#tod smith

[jhsharman]

"The Pet Set", "A Dog's Life" ," Where's Charley?", "Window Shopping"

Familiar that third one, isn't it?

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

Another entry from Who's Who, a very generous double spread devoted to Vigilante that I'm sure Tumblr will unfortunately scale down badly. This comes from issue 25 of the original series of which Vigilante was actually the main featured character on the cover. Written and researched by Robert Greenberger, Peter Sanderson, Len Wein and Marv Wolfman with art provided by Tod Smith (the artist responsible for pencilling a lot of the Vigilante ongoing series).

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From Masters of the Universe: The Ordeal of Man-E-Faces!, 1983. Gary Cohn script, Mark Texeira pencils, Tod Smith inks, Anthony Tollin colors.

Info from Grand Comics Database

[panelswithoutpeople]

The Omega Men No. 18 - The Primus Army

by Doug Moench, Tod Smith, and Romeo Tanghal

[nerds-yearbook]

The Punisher one-shot No Escape was published with a pull date of August 1990. The Punisher was trying to hunt down a drug-lord, while Paladin and U.S. Agent (John Walker) were hunting down him. Among the deaths in the issue were Vincent Mangano (apparent death), Bobby Peculo, Bobby Peculo, John Bartoli, Rosa Bartoli, and Rob Bartoli. ("No Escape" Punisher One-Shot, Marvel Comic Event)

[splooosh]

Murdered

Tod Smith

[browsethestacks]

Peacemaker (1988)

Art by Tod Smith

[samasmith23]

Retconning the Retcon: How the High Evolutionary unnecessarily complicated the Spider-Man: Clone Saga

I honestly NEVER understood why Gerry Conway felt the need to retcon his own writing from the Original 1970s Clone Saga by stating in Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) Annual #8 (which was part of a crossover event from the late 80s called The Evolutionary War), wherein a supervillain called the High Evolutionary revealed that the Jackal (aka, Miles Warren) never actually created any clones of Peter Parker or Gwen Stacy, but instead that Professor Warren mutated his old assistant Anthony Serba and a student named Joyce Delayne into near-perfect replicas of Peter & Gwen with some sort of "DNA virus" that he created:

When I first read what the High Evolutionary said above, my immediate reaction was this:

"Nope! Nuh-Uh! I don't buy it for one minute! DNA does NOT work like that! DNA is NOT Lego Bricks! The idea that a literal college professor created a virus so advanced that can completely alter a person's genetic make-up to resemble a completely different person down to the smallest molecule is somehow even less scientifically plausible than human cloning!"

Needless to say, this retcon created a ton of problems for the writers & editors who worked on The Clone Saga of the 1990s when Ben Reilly was reintroduced into the Spider-Man mythos. Heck, the entire reason the Jackal was controversially resurrected during the Saga as well wasn't simply to provide more misdirections and red-herrings for the characters and readings (poorly I might add...), but also to try and undo Conway's retcons from the Evolutionary War crossover since it would have still been fresh in reader’s minds at the time. At least that's what editor Glenn Greenberg implied in "The Life of Reilly" essay:

However, both writers Howard Mackie & Terry Kavanagh were unable to satisfyingly address these continuity contradictions in either adjective-less Spider-Man (1990) #56 or Web of Spider-Man (1985) #125 respectively, other than quickly suggesting that the High Evolutionary simply just lied about the DNA virus bullcrap before quickly moving on.

It took an entire annual issue in the form of Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1 by writer Glenn Herdling to finally fully address and correct all the plot holes generated by the Evolutionary War crossover, essentially retconning the retcon. It was now revealed that the Jackal was a former assistant of the High Evolutionary who stole some of his superior's technology for his cloning experiments, but when the High Evolutionary discovered this he lied about the clone's existence by making up the DNA virus bullcrap through forged journals of Professor Warren's.

While Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1 did get pretty goofy in areas, such as revealing that there's an entire group of mutated animal people created by the High Evolutionary which secretly worships the Jackal like a god, the issue did at least finally acknowledge and put the High Evolutionary retcons to rest in a satisfactory manner. At least in my opinion as well as editor Glenn Greenberg's...

I still don't understand why Gerry Conway felt the need to go back and retcon the original 1970s Clone Saga in the first place though, especially since he himself wrote it?