Spider-Man & Black Cat vs the Spot by Chris Moreno

I’ve been requesting some commissions recently that highlight some of my favorite stories, and this is one of them. Around the mid ‘80’s as a kid is when I started getting into comics, one of my favorite books was Spectacular Spider-man. This was a run that started in the high 80’s through issue 100 – it was almost a Spidey/Black Cat team-up book. Those issues had a lot of great elements: the black costume, the Black Cat (and her up and down relationship with Spider-man), the crime angle involving unique characters like Cloak & Dagger, the Kingpin, and the very offbeat character the Spot – his unique powers I thought always brought up some nice visuals.

98-100 were my favorite in the run, and I thought it would be great to get a commission underscoring those issues. Chris is a great guy, and I’ve gotten a commission from him before but wanted to get one that played up the humorous elements which he does so well. I sent him this idea before Phoenix Comicon and he said he also loved these Spidey issues (and the Spot!) and agreed to take this on – I’m glad he did! The coloring is awesome, he played up the Spot’s visuals, and added Felicia’s bad luck power in a pretty comedic way – really nice all around.