Blogs Tagged “Rick Leonardi”

• Spider-view: "Downtown" (Spider-Man 2099, Part 3)—Nathan, 05.13.2025
  Peter David introduces a fascinating villain and conducts more great character development in this three-parter
• Spider-view: "The Specialist" (Spider-Man 2099, Part 2)—Nathan, 02.22.2025
  Miguel O'Hara's second trip into superheroics contrasts his Spider-Man with Peter Parker's...while the art creates a contrast with earlier issues
• (Strand)om Stories: Daredevil Epic Collection: It Comes With the Claws Review—Nathan, 02.11.2025
  Multiple creators struggle, one more successfully than others, to reshape Matt Murdock's new life in the wake of Frank Miller
• Spider-view: "Spider-Man 2099" (Spider-Man 2099, Part 1)—Nathan, 02.17.2024
  This three-issue narrative definitively introduces an amazing (if not spectacular) version of Marvel's famous web-headed hero
• (Strand)om Stories: The Infinity Watch (vol. 1) Review—Nathan, 10.23.2023
  This volume introduces a series laced with potential tension and characterization, becoming unbalanced as it dives deeper into cosmic events
• (Strand)om Stories: X-Factor Epic Collection: Genesis and Apocalypse Review—Nathan, 02.27.2022
  This volume introduces an intriguing team concept that seems fun but is unfortunately based on a wobbly premise fueled by a massive, unnecessary retcon
• Spider-view: Cloak and Dagger (vol. 3) (Cloak and Dagger, Part 13)—Nathan, 05.28.2021
  Old ideas jostle for supremacy with new plots, often winning out against these jumbled original concepts
• Spider-view: Cloak and Dagger (vol. 2) (Cloak and Dagger, Part 10)—Nathan, 01.30.2021
  Despite a few narrative bobbles, Bill Mantlo crafts a strong overarching story in this second Cloak and Dagger series
• Spider-view: “Such Sweet Sorrow” (Cloak and Dagger, Part 9)—Nathan, 01.08.2021
  Bill Mantlo presents an engaging, somewhat cliche standalone issue, including proper characterizations of Cloak and Dagger
• Spider-view: “With Great Power…” (Alien Costume Saga, Part 7)—Nathan, 09.12.2020
  Spidey's most famous mantra powerfully hangs over him in this DeFalco/Leonardi issue
• Spider-view: “By Myself Betrayed” (Alien Costume Saga, Part 4)—Nathan, 08.18.2020
  Tom DeFalco gives Peter, and readers, ideas to mull over even as a supposedly impactful revelation falls flat
• Spider-view: Cloak and Dagger (vol. 1) (Cloak and Dagger, Part 4)—Nathan, 06.16.2020
  The vigilante duo's first standalone series broadens their world and establishes Cloak and Dagger as people, not just heroes