so sure. She’s so mysterious she’s named on page 1: Elektra already feels out of character. Joe Bennett still on the…
ASM 423
WALK ELECTRO-CUTED! Ralph Cabrera and Harry Candelario join Bud LaRosa on inks this month, and we open on smoe family drama in the Robertson household. This whole Daily Bugle downsizing subplot doesn’t…
ASM 422
Around this time, people got embarrassed by Electro. I, in turn, an embarrassed by their embarrassment. The lightning bolt mask was too much, too silly, no longer acceptable in the 1990s, and…
ASM 421
Get it? Like Enter the Dragon? Do you get it? Do you? Ninjas are sooooo 1980s. ASM is still Tom DeFalco, sometimes Steve Skroce, Bud La rosa and good ol’ Bob Sharen…
ASM 278
Striking cover. I wonder who did it? I can’t quite guess. And as the text suggests, The Scourge of The Underworld isn’t done with this title yet. In this era Tom DeFalco…
ASM 276
Pretty classic kind of cover, there. “Not… him!” Daring you not to put down your 75 cents, open the book and find out who. Random thought I had last block that I’m…
ASM 275
Just 25 issues after that passive-aggressive-seeming “special normal-sized 250th issue” blurb, an extra-sized 275. I have always thought it was funny when old comics called an issue “book length” and it’s, for…
ASM 420
Steve Skroce made his name on X-Man, a comic about a young Cable from an alternate reality hanging out on the prime Marvel Earth, so I guess they felt this needed to…