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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
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I think Spider-Man's fight with Titania convinced a lot of writers that a woman couldn't possibly be a threat to Spider-Man physically.
Hahahahahahaha......
As for how Peter would have reacted to that, probably the same way he reacted to Eddie's motivation. Both are equally petty IMO and Spider-Man had done nothing directly besides fight crime in their general area.
Incidentally, I think the original new host for Venom inspired She-Venom but not sure about that one.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Mar 2nd 2023 at 7:08:57 PM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
I think he'd be a bit more sympathetic and try to talk her down at least.
She's going after the wrong person, but I don't think Peter would be unfeeling about someone losing a child.
One Strip! One Strip!Its a scary thought but Venom prolly would have gotten even more...... art if he was mainly a woman instead
Especially since he already has a popular foe-yay dynamic with S Pdiey.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."RE: Preview of ASM#21
Okay, I don't want to get my hopes up, but it's looking like we might actually be getting somewhere.
MJ went from telling Peter not to call her anymore to her dialing him up, so already that's serious business mode. And Paul and MJ act as through they had a plan for this. What? We wouldn't happen to know anyone with crazy big hair and a crazy big beard and red eyes, right? It's probably not Ben Reilly because he already caused trouble not long ago. Definitely not Morlun because Morlun is jacked up and is in Slott's Spidey book. What if it's the guy that met Peter and MJ at the very end of Spider-Man Beyond? That guy was an anomaly.
Thinking it over, the reveal that the Inheritors are Leech Totems make some interesting parallels with the Poisons from the Venomverse arcs.
Like, Venomverse was already trying to imitate the Spiderverse. The Poisons' backstory was that they were on the bottom of the food chain in their universe, until they discovered they could parasitize symbiotes. At that point they became universal then multiversal threats. But they would always just be bullies who got too much power.
The Inheritors are now like that. They are parasites who grew to greatness by also feeding off superior beings.
I wonder if that comparison was intentional.
#IceBearForPresidentThe hype builds from Slott for next month's Spider-Man
What now know
-This mystery cover is by Humburto Ramos
-It's a cover Slott is sure he will be signing copies of for the rest of his life
-It's described as the [redacted] [redacted] of [redacted]
I do kinda feel like if Venom was seen as mainly female, there definitely would be lot of specific kind of art in internet
Anyway, last time I checked thread it was 2020 and it was one more day discussion once again. I'm curious of what has changed in three years since now I hear something about Paul?
If it helps, we don't know what Paul's deal is either. He's part of the year-long mystery that's impacted the book and we're only now just getting to the bottom of things, this coming week begins the big reveals.
All we know is Paul is Mary Jane's new partner and helping her raise kids, Peter is heartbroken over it and is rebounding with Black Cat. Peter did something six months to a year ago that alienated him from everyone.
The current book is written by Zeb Wells with John Romita Jr back on art, Dan Slott is working on a separate Spider-Man title with Mark Bagley
Edited by Zarius on Mar 5th 2023 at 12:01:05 PM
x5: Geez, Slott is really confident about this one. He even says
this will impact the Spidey side of the Marvel Universe regardless of what happens in Zeb Wells' ASM run.
(*glances to the other side and spots the Bleeding Cool team doing some conspicuous whistling.*)
Yeah, that tweet was directed at BC more than anyone else, wasn't it?
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RE: Paul:
So far, all we know about Paul (at least until the truth bombs drop later this week) is that he wears glasses, his name might be a reference to the biblical quote about "robbing Peter to pay Paul", he apparently has some grudge over Peter, but was willing to pay the latter's rent, he can get bossy with MJ if the Hellfire Gala stuff gives us anything to go on, he's absolutely useless when it comes to fighting, and now he and MJ apparently have some plan for when the "Scribble Man" would appear again. Anything beyond that is an obscenely big question mark.
For all we know, his whole deal could be that he's a clone or an avatar for Mephisto or a henchman for Mysterio made solely to spite Peter for some mean-spirited reason, or that his glasses are fake.
Oh, I have that one, it's part of my Hobgoblin collection.
And it's in that scene where Harry and Peter are in the century club, and Peter notices Kingpin having a meal.
Harry is the one who identifies him as Wilson Fisk but doesn't know him as Kingpin.
Man, silver age stuff has aged weirdly with Kingpin. Shouldn't Jameson be pissed about how Wilson Fisk, who he should know personally since they are at the same club, tried to have him killed? Guess that would distract him from bashing Spider-Man.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"
Yeah, Kingpin is weird for a few reasons. Feels like almost anything from before Miller and Stern touched him is straight-up ignored, and that this started very early.
And even then, it's funny to me that the Kingpin was just the latest in a line of "mob boss taking over the underworld" characters, and it feels like he stuck around just because Ditko treated those characters as disposable but Stan Lee would default to using the same character instead of coming up with a new one. And because John Romita's character design was pretty great.

Ooof.
Yeah. I knew there was some sexism involved in why she was rejected.
Ouch. I wonder how they would have had Peter deal with that? Like, it's really more the taxi drivers fault but still.
One Strip! One Strip!