365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 365: 🎵It's been a long road, getting from there to here 🎵

Ahem! Excuse me, but I'm just gonna toot my own horn for a second: I finally finished this feature, after starting...uh...on January 1, 2019. Well, I never said 365 Days in a row.

At some point I even lost COUNT, because 2020 was a Leap Year, and...well, the extra day is in there somewhere. Don't ask me to point to it.

Say Mary Jane's Aunt Anna, what do you like about Peter?


from Amazing Spider-Man: Parallel Lives graphic novel (Marvel, May 1989), script by Gerry Conway, pencils by Alex Saviuk, inks by Andy Mushynsky, colors by Bob Sharen, letters by Rick Parker

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 243: Surely His Attitude Zeniths A Mission

from Legends #5 (DC, March 1987), plot by John Ostrander, script by Len Wein, pencils by John Byrne, inks by Karl Kesel, colors by Tom Ziuko, letters by Steve Haynie
(Give yourself Bonus Bully Fun Points if you heard this in your head when you read that last panel):


opening to Shazam! TV series (Filmation, 1974)

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 80: This is clearly a mirror universe because the burglar is running past Spidey from left to right instead of from right to left as in the original comic book*

Panels from "Marvel Legacy Primer: The Amazing Spider-Man" in Amazing Spider-Man #789 (December 2017), script by Robbie Thompson, pencils by Mark Bagley, inks by John Dell, colors by Dan Brown, letters by Joe Caramagna
*Where's my No-Prize, Stan?!?

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 79: Wow, Ditko's style really changed in just three months!

Panel from Amazing Fantasy (1995 series) #18 (March 1996), script by Kurt Busiek, painted art by Paul Lee. letters by Richard Starkings

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 78: Wrong universe, Kara!

Panel from Adventures of Supergirl #3 (August 2016), script by Sterling Gates, pencils by Emanuela Lupacchino, inks by Ray McCarthy, colors by Brian Miller and Kristy Miller, letters by Saida Temofonte

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 77: A drive-in movie theater plays the MCU films way too loudly

Panels from 2099 Alpha #1 one-shot (January 2020), script by Nick Spencer, pencils and inks by Viktor Bogdanović, colors by Marte Gracia, letters byJoe Caramagna

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 76: Brian an' Meggan, sittin' on a tree / Discussin' responsibility

Panel from Excalibur #53 (August 1992), script by Scott Lobdell, pencils by James Fry, inks by Chris Ivy, colors by Glynis Oliver, letters by Michael Heisler

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 75: And that's how Peter Parker missed his own uncle's funeral

Panels from "Behind the Mask" in Giant-Size Spider-Man (2014 series) #1 one-shot (July 2014), script by Joe Caramagna, pencils and inks by Giancarlo Caracuzzo, colors by Sotocolor, letters by Joe Caramagna

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 74: They're dead / They're dead / They're dead / They're really really dead / They're dead / They're dead

Panels from Fred Hembeck Destroys the Marvel Universe #1 one-shot (July 1989), script and pencils by Fred Hembeck, inks by Vince Colletta, colors by Steve Mellor, letters by Janice Chiang
Inks by Vince Colletta? You don't say.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 73: To her, life is a great big acorn / Where there's a city crime-torn / You'll find the Squirrel Girl!

Page from The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (March 2015 first series) #2 (April 2015), script by Ryan North, pencils and inks by Erica Henderson, colors by Rico Renzi, letters by Clayton Cowles
What's that? You say can't spot a Power and Responsibility reference? Ah, but remember that in a Squirrel Girl comic, you must always check the footnotes!


I think what I'm saying here is, each Squirrel Girl comic should come with its own magnifying glass.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 72: I suspect this message has been slightly changed from the original in some minor way

Panel from Spectacular Spider-Man #1000 one-shot (June 2011), script by John Ostrander, pencils by Todd Nauck, inks by Mark Pennington and Victor Olazaba, colors by Ian Hannin, letters by Joe Sabino

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 71: "Incoming message for you, Captain."

Panels from Ultimate Spider-Man #4 (February 2001), co-plot by Bill Jemas, co-plot and script by Brian Michael Bendis, pencils by Mark Bagley, inks by Art Thibert and Dan Panosian, colors by Jung Choi, letters by Richard Starkings and Troy Peteri

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 70: Spider-Man: Shirker

Panels from What If?: House of M #1 one-shot (February 2009), created by lotsa guys

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 69: "And this one I call 'Spider-Man Eating Ice Cream with Jigsaw.'"

Panels from Thunderbolts Annual (2014 series) #1 (February 2014), script by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker, pencils and inks by Matteo Lolli, colors by James Campbell, letters by Joe Sabino

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 68: I feel guilt, I feel guilt / Though I know I've done no wrong I feel guilt

Panels from Spider-Man: Life Story #4 (August 2019), script by Chip Zdarsky, pencils by Mark Bagley, inks by Andrew Hennessy, colors by Frank D'Armata, letters by Travis Lanham

A tip o' the cookie to Twitter pals Dan Cassino, Matthew Craig, and Jeanie F. who helped me ID this page after I took a photo of it and forgot to mark what issue it came from!

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 67: Get out your crayons and draw the dots inside Spider-Man's eyeholes

Panels from "The Date" in Spider-Man Family Featuring Spider-Clan #1 (January 2007), script by Marc Andreyko, pencils and inks by Jill Thompson, letters by Mike Higgins
The always-essential Grand Comics Database has perhaps the single greatest synopsis of a Spider-Man story for this one: "Pete ditches a chance to hang out with the cool kids at school to visit Uncle Ben's grave with Aunt May." Oh, geez, Petey, never stop bein' you, ya crazy nut.

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 66: Now that is America's ass

Panels from Secret War #3 (October 2004), script by Brian Michael Bendis, painted art by Gabriele Dell'Otto, letter by Cory Petit

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 65: And that's when Matt Murdock walked in and slapped him with a copyright lawsuit.

Panels from "Great Responsibility" in Red Goblin: Red Death one-shot (December 2019); script by Rob Fee; pencils, inks, and colors by Pete Woods; letters by Joe Sabino

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 64: With great power comes lotsa crosshatching

Panels from The New Mutants (1983 series) #89 (May 1990), script by Louise Simonson, pencils by Rob Liefeld, inks by Hilary Barta, colors by Brad Vancata, letters by Joe Rosen

365 Days of Power and Responsibility, Day 63: Nobody's taking that bait anymore, Spider-Man

Panels from Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (2017 series) #1 (August 2017), script byC hip Zdarsky, pencils and inks by Goran Parlov, colors by Nathan Fairbairn, letters by Travis Lanham