Spider-Man

By CalvinPitt(noreply@blogger.com) Have returned home. Home not destroyed. This is good. Very tired of driving, though. Too many other people on the road. How dare these other people decide they need motor vehicles to get to places when I'm driving? And that's roughly as much false outrage as I can spare. So, reviews then? <...

By noreply@blogger.com (CalvinPitt) I see people complaining that they found the book too tame and conservative. OK, I'm going to guess that they mean the book was very old style superhero comics, nothing new or innovative about it. If I were less charitable, I'd assume they meant the book wasn't "edgy" or "extreme" enough, wit...

By noreply@blogger.com (CalvinPitt) I imagine Norman doesn't even remember that he knew who was under the mask once upon a time. Which raises the question of what he recalls as the reasoning behind flying into Peter's apartment, finding Gwen, and carrying her off to a bridge to await Spider-Man's arrival. Thanks to the Fortres...

By noreply@blogger.com (CalvinPitt) At the end of the Clone Saga, Spider-Man #75, as Spider-Man fights the Green Goblin, he removes both their masks and says it's about two men, named Osborn and Parker. And it is. They're fighting on top of the Daily Bugle, and Norman had tricked many people there to kill them, all because they we...

By CalvinPitt(noreply@blogger.com) Amazing Spider-Girl #25 - So we have a Mayday Parker interacting with friends and family, but it's one having to use her diary to refresh her memory as to important stuff in her life. That would seem to suggest something, but doesn't seem certain why she can't remember these things. Arana is t...

By CalvinPitt(noreply@blogger.com) So it's Thursday. Time for comics, right? Wrong. Due to some sort of snafu between UPS and Diamond, Ken (and if what they told him was correct) all the other shops that get their wares from the Memphis distribution center, got jack all today. So, no new comics today. Another day of waiting.

By CalvinPitt(noreply@blogger.com) So we know Shade has at least moderately enhanced strength, as he can trade punches with Spider-Man. When he's in the physical world, he can turn intangible, and create portals back to the Astral plane, either for himself or with at least one passenger. He thinks he's clever, but up to the tim...

By CalvinPitt Here's the catch. While I'm perfectly fine with black and white art when it comes to manga, I tend to like my American comics with color art, a feature I understand is lacking in the Essentials. It's not that I don't think the comics will be readable without color, I just worry that since color w...

By CalvinPitt I say "you", because I'm done. I just have no energy to deal with giant Skrull crossover junk. I was dumb enough to stay through those Civil War tie-in issues of Ms. Marvel that made me hate the character (not to mention all the depressing Amazing Spider-Man CW tie-ins I bought), I'm not making t...

By CalvinPitt So the cover for the upcoming Ultimate Spider-Man issue showed Magneto with Spidey, Iceman, and Liz (Ultimate Firestar, I guess) charging towards him. I'd really like to see those three, plus Kitty and the Human Torch all trying to throw down with Mister Master of Magnetism to stop him fro...

By CalvinPitt I've been thinking about Ultimate Spider-Man, and Liz having her powers suddenly flare up. She's probably a mutant, but for some reason I think she's actually the result of some genetic tampering, like Spider-Man, or Geldoff. Poor Geldoff, so disliked by the fans it drove him to the misera...

By CalvinPitt Anyway, it a five-issue mini-series that details some interactions between Webhead and Matchstick at different times in their lives. In most cases there's some conflict between Spidey and the Torch, but on a couple of occasions, the difficulty is between the Torch and Peter Parker, suc...

By CalvinPitt Well, I should give Liz a Hug, but she's on fire, so maybe someone can help her with that, and then I'll get around to helping her. {I think she's gonna need protection from Magneto more than a hug, but it's a nice start. She probably needs to calm down.} Johnny probably needs a Hug too, after that r...

By CalvinPitt Before I get to the one book I got this week (Diamond is really dragging on shipping those trades Ken ordered for me), tow other things from comics I read through in the store. Ultimate Spider-Man #118 - It's a fine enough cover. I don't really have anything to say about it. I'm glad the covers at l...

By CalvinPitt I was think of One More Day/Brand New Day. No, that's not what is supposed to scar you, be patient. I was thinking how Aunt May doesn't know Peter is Spidey anymore (until in a year or so, a writer reveals she really does know, she was just waiting for Peter to come clean with her about it). I thought...

By CalvinPitt So that was the other part of the post, what are some definitive runs for DC books. I figure Alan Moore holds that title with Swamp Thing, and I guessing Grant Morrison has it with the Animal Man, but what about Batman and Detective Comics? Is it Denny O'Neil, or is it Frank Miller's various wor...

By CalvinPitt Ultimate Spider-Man (104-117) - The Ultimate Clone Saga ended, Spider-Man helped bring down the Kingpin, and Osborns went crazy again. Also, Mark Bagley left (and I wept), and Stuart Immonen did his best to step in. He's done pretty well, but there's just something lacking. A lack of clarit...

By CalvinPitt Continuing my new Monday habitat of discussing games that disappointed me, we turn to Spider-Man vs. the Kingpin, for the Game Gear. In this game, Kingpin has framed Spider-Man for stealing a nuke, and Spidey has 24 hours to defeat a host of bad guys, which will get him the keys to the nuke, and...

By CalvinPitt DeFalco's doing some interesting things here, bringing in ideas that have cropped up in Marvel the last few years or so, and trying to work them into his story. To wit: we get an Arana cameo, and DeFalco makes it look like the original Black Tarantula underwent a ceremony similar to the one th...

By CalvinPitt Joe Sinnott name check #2! This time around, poor Joe Sinnott is Norman Osborn's attorney, and he may have stolen Norman's money while Osborn was a guest of Nick Fury. And Wikipedia tells me this Joe Sinnott name-checking must be in honor of his birthday, which was last week, so happy birthd...

By CalvinPitt Okey-doke. 1. Spider-Man (various Spider-Man comics) 2. Ryoko (Tenchi Muyo) 3. Vic Mackey (The Shield) 4. Nicholas D. Wolfwood (Trigun) 5. Jade (Beyond Good and Evil) 6. Faith Lehane (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 7. John Gaunt (GrimJack) 8. Garrett (Thief: Deadly Shadows)

By CalvinPitt So as you might recall, I dropped Amazing Spider-Man after last month's beatdown on Kingpin. I concluded that the Spidey books in the main Marvel U. were just too grim for me, and I'd stick to ones that were a little more upbeat/hopeful when it's all said and done, Amazing Spider-Girl and Ulti...