Comics The "Imaginary" CountDown to Spider-Man IV thread...

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #467

"The Mask" - 22 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - John Romita JR.
Inker - Scott Hanna
Cover - John Romita JR.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #466

"Darkness Calling" - 41 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - John Romita JR.
Inker - Scott Hanna
Cover - John Romita JR.

Foil Variant

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

I love this 2-parter with Norman abducting Peter. This was probably the best Mackie issue post-relaunch (and that was due I suspect, to Jenkins more or less ghost-writing his issue).

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

I love this 2-parter with Norman abducting Peter. This was probably the best Mackie issue post-relaunch (and that was due I suspect, to Jenkins more or less ghost-writing his issue).

Yeah, Roger Stern wrote the prelude to this (in a mini-series), and Jenkins wrote the conclusion in PPSM. That was clearly the best issue of the entire story as well.

I got the foil variant. I didn't even know it was a variant, I thought that was the regular cover

 

[Spidey_62]

I love this 2-parter with Norman abducting Peter. This was probably the best Mackie issue post-relaunch (and that was due I suspect, to Jenkins more or less ghost-writing his issue).

Yeah, I agree. I have the trade these and the Stern issues were collected in.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Amazing Spider-Man #466

"Darkness Calling" - 41 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - John Romita JR.
Inker - Scott Hanna
Cover - John Romita JR.

Foil Variant

Another personal favorite of mine.

 

[Donald Thomas]

Yeah, Roger Stern wrote the prelude to this (in a mini-series), and Jenkins wrote the conclusion in PPSM. That was clearly the best issue of the entire story as well.

I got the foil variant. I didn't even know it was a variant, I thought that was the regular cover

Aloha,
It seems that they produced more foil than regular covers for this issue. The regular cover goes for as much as $40 on eBay.
Spidey rules

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #465

"Distinguished Gentlemen From New York Part 3" - 24 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - John Romita JR.
Inker - Elliott & Green
Cover - John Romita JR.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #464

"Distinguished Gentlemen From New York Part 2" - 23 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - John Romita JR.
Inker - Scott Hanna
Cover - John Romita JR.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #463

"Distinguished Gentlemen From New York" - 22 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - John Romita JR.
Inker - Scott Hanna
Cover - John Romita JR.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

That's a cool cover. But I forget, what did Venom have to do with that issue?

 

[SP1D3RxV3N0M]

That's a cool cover. But I forget, what did Venom have to do with that issue?

Nothing, i believe only the symbiote appeared.

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #462

"Slayers To The Left Of Me..." - 22 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - Erik Larsen
Inker - John Beatty & Rodney Ramos
Cover - Erik Larsen

 

[masteryoda]

So this is now the Countdown to the Ultimate Spider-Man movie thread?

 

[Themanofbat]

It's the "imaginary" countdown to the REAL Spider-Man movie thread...

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

yoda should start a real countdown thread with the ultimate comics

 

[masteryoda]

Time to accept the truth, old man.

 

[Themanofbat]

Time to accept the truth, old man.

What truth? The fact that AquaAss makes me hot?

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #461

"Set Up!" - 22 Pages

Also: 58 pages as described below

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - Erik Larsen
Inker - John Beatty
Cover - Erik Larsen

II - "Captured By J. Jonah Jameson!" - 20 Pages
Reprints Amazing Spider-Man #25

III - "To Kill A Spider-Man!" - 20 Pages
Reprints Amazing Spider-Man #58

IV - "24 Hours Till Doomsday!" - 18 Pages
Reprints Amazing Spider-Man #192

 

[Themanofbat]

Amazing Spider-Man #460

"Mirror Mirror" - 22 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - Erik Larsen
Inker - John Beatty
Cover - Erik Larsen

 

[masteryoda]

Amazing Spider-Man #462

"Slayers To The Left Of Me..." - 22 Pages

Writer - Howard Mackie
Artist - Erik Larsen
Inker - John Beatty & Rodney Ramos
Cover - Erik Larsen

How does he get his leg over his shoulder like that? That's ****ed up. Not eve Fibber's mom can do that.

 

[masteryoda]

Erik Larsen sucks.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

How does he get his leg over his shoulder like that? That's ****ed up. Not eve Fibber's mom can do that.

The one time she tried she ruined Eliot Spitzer's political career

 

[Spider-Gnome]

How does he get his leg over his shoulder like that? That's ****ed up. Not eve Fibber's mom can do that.

You have a point about that leg, but I really liked Larsen's stuff.

I had forgotten he had done some (relatively) recent issues!

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Erik Larsen sucks.

If by "sucks" you mean "a talented guy, who was roped into penciling a terrible Howard Mackie story that he had no enthusiasm for" then yeah, I'd tend to agree. Larsen has gone on record as saying that this is one of the worst stories he's ever penciled. Not a surprise he didn't put much effort into it. On the other hand, 'Savage Dragon' can be a pretty fun read (and not just "Hulk with a fin" as its detractors scoff) and I actually dig his early artwork on ASM and Spider-Man from the early 90's.