Peter Parker--"Fagged Out"!!!

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― Huk-L, Friday, 7 January 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Nice trousers Parker!

― robster (robster), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.nearmintheroes.org/images/Spiderman.jpg

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 27 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Okay maybe comics are bad after all.

― Dan (KIDS! DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME!) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Nice costume, Sandman!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 27 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 27 January 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Ouch, what the fuck is that?

― chap who would dare to no longer work for the man (chap), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Spidey's.

New.

Costume.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 28 January 2006 04:29 (twenty years ago)

It's just his pinky.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 28 January 2006 09:04 (twenty years ago)

He looks like a flying swastika.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

How many limbs has Spidey broken in that picture? Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with that leg?

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

And what's with the curvature of his right leg? Is the disease he got in THE OTHER Polio?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 16:04 (twenty years ago)

I think the artist had to bend the leg like that to keep it in panel. And I don't think I'm kidding.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

there's a spikey-thing coming out of his ass

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

to keep it in panel.

OTM, sadly.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

That's just Ultron sneaking up on him.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

You mean snaking up through him, surely.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:03 (twenty years ago)

See, those robot tentacle claws are from a robot that's sneaking up on him from behind, obviously. And there's an eclipse. You know how the light gets weird from an eclipse? It got weird. From an eclipse. It makes his costume colors look funny. Kraven broke his leg and made his webbing invisible.

Also Hypertime.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, refuse to pass judgment on this until we see a shot of Spidey from the rear that fully illustrates just from where these appendages spring forth.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, await the scene where Mary Jane wakes up and finds Petey in the shower. w/ JR Ewing.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Bobby was in the shower. JR is a bathman.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:14 (twenty years ago)

I, for one, might buy a house with all the money Marvel is saving me in the coming year.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:16 (twenty years ago)

It's obvious his new costume is meant to imitate the seven legs of the spider.

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Oh, there's an eighth leg, but only in the MAX title.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 19:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.newsarama.com/marvelnew/Spider-Man/amazing/Straczynski.htm

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:05 (twenty years ago)

NRAMA: For the record, why is there three of them? Given Peter has four other limbs, wouldn't four arms have made a certain amount of sense?

JMS: Joe Q drew three. Don't know why. I kinda thought four would give it symmetry and make it more spider-like, but I think Joe was going for something with a different silhouette, which makes it kind of eerie to look at...which has benefits of its own.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Frankly, it sounds like it actually serves an interesting plotline (whether or not anything interesting actually comes of the plotline...), so what the hell.
I'm kinda sorted interested in this Gov't Demands Heroes Unmask (though it already happened with McCarthy & the JSA) thing, and wonder if it springs out of Daredevil?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

I think some Newsarama i-view w/ EdB said as much re: Daredevil's tribulations as a Civil War catalyst.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

JMS's description of Bullet Points sums up a lot of what I have in mind when I say (obv hyperbolically) that I hate writers. Someone never got over his freshman writing workshop.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I didn't read the E-B iView for phear of the schpoylers.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:29 (twenty years ago)

God, every time I read an interview with JMS I wonder why I like any of his writing. He might be the biggest tool this side of the Cosmic Cube.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

ILC UNIMIND ACTIVATE

I've definitely been feeling less JMS love of late (aside from his Supreme Power shenanigans, which I'm still digging). Spidey's self-explanatory, his FF is on the meh side of OK, and I hope I'm the only one here that's been wrasslin' w/ Book of Lost Souls.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

(Hi Tep! Sorry for being a grumpy asshole towards you several months ago.)

― Dan (And So On) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

I skipped on BLS because of the lost love. I never read Rising Stars but dug Midnight Nation despite not loving the ending -- it was why I picked up his Spider-Man, even, which I have mixed feelings about. (I even have mixed feelings about The Other, although he isn't the reason.) I liked Supreme Power at first but couldn't handle the slowness (that was a budget thing), and Strange wasn't bad but I'm not sure a Dr Strange newly fleshed-out origin is as interesting as an actual Dr Strange revival would be. It's kind of like doing the first trade of Ultimate Spidey and then stopping there -- interesting, but not satisfying.

But he's definitely a much worse talking-about-his-writing guy than a writing guy. I hate his mock "but that's factually untrue, these people is CRAZIES!" schtick with regards to anyone who has a complaint about something he's written.

(xpost; Dan, everyone's been a grumpy asshole to everyone else! I don't even remember it. So don't worry, I'm sure I've done worse.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I just read the JMS iView, and God help me, I'm actually now intrigued by what's gonna happen next with Peteykins. And Bullet Points, too (in a "WTF PARKER SMASH" kinda way). Funny thing is: he doesn't seem so bad a bro if you just sort of gloss over that "internet nutters" bit.

Really, I'm just a softie w/ no comic-fan backbone to speak of. Bend me, shape me, tiny footprint me, whatever.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 23:54 (twenty years ago)

What it is, I think, is that every time JMS says something assish, it reminds me of all the other stuff he's said, and my ice got thinned for that by someone pointing me to The Lurker's Guide To Babylon 5 when I rented that show from Netflix (my verdict: surprisingly good given that I don't like space shows), which included JMS's Usenet comments from threads related to each of the episodes.

And he just ... agh. It's his manner of responding to criticism. That's what bugs me. Any time when this is applicable, he comes back with some statement about how his take on a thing is plainly the only logical one, and anyone for whom it didn't work must be crazy -- he essentially ascribes the "ridiculous internet fanboy crankjob" persona to everyone who criticizes him, whether or not the substance or delivery of the criticism is ridiculous.

With Babylon 5 especially, it was outrageous, because here's a guy with a five year plan for his TV show, which indicates a certain amount of obsessive attention to detail -- and he'd alternately criticize nitpickers for paying too much attention themselves, or brush aside any complaints by pointing out that plan in a "shut up, I know what I'm doing, you just don't know The Big Picture" way.

Anyway, back to Spidey ...

There's a lot I like about recent Spidey comics, especially weighed against the long period of terribility endured by Spiderman fans (clones, Carnage, Chapter One...) But I hate the idea and sound of this Civil War thing so much -- and Bendis's Illuminati, too, so it isn't just Millar's involvement -- that I'm not going to read anything tied into it. Will all the Spidey titles be in the mix, though, or just JMS's? How long is this rotating team thing they've done for "The Other" going to last?

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe it's only meant to have three legs...

― Vic F (Vic Fluro), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh, the team rotation is done now! They just did that stuff for the first 9 parts of The Other. The Spidey teams going forward post-eyeball:

SENSATIONAL (formerly MARVEL KNIGHTS): Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa & Angel Medina
AMAZING: JMS & Ron Wagner (for the time being?)
FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD: Peter David & Mike Wieringo (THANK BEJEEZUS)

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Hell, I'll read PAD on Spidey no matter what's going on, to be honest. And Ringo's a selling point too. Well, dropping Amazing will let me add PAD's great-so-far X-Factor, then, so everybody wins.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 February 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

But still. Fire the editor who let that art slide by his BLIND EYES to be A COVER, NO LESS.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Joe Q should fire himself, now? (A: YES)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:40 (twenty years ago)

Maybe Bryan Hitch is allowed to draw characters with broken limbs.

Or Spidey has bendy leg powers now, because Spider's can do that you know. Which is like, I can handle him having 55% (but NO MORE) of what spider's can do, and that includes this bendy leg. Just one.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

I just don't buy that Peter's been spending all his experience points raising the Spider Percentile Points he rolled up at character creation, when he's clearly sunk some serious shit in Charisma in order to land MJ. Take that, JMS.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 2 February 2006 17:50 (twenty years ago)

AND Gwen. Because let's remember, MJ is just the fall back and his undying love for the dead woman can never be touched. Never ever nuh-uh no ways.

― Suedey (John Cei Douglas), Thursday, 2 February 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't feel like looking for the spidey movie thread, so I'll just state here that Topher Grace's imdb page says his role in it is "Venom."

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 3 February 2006 05:02 (twenty years ago)

And Paul Reubens is playing the "Alien Costume."

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Friday, 3 February 2006 11:20 (twenty years ago)

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