The Irresistible Force Meets the Immovable Object (Venom: The Madness #1)
I remember not liking this book very much. I thought the art was weird and didn’t get the story. The 90s were a time where every book needed to have Ghost Rider, Punisher, Wolverine or Venom to sell a book. The anti-heroes were big in the 90s and I wasn’t a fan. I liked the traditional heroes. Now, I get nostalgic and defensive when people badmouth comics from the 90s, probably because I’m an old curmudgeon and enjoy arguing with people. But enough about me let’s see how the book is.
Avengers: Towards Tomorrow! (Avengers #38)
X-Men '92, Literally (Uncanny X-Men #291)
I wasn’t the biggest X-Men collector as a kid, which is odd considering that mutants were the biggest thing in comic books in the early 1990’s when I was getting into comics.
Currently, Marvel is running an X-Men '92 series revisiting the team from animated series but let's see what was going on with the X-Men in '92.
Monsters, Mutations and Mayhem! (untold tales of spider-man #9)
This book takes place in the early days of Spider-Man’s career, but unlike Ultimate Spider-Man, this took place in the 616-universe, the main Marvel Universe. There are references to the original Stan Lee/Steve Ditko books but I don’t remember feeling like I had to find 35-year-old comics to follow them.
Spider-Man Meets Electro! (Spider-Man Classics #10)
Early Peter Parker is loser high school student, I was a loser junior high school student. He lived in Queens, I lived in the Bronx. Peter inexplicably went to school in Manhattan while wearing a shirt and tie. I inexplicably went to school in Manhattan while wearing a shirt and tie. He was terrible with girls, I was terrible with girls. I identified with Peter Parker in a way that I had never before. He quickly became my favorite superhero and still is now that I’m in my early 30’s and it’s because I had access to the early Lee/Ditko books.
Two-In-One: Captain America: Traitor and Iron Man Gets Whipped! (Marvel Double Feature #15)
Red Skull acts just like a Bond villain of the time. He comes up with this elaborate plan to kill Captain America, but doesn’t even stick around to get the satisfaction of watching him, his mortal enemy die. He also doesn’t take away the shield, his one weapon! Even on the Batman TV show from the 1960’s they’d take his utility belt. Just dumb.
Pro-Registration Captain America? (Captain America #346)
John Walker was a replacement hero and it’s interesting to see how he handles things compared to the original. He’s a rageaholic and a government pawn, something Rogers would never be. It’s also interesting to see the government Cap siding with registration, something that 20 years later the original Captain America is famously not in favor o