Starting off light and fluffy (trust me) with Jonah Hex #33 with first time, guest artist of the late, great Darwyn Cooke Things are about to hit a break neck pace in the Trial of Peter Parker, first in Spider-Man #60, one unanswered question gets a definitive answer Then, over in Spectacular Spider-Man #226…well, if I’m showing THIS as the teaser image, just IMAGINE what else happens in this one! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

Back on it with TWO issues of the Spider-Clone saga this week as the Trial of Peter Parker kicks off in Web of Spider-Man #126 But then, the Trial shifts in Amazing Spider-Man #403, so that can only mean one thing: Over in jonah Hex #32, however, it feels like a meme comic from 2021, but it’s not! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

We kick things off with Jonah Hex, a new artist, Paulo Siqueria and our hero giving a shout out to Lightning McQueen Then, over in Spectacular Spider-Man #225, the re-debut of the new Green Goblin, a (not so) shocking ending based on the last 20 weeks and a new adversary to give Wild Whip a run for their money If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

First in Spider-Man #59, are we seeing trouble in paradise for Judas Traveller and Scrier? Then in Jonah Jex #30, it’s best not to ask where that bottle has been: If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

First up, in Jonah Hex #29, we have a new artist, Rafael Garres, and as always, we get a look how they dipict our hero’s disfigured face Then, over in Amazing Spider-Man #402, we have the return of the all powerful, yet undefined powerful Judas Traveller! Wait a minute, is this where JMS got the idea for One More Day? Maybe the Spider-Clone Saga IS actually bad! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

I had to some digging to find an image of the cover of Web of Spider-Man #125 without the holo disc. Is this (and next week’s) issue tangentially related to everything we’ve been reading over these last four and a half months? Sure, but it’s more to introduce this guy: Why can’t things be simple like they are in Jonah Hex, specifically issue 28 here? Very little dialog, Jonah gets into a scrape or two and this time, John Higgins gets to draw his ugly mug. If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

First up in Jonah Hex #27, returning artist Jordi Bernet brings us maybe the first super hero crossover in a story called Star Man? eh, maybe not. Over in the jumbo sized finale of the Mark of Kaine Spider-Man Unlimited #9 brings us (a version of) the Sinister Six looking to taken down Kaine Todd had a theory that Judas Traveller may have been Mystiero, but there he is right there! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

First up, in Jonah Hex #25, a tale from the alleged grandson of Jonah, Woodson, as told by Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti with art by the subdued Russ Heath Then, the Spider-Clone Saga tests the tensile strength of the duct tape holding it together in chapter one of the Mark of Kaine. First in Web of Spider-Man #124, something that looks like a trashy romance novel Then, in part two of five, Amazing Spider-Man #401 shows us things get worse before they get any better Remember when Aunt May died? And Pete was in jail? A lot changes in a month! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

First up, in Jonah Hex #24, we have the return of Bat Lash, the return of artist David Michael Beck and the debut of realistic looking ladies! Then in the finale of Aftershocks in Spectacular Spider-Man #223, things get so dire for our hero that Jonah Hex shows up? My apologies, I’m being told that’s actually Detective Jacob (what about me, what about) Raven. I need to pay closer attention… If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

Ripped from the headlines of this week’s Longbox Heroes. we kick things off with Spider-Man %57 with guest penciller John Romita Jr.! This issue also had a fancy die cut cover! Over in Jonah Hex #23, very little clean, clear close ups of Jonah’s mug, but are their any other disfigurements this week? Boy howdy there is! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

Big milestone week for Todd & Joe Have Issue, first in Jonah Hex #22, not only does a real life person from history show up (no spoilers) but there’s also a robot! And, in the milestone Amazing Spider-Man #400, a lot goes on, secrets are revealed, a Parker will die, more returns and… yo, kayfabe there, Aunt May, someone could be listening! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

We are barreling to what should have been the natural conclusion to the Spider-Clone Saga, but instead, in Spectacular Spider-Man #222, Kaine ask a question we’ll be asking for the next 40 weeks: Then, over in Web of Spider-Man #123, Pete and Kaine perhaps get meta about this whole comic book thing Jordi Bernett returns in Jonah Hex #21 and strangely, for the main character, there sure very few close ups of him in this issue If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

More Jonah action from the usual gang, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray with returning artist Phil Noto, so this time we’ll get some fun Jonah-ism, like this in issue 19 So, while we’ve got a feel for Noto’s take on Nex’s face, how about some disgusting imagery from issue 20 But, over in Spider-Man 56, we get the conclusion to Smoke and Mirrors and how we stretch the Spider-Clone Saga from ending in one month to ending in eighteen. I feel ya Pete, I feel ya… If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

We roll on with more Jonah and the return of Val Semeiks on art chores. Issue 18 has tons of closes ups of Jonah so I had to find one where he was saying something dumb Big moves are happening ins Spider-Clone world as Smoke and Mirrors part one kicks off in Web of Spider-Man 122 That person sure looks familiar, albeit without his trademark outfit. Meanwhile, over in Amazing Spider-Man 399, remember eight weeks ago when these were a thing? Very ominous, very Watcher esque remarks from Judas Traveller’s right hand man, but the revelatations are coming in hot and heavy from here on out so buckle your force belts! If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

It’s the biggest Have Issues since it’s return! Is it sweeps week? No, just poor planning! Starting things off with Jonah Hex #13, part one of Jonah’s secret origin! Looks like that guy is a letter off from trying to do a journalism! Next up in issue #14, young Jonah has some more Preacher parallels, and no that’s (mostly) not mud. And artist Jodri Bernet puts up a Dean Wormer zero point zero on the Hex face scale in issue 15. Over in the Spider-Clone saga, we visit in with Pete in Amazing Spider-Man #397 with Web of Death part one I know in the Be issues, they said Parker was laid up because of the Vulture, but here’s Doctor Octopus and Stunner to save the day? Over in Spectacular Spider-Man #220, it seems as though Otto (looking more like Percy Pringle here) is up to something, is he up to good or evil? If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

The Web of Life rolls on in Web of Spider-Man #121 and we’ve got some hot, shadowy, flat Grim Hunter pondering And, over in Spider-Man #55, the big finale, the big show down we’ve been waiting for: Kraven’s son and Kaine! Then, over in Jonah Hex #12, artist Paul Gulacy draws lots of beautiful looking folks and Jonah is no exception What I’m getting at is, this is a 1.0 on the Hex scale of disfigurement. If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

My initial thought was to chronicle the times Jonah was hung from a gallows, but I think a better option is he different artists depiction of Mr. Hex’s face. First up, in issue 10, Phil Noto Then, over in issue 11, David Michael Beck seems to be channeling Eugene Root more than anyone else Next up in the Spider-Clone Saga, we have Web of Life part one in Web of Spider-Man 120. We’ve been focusing on Ben Reilly a bit, let’s check in how Pete’s doing Err…OK, not great. But let’s see if Mary Jane is doing OK, Venom came looking for her, she does appear in Spider-Man 54 Uhm, not ominous at all. But once we’re past Web of Life, we do head back to the Peter/MJ focused story arc…called…Web Of Death…I don’t like the sounds of that… If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

The big finale to the Exile Returns is here in Spider-Man #53! Not only do we get the final showdown between the freshly named Scarlet Spider and a green drooling Venom, we get a tease of Kraven’s son and more on this guy, who’s side is he on? Over in Jonah Hex #8, we welcome artists Dylan Teague and Val Semekis who remind us this is a non-comic code approved, non-Vertigo book Then, in issue #9, Jonah’s creator, Tony DeZuniga returns and takes our hero on a vision quest that may have ties to the Marvel Universe (j/k)? If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

I feel bad in poo pooing last week’s Jonah offering, but this week, starting with issue six, things feel familiar Also, while mostly drab in it’s color scheme, it is the old west after all, let it not be said issue seven doesn’t bring the action. Over in Spider-Man #52, the Exile Returns as Ben Reilly comes makes face to face with Venom And just in case you forgot, there’s more than one symbiote out there as the ghosts of Venom’s many, many, many mini series come back to roost in Web of Spider-Man #119 If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...

So if the chronology of the Spider-Clone saga wasn’t more hectic, depending on what collection you read, the next issue, Spider-Man Unlimited #7, which came out before the next issue, technically takes place after it The main reason for this is, this is the first appearance of the now famous Scarlet Spider costume! And Ben’s gonna need it, because over in Web of Spider-Man #118, he’s gotta face someone a few levels up from Wild Whip, VENOM! Now, over to Jonah Hex #5, just one issue this week, we have our first fill in interior artist, Tony DeZuniga, who draws a pretty gruesome eyeball If you want to help the show, be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Pocket Casts, Spotify Player FM, TuneIn, Overcast, Beyond Pod or Castbox and leave a comment. If the link at the top of the page isn’t working, you can always make your Amazon purchases through our affiliate link here! Or you can support on Patreon and get early access to episodes of After Dark and...