He's Got Radioactive Blood - The Spider-Man Thread

[Spencer]

I have noy seen Spider Man 2 or 3. Are they worth watching?

I liked them, although I was very disappointed with the portrayl of Venom in 3. Everthing else I pretty much liked.

[William50]

You like it more than the DT?

[Matt]

Apples and oranges Will

[Spencer]

I think that eventually there will be a spiderman series on the TV. Just like the Terminator.

There have been a few, most of them animated, at least one live action one.

[William50]

I think that the movie and those should be enough. No more spiderman.

[Spencer]

His secret ID was already safe. Dan Slott took care of that in The Initiative.

I totally missed this. What issue was that in?

[BlakeMP]

The one with the Scarlet Spiders... issue 7, I think.

Spoiler:

Pete wound up getting tangled up with the three new guys in Iron Spider-Man armor, members of the Initiative, in public. In gratitude for helping him out, the Scarlet Spiders planted some seeds of doubt in the media that Pete was really Spider-Man, implying that he may have done it to help them with a sort of sting operation. It wasn't a 100 percent back-under-wraps fix, but it was at least as good as how they put Daredevil's ID back under wraps.

[Spencer]

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I'm remembering Iron Man and Daredevil both having their IDs outed in the past, and now of course, no one remembers. My main question is who's ID is still public in the Civil War thing? Everybody BUT Spidey? That's what it sounds like.

[BlakeMP]

Ah, that reminds me about something ELSE about OMD that pisses me off:

Nobody knows Peter Parker is Spider-Man now. NO ONE. Not Aunt May (negating one of JMS's best stories), not the Fantastic Four (negating the great Spider-Man/Human Torch miniseries), not Venom (negating virtually every Venom story EVER WRITTEN), and not even Daredevil, negating one of the all-time great superhero friendships.

Screw you, Marvel.

[Jimmy]

I think that eventually there will be a spiderman series on the TV. Just like the Terminator.

I'd prefer a Joss Whedon produced X-Men show, but I'll take Spidey even though the last time it was tried, we got this:

[Jimmy]

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!

[Spencer]

Behold Ozymandias, King of Kings! Look upon his mighty works and despair.

[BlakeMP]

That would have made for a better book, all right...

[Jimmy]

The funny thing is, that if Alan Moore did a press conference where he said he was writing Spider-Man and that Peter would make a deal with the devil, erasing the marriage and changing 20 years of continuity, I'd say...

"Yes! This is going to be brilliant! Moore's a genius!"

Funny.

[BlakeMP]

Not me -- I think Moore is pretty overrated. I mean, he's GOOD, but he's not infallable.

[Jimmy]

Not me -- I think Moore is pretty overrated. I mean, he's GOOD, but he's not infallable.

I've read almost everything Moore's ever written and so far so great.

I'm still slacking on the Swamp Thing stuff and I've not had a chance to pick up Lost Girls.

[BlakeMP]

Honestly, I didn't like his Swamp Thing. I thought it was dull and ponderous.

(Yes, I know, blasphemy.)

[Spencer]

I don't like ANYTHING Swamp Thing. Just never got into the character at all.

[Old Man Splitfoot]

Thanks for the info. Yeah, I'm remembering Iron Man and Daredevil both having their IDs outed in the past, and now of course, no one remembers. My main question is who's ID is still public in the Civil War thing? Everybody BUT Spidey? That's what it sounds like.

Actually, I'm pretty sure Spidey was the only one who made his ID public knowledge in Civil War, with the possible exception of Iron Man. (I know he outed himself, but I thought he'd been outed before. . . Not a real big Iron Fan, so I dunno.) Super Hero Registration doesn't say that the registered heroes have to be public; only one person knows all the IDs of registered heroes. Hell, one of the recurring themes of Avengers: The Initiative is that the heroes in training are not supposed to divulge their sercret IDs to anyone.

I've been reading about One More Day for weeks on Newsarama, and it's just kind of funny to come here and see everyone as equally pissed. This really was a horrible idea that nearly no one likes. I'm not dropping any books off my pull list because of it, but that's because the only Spidey book on my list is Ultimate. But I still hate it.

[BlakeMP]

Super Hero Registration doesn't say that the registered heroes have to be public; only one person knows all the IDs of registered heroes.

One of the reasons it was so outrageously stupid to have Spider-Man do it in Civil War. The whole thing was a bad plot point shoehorned into a story that it didn't impact at all just to set up the crapfest that was OMD.

[fernandito]

Brand New Day - Anybody picking this up?


http://www.marvel.com/catalog/AMAZING_SPIDER-MAN.546

[BlakeMP]

Not with a full biohazard suit.

It's Dan Slott writing it, so I know it's probably a good story, but I don't give a flying fuck. I'm too pissed at Joe Quesada, and it'll be a long time before I spend another dime on ASM.

[Jimmy]

I'm not of the mind to pick up any Spider-Man unless the word "Ultimate" precedes it.

[Spencer]

I really want to see what Bob Gale does with Spider-Man, but I HATE the current "status Qou", just sucks, especially, as Blake said, since NO ONE knows who Spider-Man is, and a lot of great old stories and potential new stories have been negated by that.

[Spencer]

Speaking of Ultimate, still love it, but I wasn't a huge fan of the most recent issue, how they wrapped up the Goblin storyline.