I’ve already talked at great length about how Amazing Spider-Man’s “Alien Costume Saga” has an almost “origin story” vibe to it , but I haven’t spent much time examining another thematic element that is on...
Tag: Tom DeFalco
For the third part of the “Original Alien Costume Saga,” writer Tom DeFalco (with pencils from Rick Leonardi who was filling in for Ron Frenz), continues to use his first batch of issues on the...
Despite the fact that artist Ron Frenz did not provide pencils for the issue (Rick Leonardi has the honors), Amazing Spider-Man #253 maintains that “new beginning” vibe that was initially put forward in ASM #252...
After the success of my issue-by-issue review of the “Original Hobgoblin Saga” last year , I thought it would be fun if I made this kind of long-form storyline analysis an annual summer tradition –...
In the past, I’ve often referred to the simplicity of Electro’s origin story . When the character was first introducing in Amazing Spider-Man #9 it a no fuss, no muss affair – an ordinary lineman...
As I’ve discussed countless times in the past, different comics have varying levels of significance to different people. For some, the 1994-95 arc “Back from the Edge,” which was published in Amazing and Spectacular Spider-Man...
Gimmick or Good? is back this week with a look at the Tom DeFalco/Paul Ryan era on Marvel's "first family" the Fantastic Four . In this installment, I look at a five-part arc (FF #371-375)...
UPDATE: The second past of my Hobgoblin story is live on Comic Book Resources. As regular readers of this site should note, I have a bit of a Hobgoblin obsession . So much so that...
In yesterday’s post about Spider-Man Tangled Web #21 , I tipped off today's entry by saying for Christmas Day I would discuss a holiday-themed Spider-Man comic that I thought didn’t hold up as a good...
It’s a shame that the editorial chaos that consumed Marvel in the mid-to-late 1980s (aka, the end of the Jim Shooter-era) often overshadows the actual content of Marvel comic books during this time period –...