Spider-Man General Discussion

I only now noticed that an episode of Spectacular is the current featured article on Wikipedia.

Well, the show is definitely worthy of that honor. Weird episode to pick, though.

I believe the featured articles are chosen based on the quality of the article itself, rather than the subject.

MJ's remark that Peter can sometimes be as dense as his webbing yesterday in the papers was funny.

And, oh boy, Spidey and press conferences again today.

edited 10th Feb '16 5:38:55 AM by Zarius

The best part of that whole scene was Anna Maria bursting out laughing. "Amasscot."

edited 10th Feb '16 9:35:24 PM by Tiamatty

We can cross off Mysterio as one of the suspects for "the man in red" following Spidey/Deadpool#2.

That's what he WANTS you to think.

So this was something another person mentioned in regards to Felicia's current heel status and I wanted to get others' opinions on it

I saw that over on CBR and I think it's a reasonable assertion. It did make sense why Sable, out of the blue, suddenly had an attraction to Spider-Man.

I think the Heel turn for Felicia was still a spur of the moment thing though, more of a "I can do this with her instead then."

Wasn't there rumors that Slott decided to do the opposite thing that DC did with their Cat(Catwoman was a good mob boss who still supported the Batfamily and even had one of the girls as a apprentice for a time while dealing with her family)?

Didn't know about that. With Selina what's helped is that her becoming a crime boss was very much her own story whereas with Felicia it was just to give Peter more stuff to deal with from Superior.

I do wonder how Silver's heel turn, if that was what they were planning, would have worked out> Much as I hate what Felicia's become now, I don't think crime boss would have fit the character well. Though she was Silvermane's daughter and successor in the Spectacular Spider-Man show. And even the Word of God says she would have become a hero eventually.

I'm not sure Sable's attraction to Spider-Man was that out of the blue. There was a What If where they ended up married. So I think there was always a little bit of an attraction there.

And I don't think Slott was going to have Sable turn evil. It makes no more sense for her than for Felicia.

If I recall, that What If only had them getting married after the deaths of Foreigner and Black Cat, their respective lovers, had them depressed.

Even then, that's the only story in which they've expressed any kind of attraction to each other.

Even Newspaperland Jonah's had it up to here with Namor...even turning down photos of Peter's battle

edited 15th Feb '16 1:06:56 AM by Zarius

So checking out the May Solicits for Web Warriors apparently there's going to be a casualty in this current story arc and Billy is not on May's cover.

I guess on the brighter side, those worried about Anya can finally be at eased.

I'd actually been thinking Billy might sacrifice himself to save the others. The first issue had Noir talk about Billy spending most of his time alone, making it clear he had survivor's guilt and a ton of angst. The second issue had him taking a hit for Anya. So he's got some real issues. His arc could really only go two ways: Getting over his survivor's guilt, or jumping further into it and giving his life to save someone else. I had initially suspected it would be the former, but I was starting to wonder if it might be the latter.

I was never really worried that Anya would die; it would run counter to Billy's own logical character arc. When a character has some serious survivor's guilt, you don't kill someone else close to them. Especially in a book like Web Warriors, which is a fairly traditional superhero comic.

No, my concern was that Anya would just not matter in the book. If Billy dies, then hopefully, that means Anya steps up as a leader, which would give her a more prominent role in the book. It would also give her more interactions with the rest of the team; so far, she hasn't really been seen talking to anyone other than Karn (and Billy, via the radio), which gives her an outsider role that she shouldn't have.

Actually, I wish we'd get some interactions between Anya and Pavitr. I just feel like those two would get along really well.

Well it says "causalities" so I'm a bit worried Mayday or Spider-Ben might not make it...I think they'll want to kill off someone from MC 2 just to make you worry about the rest of 'em, and given Marvel gave the marriage the boot in it's 20th year, they could do the same to Mayday in her 20th (yeah, I know publishing wise her 20th is 2018, but the character was born/"miscarried"/abducted at the end of 1996)

Over in newspaperland, Peter took a photo of Bellman, but doesn't want to share it with Jonah as it would mean bringing up her family's connection to Namor and he wants to spare her the harassment from the press. Once again Peter displays his great sense of responsibility

edited 17th Feb '16 2:04:08 AM by Zarius

Mayday is a definite possibility, as well. She's been a major character in this arc, as the friend who's two days away from retiring. I don't think she'll die, but I can't really elucidate a reason why.

She and Billy are definitely the two at greatest risk, both because they're not on the cover for #6, and from a narrative standpoint.

I shall commence preparations to flip my shit if Mayday dies

ASM#8: Nice of you to give your would-be assailant another chance Pete. At least Cloak and Dagger turned face again

So Web Warriors#4 ended with a special notice for fans asking who they want to see more of in the concluding chapter of Electroverse, and also said that not every Spider will make it back. I'm definitely worried about Mayday now

edited 19th Feb '16 12:56:41 PM by Zarius

Nice compliment Peter gave his wife in the papers today, she certainly knows how to command attention.

So I guess Felicia fans should be grateful she did not have to die. I would rather her remain a heel crime lord than dead.

I was salivating at the idea of Felicia working with Venom and Peter in the original plans for Ends of the Earth at the time..two people she's had a strong romantic connection with. I've since wound up placing a version of that story into some headcanon take on MC 2 which explains how Felicia wound up reconnecting and ultimately marrying Flash.

edited 19th Feb '16 1:36:52 PM by Zarius

In the dailies, Peter's even acknowledging how useless he was in this storyline, crediting Bellman and MJ with all the hard work while he spat out water. MJ, being ever supportful, points out Peter did his best to stop Namor advancing on the city long enough for any of that to be possible, so he achieved some good. Nice of the strip's writers to comment a bit on the criticisms of the story (they did the same thing with answering where the Avengers were)