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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
Slott's clearly trying to fix that.
Anyway, Ock is Peter's second most recognizable villain.
He was also dead for a while just like Norman.
One Strip! One Strip!How? Green Goblin has taken long breaks from the Spider-Man universe, such as when he died the first time which lasted quite a long time by comic book standards, and when he became an Avengers villain, and Venom hasn't been in the Spider-Man corner in a long while and has been doing his own thing for year. He's not even a bad guy anymore.
Doc Ock has been getting more stories and focus in the Spider-Man corner of the universe particularly under Dan Slott. Doc Ock had a lot of screen time when the Goblin was dead, and even now in the Wells run, he's been a major villain and lead the Sinister Six while we got lame dad Norman.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Jul 13th 2024 at 12:21:05 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Doc Ock also has had at least 4 comic series devoted to him as well. Two of which lasted at least a year.
Whenever the Green Goblin returns, it's an event, but Doc Ock being the villain of a Spider-Man story is business as usual.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Jul 13th 2024 at 12:22:42 AM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Peter and Miles confront one another, each believing the other to be a robot like Peter's family and Kamala proved to be...Arcade and Mentallo are visited by Hammerhead, an enthusiastic Arcade boasts of how he's tricked the Spider-Men, but Hammerhead asks what'll happen if either one of them wins...and Arcade isn't prepared for that outcome. Hammerhead requests he be 'teed up'
Interview with writer Alex Segura on the latest Spider-Verse event Spider-Society
Edited by Zarius on Jul 13th 2024 at 5:16:46 AM
He was still an antagonist, but boy was he a funny one. My dad said that was his favorite incarnation of Venom XD
The Protomen enhanced my life.![]()
That generally is Venom’s attitude. The game even remembers that Venom is an anti hero when he realizes Spider Man was framed.
Compare that to future video game versions where he progressively gets worse and more evil. I think it started in Ultimate Spider Man where they adapted a Venom who was pretty much a monster that needed to feed.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"That's a weird thing I noticed about media. Is venom is often turned into a pure evil monster while norman becomes more sympathetic. Which is the reverse of their comic characters.
"That's right mortal. By channeling my divine rage into power, I have forged a new instrument in which to destroy you."It helps that adaptations gave the symbiote corruptive qualities so logically it would make Eddie Brock more evil over time.
But when the Symbiote is trying to take over New York by spreading symbiotes, then that's when things are off the rails.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"I kind of like the idea of venom, as a scorned ex girlfriend hell bent of defending people from the evil Spider-Man that wronged her. But the execution of that idea falls flat when venom is in fact a brain eating body horror bonded to a rightfully disgraced journalist. It's almost like this story had no real plan or anything.
To me venom worked best as a villain. The "the lethal protector" thing was just goofy and redundant. Morbius was a good enough "lethal protector" already, even if not actually called that. The Punisher was a good enough one of those too. And Demogoblin. And Silver Sable. I didn't mind the symbiote leaving Eddie Brock for another Spider-Man killing host, but it stuck with Mac Gargan, a loser villain by design, for too long.
As long as Carnage's continued existence is a thing I think Venom kind of works as a hero in that context, that there's another eviler symbiote in the New York area to make venom seem not so bad by comparison, but the existence of Carnage is something I could have done without.
Buldogue's lawyerI decided to read Spider-Man Reign cause if they’re going to make a sequel, I might as well personally look into this memetic train wreck.
I’m pacing myself so I’ve only read the first issue and this can’t be serious. And I mean that literally, this book is playing a silly joke on people taking the dark knight returns for Spider-Man advertising at face value
The first issue starts with a dramatic reading of itsy bitsy spider. Peter putting the mask on for the first time to save Jonah from the consequences of his own actions is preceded by a dramatic reading of hickory dickory doc. Becaus nursery rhymes teach children the world is PAIN.
When Jonah sees Peter he marvels at how shitty he looks because “Didn’t think you could age. Thought you’d be twenty forever.”
Peter gets fired from his florist job for mixing up white and cream flowers. And his internal narration says “No money. No job. No dignity. Just like old times.”
This book is firmly tongue in cheek.
Edited by Bocaj on Jul 14th 2024 at 7:32:36 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersCan do
Further evidence this has to be a joke: when Peter masks up again he automatically starts quipping again but he finds it so cringe that he blames the mask and then disassociates through the rest of the one-sided fight just so he won’t have to hear himself.
Edited by Bocaj on Jul 14th 2024 at 7:40:22 AM
Forever liveblogging the AvengersI still feel bad for Sandman's daughter.
The YMMV.Spider Man Reign page mentions "a lot of readers view the Darker and Edgier elements as absurd to the point of hilarity" but no word on whether it was actually a Stealth Parody or not. The only publication history I can find is that the first issue sold out
, Marvel itself compared it to TDKR, and there was controversy over a nudity scene.
Meanwhile, press for the sequel describes the original as "the landmark, genre-defying SPIDER-MAN: REIGN!" but the solicit for the third issue
is very tongue-in-cheek.
Edited by lalalei2001 on Jul 14th 2024 at 10:55:19 AM
The Protomen enhanced my life.There's individual things I liked about Reign. Sandman's part of the story is especially good, and I've always figured it may have combined with his plot in Raimi's Spider-Man 3, resulting in him having a daughter remaining a part of his character ever since.
But so much of the surrounding stuff drags the good stuff down. Even the most surface level stuff, like how its symbiote plot became a template for basically every symbiote plot that came afterwards, I really dislike.
Edited by KnownUnknown on Jul 15th 2024 at 11:31:52 AM

Except that's not accurate, Otto is nowhere near at the same level of exposure as Venom or even the Green Goblin.
So no, he's not over exposed.