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Amazing Spider-Man #685 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (art), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The classic “middle issue” where the action transitions from the set-up (i.e. is Doc Ock possibly trying to stop global warming) to the big finale. Recap/Review (with mild SPOILERS): This was [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #684 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: After the smack-down that Spider-Man and the Avengers received from the Sinister Six, can anyone save the day? Recap/Review: The first few issues of this Ends of the Earth mini-event had [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #679 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Time is almost up!  How can Spidey prevent the future destruction of New York? Five Things:  1. This is how to pace superhero stories! – Slott really understands how to [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #678 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A new time-hopping Spidey story kicks off. Five Things: 1. Time travel done right. – This is how time travel should happen, right?  At the very least, this is [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #676 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: It’s an all supervillain throw-down as the Sinister Six attacks the Intelligencia. Five Things:  1. No Spider-Man in this issue. - It’s a very good issue and establishes a lot [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #672 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba & Karl Kesel (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The finale of Spider-Island.  How are the heroes going to stop the Queen and save all civilians who have turned into big, nasty spiders? Five Things:  [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #671 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A cure for the spider-infections is discovered, but the bad guys are surely going to try to destroy it. Review: This story is rounding into shape [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #670 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island transitions into a more serious story. What’s Good: Dan Slott seems to really understand what makes a good Spider-Man story as he is mixing together the elements of [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #669 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island is in full swing,  Will they find a cure for the infected folks?  Will Peter reveal his secret identity?  And who is the Big Bad who’s been working [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #668 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island really get’s moving as the good guys start to actually try to solve the problem. What’s Good: I was a little hard on Amazing Spider-Man #667 a few [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #667 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Everyone in NYC is getting spider-powers.  Oh no!  It’s Spider-Island!!! What’s Good: Honestly, the build-up to this Spider-Island mini-event hasn’t been that great, so expectations were a little tempered [...]

Amazing Spider-Man 2011 Free Comic Book Day – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Does Spider-Man need a little something extra now that he’s lost his spider sense? What’s Good: The Slott/Ramos team kicked off the “Big Time” arc for [...]

The Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time (Hardcover)

Written by Dan Slott, Art by Humberto Ramos, Inks by Carlos Cuevas, Colors by Edgar Delgado What more can anyone say about Spider-Man: Big Time? Seriously, I need to know because this was the newest thing my bookstore had in stock, so I’m trying to review it. But it’s kind of hard when the cover [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #654.1 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Flash Thompson is introduced as the all-new Venom. What’s good: This is yet another example of great art making all the difference.  Just merely having Humberto Ramos doing pencils on this issue pushes [...]

Captain America #614 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Stefano Gaudiano w/ Mark Morales, Tom Palmer, Rick Magyar, Mike Perkins and Butch Guice (inks), Bettie Breitweiser w/ Chris Sotomayor, Humberto Ramos and Frank Martin (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters and production) The Story: The trial of Bucky Barnes continues, with things going about as well as can [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #651 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Joseph M. Damon (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Scorpion back-up by : Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (pencils), Delgado (colors), Caramanga (letters) & Wacker (editor) The Story: The story arc wraps up as Spidey & Black Cat try to [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #650 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas, Nikki Damon & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Marc Gargan back-up: Slott (writer), Neil Edwards (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Morry Hollowell (colors) & Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: A new Spidey-suit makes its debut, as Peter Parker gets [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #649 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Tom Brennan (Associate Editor) The Story: Hobgoblin is back, but is it the Hobgoblin we’ve been expecting. What’s Good: This Thanksgiving I’m thankful for good Spider-Man comics.  My comic happiness meter is somewhat tied to the quality of [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #648 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Spider-Girl back-up by: Paul Tobin (writer), Clayton Henry (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Nathan Crosby (editor) The Story: Spidey enters the Big Time with Avengers action that was better than anything that [...]

X-Men: Messiah Complex – Review

Writers: Ed Brubaker, Peter David, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Mike Carey Pencilers: Mark Silvestri, Billy Tan, Scot Eaton, Humberto Ramos, and Chris Bachalo There probably will be spoilers in this about the entire Messiah Trilogy. Thou hath been warned! Last week I wrote about Endangered Species and how it set the tone for Messiah [...]

What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

Avengers: The Initiative #25 (Dark Reign) – Capsule Review

By Christos N. Gage (Writer), Humberto Ramos (Art), and Edgar Delgado (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I’ve been enjoying the transition that’s taken place as Avengers: The Initiative heads full force into Dark Reign. That said, I’m pretty glad that the latest issue of the series finally marks the end of the transition…it’ll be [...]

Avengers: The Initiative #23 (Dark Reign) – Review

By Christos N. Gage (Writer), Humberto Ramos (Art), and Edgar Delgado (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Avengers: The Initiative is almost always a sure thing as far as quality is concerned. Nearly every issue feels like a trip to a giant Marvel sandbox filled with all sorts of different characters. While recent issues have [...]

New X-Men #46 (Messiah Complex: Part 12) – Review

By: Kyle Yost (Writer), Humberto Ramos (Pencils) Messiah Complex is coming to an end! After two months of non-stop chase scenes, the pay offs are finally here. This is easily the best X-Men storyline I’ve read in a decade, but what I don’t understand is why Marvel planned to wrap up this series in the [...]

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