Spider-Man General Discussion

Say, am I the only one who feels that if one of the "Holy Trinity" of Spider-Man's supporting cast is on the chopping block for #700, that Jonah is most likely? I'm just thinking that while May probably wouldn't produce the reaction Slott wanted since so many people find her annoying and history shows that any attempt at removing MJ is inherently impermanent, Jonah is both a fan-favorite and has never died, making his resurrectability a completely unknown factor. He's also been receiving a large amount of Character Development in Slott's run; maybe that's to make us feel really bad when he goes?

I also think Julia's a goner, too.

The new Avenging Spider-Man was pretty wonderful...

Out of curiosity, have you guys heard of an older Spider Man story in which Spidey is helping out a kid who was molested and tells the kid a story of someone he knew who had been molested. It turns out that person he knew is none other than Peter Parker, who had been molested by an unnamed creepy older boy with white hair. Then after telling the story, Spidey takes off and acts quite flippant and Angst? What Angst? about the fact that he had been molested. Some people have snarked about how this would explain Parker's actions in One More Day and how this would explain why he's such a Manchild.

I'm sure the writer behind the story had good intentions, but the ending seems to disrespect the topic. Interestingly enough, none of the other stories seem to ever bring this up. Perhaps the other writers are treating that story as non-canon and discontinuity.

It was a pretty terrible story.

I'm not sure it was meant to be in-continuity. It's never been touched on since then, and it was in a short one-off special comic, not one of his normal comics. So my own guess is that it's non-canon.

Fun Fact: When that comic was first being written, they were going to imply that Uncle Ben had molested Spider-Man!

That fact is not fun! Its not fun at all!

Great, now I have to forget it again...

Huh! And that one website Cracked.com pretty much tried to imply that Quicksilver was the molester! But if it had been Uncle Ben, that would have made him an Asshole Victim, wouldn't it? That, and it would have ruined the validity of the "With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility" line.

Still, I'm glad to know that this story is basically non-canon. I bet the other writers realized how disrespectful the story was, and took a "I want nothing to do with this!" approach.

So /co/ is talking about making a Spider-Man dating sim, a.k.a Bitches Love Spider-Man: The Videogame. Your thoughts?

FUCK YES.

I recall, years ago, reading a Spider-Man comic (for some reason, I want to say it was a special insert in the Sunday newspaper)with a storyline similar to the one Tigger describes; however, in that story the boy Pete was helping out had not yet been physically molested, but his female baby-sitter had started showing him porn and expressed a desire to touch him. Pete then tells his own story, in which, again, he's not actually physically molested, but an older male friend who'd been paying a lot of attention to him started giving him porn and expressing a desire to "touch each other like they do in the magazines." I wonder if it's the same story, or just something cooked up as part of a "fight molestation" campaign...or both, possibly...

It was a special one-off issue as an anti-molestation dealie.

I've heard people say that the molestation story is briefly mentioned by Spidey in an issue of the regular series, while he's swinging around the city at the beginning of the issue. I think I saw a scan of that page too. No idea which issue though.

BEHOLD◊! The super-person with the most fantastic origin in all comics: THE WALL! A wall fell on him, and thus he became a wall! So simple, yet so utterly, beautifully fantastic!

Spidey Super Stories...why am I not surprised? The same series that gave us Thanos piloting a helicopter, trying to outsmart a little kid, and losing the Cosmic Cube because he tripped.

Can I stress just how much I love the Spider-Man newspaper strip? I got into it around 2009 (when they spoofed Brand New Day and revealed it was "all a dream" and that the real Peter was still married to MJ), and I've done some browsing about it and I'm swamped by the overwhelming negative sentiment towards it. Yeah it's a little daft and Spidey's incredibly useless at times, but it's still a fun and optimistic read, where good overcomes evil and heroes act like reasonable adults. Anyone else have a fondness for the strip?

The best story I've read of it so far was the Sandman saga where his daughter was kidnapped, followed closely by the one where Morbius ends up as the antagonist and eventually the hero of the whole story.

So anyone hear about Amazing ending at #700? Apparently its getting rebooted with a #1 in Marvel Now. People think its Superior thats the new book.

I heard. I don't think Superior is the book, though. That's not a very Spider-Man adjective.

Are they doing that restarting the numbering again thing? Why don't they learn?

Exactly what I thought.

I think the idea behind the Marvel Now renumbering is to get New 52 money without nuking their continuity into oblivion. It's working from what I hear.

I said earlier I think NOW is going to leave the New 52 in the dust. All the jumping-on-point-y with none of the reboot-y.

edited 22nd Sep '12 5:14:51 PM by HamburgerTime

Marvel has probably learned that number one issues sell better.

That they do.

Also this is probably going to be a new Spider-Man. Peter will die in 700 or have something happen to stop him from being Spidey. Then steps in 616 Miles.