Hey-hey, comic book heads – I hope you’ll forgive me but I almost feel as though it were my mission to talk up THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN at any opportunity, so I would be remiss not to mention that there was a panel held to discuss the second season at the San Diego ComiCon:
Given that this won’t be debuting until the spring of 2009, and not on the Kids’ CW, it could be incredibly easy to miss out on the second season of one of the best animated series Marvel has ever produced. Well, as Stan as my witness – not on my watch, Jack!
I guess it’s true what they say about things coming in threes: a few weeks ago, Marvel got me to dabble in their zombie craze with THOR: REIGN OF BLOOD. Then, they got me to sample their Skrullberry Green ™ Kool-Aid with SECRET INVASION: FANTASTIC FOUR. This past week, Marvel did the impossible once again, and got me to purchase a Spider-Man comic that had BRAND NEW DAY right on the cover, and how did they manage that?
By filling it with content that had next to nothing to do with BRAND NEW DAY!
In fact, in all of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN FAMILY #1 the only story that was set in the BND status quo was a ten-pager starring Aunt May. Other content included an untold tale written by J.M. DeMatteis set merely days after Uncle Ben died, a largely forgettable MARVEL APES bit, a reprint of THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #300 featuring the first appearance of Venom, and – for the time being – the closest thing we’ve got to the proper continuity in the form of a story set in the MC2 universe called MR. & MRS. SPIDER-MAN, brought to us by Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz.
Here we have a story set in the world of THE AMAZING SPIDER-GIRL, in the time when May was just a wee drooly babe, and Peter Parker was a now semi-retired Spider-Man trying to help out a friend in need, while trying to make sure he gets home to his family at the end of the day’s struggles. All the while aided by a wife who understands his dilemma all too well.
But you know what the real kicker was?
Well…you’re not gonna believe this, but…by the time I got to the end of the story…
…I found myself completely unable to relate to Peter Parker at all! I know – I’m as surprised as you are! It was like I wasn’t even reading Spider-Man anymore. It was like I was reading…ARCHIE or something. Hunh. Guess Marvel dodged a bullet there, huh?
Ahh, alright, alright. In that case, I think I’d like to keep it light this time around, and hit y’all with a few images and strips that I’ve found here and there, in a little segment I’m gonna call, A FEW THINGS I DIG.
From gaming webstrip CTRL+ALT+DEL…
I’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t already know about THE K CHRONICLES, and if you don’t…well, here’s a little of the goodness. Enjoy…
Who knew that if you Google the word “steampunk,” you can actually get a pretty concise answer in return:
Heh.
And I wanna thank JIM SMASH !!! for leading me not only to this sweet lil’ thang…
…or to such blatant evidence of the many crimes of the infamous Greg Land for my previous column…
…but also to somethingawful.com, where I found THIS baby. Description courtesy of JIM SMASH!!!: The Something Awful guys took movie posters and edited them to show how they would appear “when viewed through the eyes of the typical elementary school kid”….. or Stoners.
Yeah, that about nails it.
And that’s it from me this week – special welcome goes out to new columnist Grey Scherl, author of THE GOLD STANDARD right here on the Nexus. Give it a look and praise be to the Booster! So until next time folks, always remember: the best things aren’t free. They’re messy. Take a moment to think of your favorite memories – your most fondly remembered moments, and ask yourself one thing: when it was over…were you sticky?
Just sayin’, is all.
