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Memorable Moments In Comics: Spiderman Body Slamming Dr. Doom

Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Spiderman Body Slamming Doom

Spiderman Body Slamming Doom

Rarely do we ever get to see Doom man-handled in such a manner by someone like good ol’ Spidey. It’s truly refreshing and even though Spidey, inevitably, ends up running for his very life, he still got one good shot off.

The story starts off with the Black Fox, a notorious European jewel thief, (Imagine Colonel Sanders dressed in tights and leather jacket) selling a huge green emerald he stole from the Monaco Museum., which had a special display of heirlooms borrowed from the royal families of Europe.

What the old Fox doesn’t know is that the green monster gem is called the Dragon’s Egg and belonged to “the most powerful sorceress and most wonderful woman, this planet has ever known.” … which just so happens to be Dr. Doom’s mother.

Holy Christ!” is right.

Black Fox Cornered

Black Fox Cornered

After fencing the dragon’s Egg, Fox steals The Trask Diamond, foils Spidey and gets away, or so he thinks as Doom’s men are closing in on him.  As usual, Spidey leaves his hot supermodel wife, MJ, alone in their apartment (wearing a silky little slinky thing… a teddy or cami or one of any number of things that women wear at night that guys like but have no idea what their called) while he goes looking for the Black Fox, which just so happens to have a limousine, with diplomatic plates, pursuing him as well.

Spidey catches up to Fox (at a deserted bankrupt resort) trying to sell the Trask Diamond to a Japanese “businessman” with armed guards. After foiling the deal, beating up the guards and loosing a briefcase full of cash into the air, Spidey corners Fox in an empty swimming pool. At the exact same time Doom does.

Doom moves in for the kill. Spidey Thwips a line to Doom’s arm to slow him down and Doom responds with a power blast making reinforcing Peter’s regret at starting a scrap with Doom.

Spidey Regrets His TWIP

Spidey Regrets His TWIP

Fox makes a run for it, only to be blocked by boulders that appear out of apparently nowhere, but were really from Doom’s Molecular expander (don’t ask).  The Fox is cornered once again, this time on his knees since he has to explain that he’s already sold the Dragon’s Egg.  Doom threatens Fox one last time,

“For your sake old man, I hope you’re lying! for i’ll have that Jewel… or your heart in its stead!”

Spidey Pancakes Doom SPLAK!

Spidey Pancakes Doom SPLAK!

Doom Attacks Back

Doom Attacks Back

And this is right where Spidey escalates the entire farce to the Memorable Moment where he grabs Doom, presumably by his cloak, and flings him across the empty pool into it’s concrete wall.

A hilariously, ungraceful handling of the Latvarian tyrant. The proverbial s*** is going to hit the fan.

Spidey tries to put some distance between him and Doom, but to no avail. Doom opens fire with a fist full of high powered finger tip lasers.

Ouch!

Ouch!

Doom aims his finger laser at Fox, preparing to cut his legs out from under him, (you DO NOT want to cross Doom). Spidey, yet again, intervenes, grabs Doom’s arm, and yet again gets knocked through a wall.

Black Fox escapes while Doom was thrashing Spiderman, which is impressive even to Doom as he thought bubbles, “Gone! And research into his methods indicates  that the Fox is a canny foe, a master of evasion! He’s somehow even jamming my armor’s scanning devices.”

Doom is now pissed. He monologues to Spidey regarding how the Dragon’s Egg ended up in The Black Fox’s hands and how Spidey needs to have his wrist slapped (to a pulp) for interfering and moves in for the kill. Casually slapping away a cutting board thrown at him by Spidey (not the flat kind you use to cut your onions on but the big island kind that rich folk have in their big kitchens that weigh a ton.) Doom then fires a power blast at Peter, who was unfortunately crouching right in front of a gas stove.

The entire kitchen explodes with a terrific “BWA-OOOOM!

BRA-OOOOM!

BRA-OOOOM!

Spidey’s ready to crumble. If his suit is indicative of his physical state, he’s a devastated mess barely able to stay inches away from death by Doom’s hand. Which speaks volumes of Doom’s prowess since Spidey is no slacker … but notice the tuft of hair spurting comically out of his suit.

one more bout through the gym room where Spidey is still running but luckily manages to bring down a rack of heavy barbells atop Doom who is REALLY starting to get pissed! He fires off on more power blast and Spidey takes off running for his life. He’s had enough, game over.

But it’s not game over. Doom can fly and corners Spidey. They have some words and Spidey manages to reason with Doom, asking for 24 hours to get the diamond himself. We pan back to Fox, the next day, who’s just found out the fence he sold the Dragon’s Egg to has just fenced it to another person.

Fox freaks! And offers him everything for the name of the client who bought the emerald. In the mean time, Peter has some sort of concussion causing him to have delusional, yet revelatory, conversations with his deceased Uncle Ben, right before passing out.

That night Fox is on the path to get the emerald back, with Spidey glued to his tail. The buyer is “Carpathian.” (which, on a side note, and coincidentally is the name of a mountainous region in Eastern Europe that is directly related to a fictional race called the Carpathians that drink blood and are related to Dracula some how. I’m reading a book called The historian right now and it just so happens to mention the Carpathians.)

To make a long story short Carpathian wants to use the Dragon’s Egg to power a device that will bring back a swarm of bugs to Earth to kill millions of people.  Fox and Spidey bust in, get in a fight, bullets fly, the device is activated, the swarm is starting to materialize, all hell is breaking loose, and then a wall explodes, revealing Doom, looking for mamma’s egg. ‘

Spidey saves the day, grabs the egg, hands it back to Doom, who spares Fox’s life and Spidey leads Fox to jail.

David Michelinie was the writer, Erik Larsen the penciler.  This is an enjoyable book, a fun read. I think if you’re a fan of Spidey, Doom or even MJ’s undies, you won’t go wrong with grabbing this one for your collection.

Spider-Man Vs. Doctor Doom Cover

Spider-Man Vs. Doctor Doom Cover

Memorable Moments In Comics: Death Of Gwen Stacy

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Death of Gwen Stacy

Death of Gwen Stacy

The scene is atop the George Washington Bridge. The Green Goblin has kidnapped Gwen and left a pumpkin bomb, or “one of Goblin’s Lanterns,” atop Gwen’s handbag as a calling card for Spidey to find in his apartment.

Death Of Gwen

Death Of Gwen

The stage is set, players on their marks, and Gobbie opens up:

“Spider-Man! Or should I say– Mister Parker? I have your WOMAN up here, my friend– I trust you understand what that means? …. Your presence in this world has been a source of constant Agony to me. I wish you to leave it– Permanently. Or else… Gwen Stacy Dies!”

The Green Goblin’s threat is critical to what happens next. There’s been a lot of conjecture regarding Stacy’s death; did Spidey really kill her or was she already dead by the hands of the Goblin.  Either Green Goblin’s is threatening with the truth, and Gwen is alive, or he’s lying and Gwen is already dead.  But, as we all know supervillain types are consistent in at least one area; they simply do not go through all of their insane efforts and plot twists simply to have only an empty threat to throw at the hero.

No, they have plot twists and traps, and yes plenty of lies, but the lies are there to lead the hero further into the trap. In this scenario, Spidey is already at the climax of the story, he is confronting the villain, right where Goblin wants him. Goblin wants the throw down, so he isn’t lying because it simply doesn’t help him move the plot along. It doesn’t help his cause to have Stacy already dead.

Death Of Gwen Stacy - Drugs

Death Of Gwen Stacy - Drugs

Why is this story so successful? It’s an awesome story for two reasons; 1) the prelude leading up to this point is socially relevant and mirrors the times with continual references of drug use, and 2) this one scene , of Gwen dying, is the nail in the coffin for Peter’s guilt. Spiderman needs Peter to wallow in pain, it’s what pushes Spiderman to continue doing the right thing, for we all know, “With great power comes the fact that if you sit on your ass or think of yourself for just one second, someone you love will die and it’s all your fault, you Shmuck!”

Early in the story Spiderman follows some cops to a scene where a black kid, “stoned right out of his mind,” is about to jump off a building.  Spidey saves the kid, hand him to the cops and for once, actually manages to show up on time for one of MJ’s Off-Broadway gig.

Drugs (pills),keep popping (no pun intended) up in the story as Harry continues to take LSD to help him through his anxiety over the whole MJ fawning over Peter thing that’s going on.  Although it’s pathetic watching Harry wallow in his drug induced jealousy, it’s nice to see Peter smack around a cheesy looking drug dealer and his two thugs while out of costume.

Fight With Dealers 1

Fight With Dealers 1

Fight With Dealers 2

Fight With Dealers 2

Gwen’s death set a new tone in comics where previously it would have been unthinkable to kill off such an important character, the hero’s girlfriend, but Stan took comic readers into a more mature story setting where people die and stay dead for good, leaving a wake of pain and misery in their passing. This one story is part of the transition from the Silver Age of comics to the Bronze age.

Stan Lee and Gerry Conway were the writers on board for this story line while John Romita Sr. and Gil kane did the art, which is fantastic by the way.   What’s nicely done here is how they were able to get to the poignant truth good job of naturally entwining a relevant message regarding drugs not being just a ghetto problem, into a Spidey story without getting all preachy like all of those those  socially relevant comics are put out by special interest groups to “stop smoking” or “just say no to drugs,” or “don’t talk to strangers,” or “Jesus Loves You,” or “Stop! Drop! Roll!”

Even though Norman isn’t on drugs, his transformation into the Green Goblin is what causes him to leave his troubled reality behind. Where LSD is Harry’s addiction, the Goblin is Norman’s drug of choice.  The Goblin is powerful, Norman is weak, the Goblin can fly and is free to kill, while Norman’s stock is plummeting and his son has entered a drug induced schizophrenia.

And when the Goblin bubbles to the surface, yet again, hell bent on killing Parker, it is Gwen Stacy he finds in Peter and Harry’s apartment, taking us back to the kidnapping scene again. The scene is atop the George Washington Bridge. The Green Goblin has kidnapped Gwen and left a pumpkin bomb, or “one of Goblin’s Lanterns,” atop Gwen’s handbag as a calling card for Spidey to find.

Spidey catches up to the Goblin and gets one good punch in, forcing the Goblin to plummet to the river below while he swings to where Gwen is at, atop a pillar on the bridge.  But Osborn is too quick, he reunites with his glider, flies up to Gwen just as Spidey reaches her, and knock’s her off the pillar top.

Spiderman manages to shoot off a line of webbing, hoping to “stop her fall before she hits the water!” which he manages to do, but if you look closely you can see the little “snap” right behind her neck.  This is where Gwen dies. Spiderman accidentally broke Gwen’s neck while trying to save her.

spider-man_death-of-gwen-stacy-snap

But here’s the problem. It would have been fine if Stan left it at that. But he didn’t. the next words spoken by the Goblin are criticle:

Romantic IDIOT! she was dead before your webbing reached her! A fall from that height would kill anyone—- before they struck the ground!

Romantic Idiot

Romantic Idiot

Now, again, a critical moment for this could be interpreted a couple of different ways. It could mean that Gwen was actually dead by the hands of the Goblin, as seen by the first part of the statement, “she was dead before your webbing reached her!” But, Gobbie’s second sentence invalidates it by having Gwen’s death contingent on the height of the fall, “A fall from that height would kill anyone—- before they struck the ground!

I happen to think that Stan made a mistake. I think he was under the impression that a fall from that height would kill a person through.. ohhh… I don’t know… some misconceived notion of asphyxiation while falling? It’s the only thing that can account for both sentences because they simply just do not add up. And besides, a note on the letters page of The Amazing Spider-Man #125 states: “It saddens us to say that the whiplash effect she underwent when Spidey’s webbing stopped her so suddenly was, in fact, what killed her.”

Kill You Goblin!

Kill You Goblin!

And, for the first time in comics, the roles are reversed. Normally we see the supervillain attempt to do “X,” a crime of some sort, his plans are unfortunately thwarted by the hero, the villain has something bad happen to him because of his foiled attempt at doing X, like going to prison, so the villain then blames (and curses) the hero while shaking fist in air.  But, this time we see the hero cursing the villain for his own actions. “You killed the woman I love! And for that, you’re going to die!”And it’s Spidey who is left shaking his fist in the air.

Goblin Dead

Goblin Dead

The one last thing that Stan got right was that Spiderman did have his vengeance. Norman does die, just like you saw in the movie, by his own hands impaled on the end of his damaged glider . As a comic reader, it gets to be quite the cliche to see contrived conflict where the villain, eg. the Joker, continue to commit crime after crime only to never be properly punished for his crimes. And deep down, we want to see some form of justice, some sort of balancing of the scales, some form of comic karma or tit-for-tat, for god’s sake, a little bit of what our parents always taught us, “what goes around comes around” in the superhero universe. Stan delivers.

Gwen is dead, but we saw justice as Norman got himself crucified on the end of his glider, so Peter is left to go on living with the guilt, a husk of a man… but there is more? With each death there is a new birth; we see MJ stepping up to the plate.

Throughout the whole story line she’s been flirting ruthlessly with Peter, and in the end he gives her her due tongue thrashing… but she doesn’t walk. As Peter crumples and goes fetal in pain, Mary Jane slowly and consciously closes the door, with her still in the room, possibly making this the first real commitment in her life to somebody other than herself. She’s choosing to be with Peter, to help fill that void that, they both feel. Yes, Tiger did hit the jackpot.

Enter MJ

Enter MJ

The entire story is enough to make you cry.

Featuring the talents of Stan Lee, Gerry Conway, John Romita Sr. and Gil Kane.

Spider-Man Reboot - New Writer On Deck

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
Spider-Man

Spider-Man

We mentioned before that Dunst and Toby were getting booted, along with Sam Raimi, and that the Spidey franchise was getting rebooted. Well, it looks like Marvel and Sony got themselves a new (old) writer!

Alvin Sargent, screen writer for the original Spider-Man movie series, has signed on to ruin what the reboot was designed to save in the first place.  Why do I say that? … cause he’s one of the same friggin’ writers who ruined the initial Spider-Man movies in the first place!! That’s why.  Come on people. It doesn’t take much to realize that the written story is what makes the movie, given that you have decent talent to act the parts, but no amount of great acting will save a film from ruin if the writing just sucks Mcnuggets!

Word on the street is that it will be “more emotionally anchored and realistic than the previous movies.” …. What in the HAIL does that mean? … More emotionally anchored? Does that mean we won’t see emo-Peter dancing in bars? Or crying? (please god NO!).

More realistic? … Look, there’s two types of reality in superhero movies; the reality that allows us to suspend our disbelief, like a man flying or climbing walls or actually doing something to stop criminals, and then there’s the stupid reality that stupid writers dream up that would never work in real life, like… Superman fighting a radioactive bad guy on the moon, or Richard Prior going to computer night school and hacking into anything with a keyboard, or even something closer to home, like a guy in face paint forcing the mayor to lock down the city so nobody leaves or enters… for their own safety. (Gasp, did I just criticize Heath Ledger and the Dark Knight? Sacrilege!)

So, god-only-knows what “emotionally anchored” and “realistic” means with these guys.  This all came from the Hollywood Reporter by the way.  They also said that, “Peter Parker will be a 17-year-old high school kid struggling with shifting hormones and an outsider status.” Ok, aside from the shifting hormones, the “outsider status” is right on point, with respect to the original story.  You can read (and then buy) the digital comic here at Marvel if you’re interested in catching a glimpse of history.  Just click on the “play” button.

So, sure Sargent has a writing resume a mile long.  So what!  Did that stop George Lucas or Steven Spielberg from ruining my life? Look, if he was part of the problem back then, I highly doubt that he’ll be rebooting the franchise to a great start.  But, I hope I’m wrong.  Also, Marc Webb — the director of “(500) Days of Summer” — is supposed to be directing, but still no word on who’s playing emo Peter.

… and oh! It’s going to be made in 3D.  Mother F#@!$##$@^.  We went to go see Clash of the Titans couple weeks ago.  The ticket guy said, “That’ll be $27 dollars.”  I said, “No, only two tickets… two!”  He responded, “…. uh huh… $27 dollars.”  Forgetting that I had mastered basic subtraction, addition and even division back in Mrs. Morrison’s 5th grade class a bajillion years ago, I quickly asked, “…er… how much is each ticket?”  He looks at the screen and says, “$13.50.”  My only appropriate response was to put my card back in my wallet, which went back in my pants, and said, “We’re not paying that.”  My wife and I then went to rent Inglorious Bastards and something else that I don’t recall, .. think it was foreign.  So, No, I won’t be paying $13.50 for a 3D movie when a perfectly good 2D movie was perfectly good 6 months ago.  It was even perfectly good for Avatar.

Stupid 3D!

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Director Marc Webb (500) Days of Summer To Direct Spider-Man Franchise

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
(500) Days of Summer Director Takes On Spider-Man Fanchise

(500) Days of Summer Director Takes On Spider-Man Fanchise

The next chapter in the Spider-Man franchise will be directed by Marc Webb, the director of the Golden Globe nominated Best Picture (500) Days of Summer.  Teen Spidey should hit theaters summer 2012.

Written by James Vanderbilt, Webb will work closely with producers Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin in developing the project, which will begin production later this year.

Amy Pascal, co-chairman of  Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Matt Tolmach, president of Columbia Pictures, said about the next Spider-Man movie,

“At its core, Spider-Man is a small, intimate human story about an everyday teenager that takes place in an epic super-human world. The key for us as we sought a new director was to identify filmmakers who could give sharp focus to Peter Parker’s life. We wanted someone who could capture the awe of being in Peter’s shoes so the audience could experience his sense of discovery while giving real heart to the emotion, anxiety, and recklessness of that age and coupling all of that with the adrenaline of Spider-Man’s adventure. We believe Marc Webb is the perfect choice to bring us on that journey.”

The probably had to call up Stan The Man Lee to get a quote from him before they did the press release.  Come on!… We don’t need no Steengkeen Peter Parker!  We want to see Spidey knock bad guys’ heads, rip steel doors off their hinges, dodge bullets and save the day!

Parker can barely pay his bills on time, is chronically late for everything and in the classic series just paints himself to be a constant shmuck!  We got enough of that in our real life, we want some action, some real hero doing super things in cool outfits with funky gadgets.  If we wanted to see a born-again-loser all we’d have to do is look in the mirror.

Peter doesn’t give us hope.  Spidey gives us hope.  You’re never going to hear mom say, “Jimmeeee! Eat your Wheaties so you’ll be big and strong like Peter Parker!”  Come on! Even Bruce Wayne has his bajillions of dollars, incredible good looks, body of an Olympian and brain of the best detective in the world.  Bruce Rocks! … I don’t wanna see Peter’s story.. I want what they gave us in Spider-Man II with the run-away train.  Now THAT was action. … I and every other guy in the theater was just-that-close to tears when Spidey passed out and the passengers …. … the passengers they… *choked up*… passed him… *swallow*… over their heads and …. excuse me, *leaves room, blows nose, pulls collar*…. and gently laid him down on the rail floor… .. *sniff*.  God I’m such a puss!  That stupid scene gets me every time.

No more Peter emptying the trash talking to MJ. No more… Peter trying to pay Aunt May’s bills!  Or running late to the play only to be stopped by Ash (Bruce Campbell).  Come ON! I didn’t pay freakin’ $10 bucks to see that.  Even the pizza scene, where he rescued the little brat, was better than that.  No.  The best was when Spidey (not Peter) was fighting Doc Ock on the clock tower and finally rescued Aunt May, then all the chicks come running up, “Rescue ME! Rescue ME!”… stupid chicks.

The new Spider-Man movie will be written by James Vanderbilt.  Webb will work closely with the producers Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin in developing the project.  Arad and Ziskin spoke about the movie,

“Over the years, the Spider-Man comics have been told with bold and creative new writers and artists who have blah blah blah audiences see Peter Parker. Marc Webb will do for the new direction of the films what so many visionary storytellers blah blah blah with the comic books blah blah blah blah.”

Webb said,

“This is a dream come true and I couldn’t be more aware of the challenge, responsibility, or opportunity. Sam Raimi’s virtuoso rendering of Spider-Man is a humbling precedent to follow and build upon. The first three films are beloved for good reason. But I think the Spider-Man mythology transcends not only generations but directors as well. I am signing on not to ‘take over’ from Sam. That would be impossible. Not to mention arrogant. I’m here because there’s an opportunity for ideas, stories, and histories that will add a new dimension, canvas, and creative voice to Spider-Man.”

Just don’t suck Marc! Stan The Man Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man, added,

“I’m excited that Sony has chosen a director with a real penchant and understanding for the character. This is a brave, bold direction for the franchise, and I can’t wait to see what Marc comes up with next.”

We love you Stan.  If you’re concerned about where this might be heading… go see (500) Days of Summer.  It’s very well done.  Marc did a great job on it.  He won acclaim with his film debut (500) Days of Summer and has several MTV VMAs including 2009’s Best Director award for Green Day’s “21 Guns,” 2006 Best Rock Video for AFI’s “Miss Murder,” and Best Group Video for The All-American Rejects’ “Move Along.” The Music Video Production Association honored him in 2006 as the Director of the Year for his work with Weezer, AAR, and My Chemical Romance.

In addition to two Golden Globe nominations, Marc’s first feature film, (500) Days of Summer, has been nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Feature. Webb was also awarded the Spotlight Award, which honors outstanding directorial debuts, by the National Board of Review.

So, what we’re seeing here is some new young blood.  God let’s hope it’s better than some of the sappy stuff they put on Smallville.  Please don’t F this up Marc.

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P.S. … and Marc… you BETTER bring back the mechanical web-shooters!  Drop the 2099 talons! … so help me….

Spider-Man 4, Raimi, Maguire & Dunst Canned … Gwen Stacy Lives!

Thursday, January 14th, 2010
Spider-Man 4 Cancelled, Raimi, Toby and Kirsten gone.

Spider-Man 4 Cancelled, Raimi, Toby and Kirsten gone.

Marvel, Sony and Columbia have decided to kill Spider-Man 4.  The film had originally been scheduled for May of 2011.  Now… pfffft. At first the studio stated that production was “Delayed”. But ultimately, Spider-Man director Sam Raimi has actually been let go. Also gone are,  Tobey Maguire/Peter Parker and girlfriend Kirsten Dunst/Mary Jane.

What seems to be in the forefront minds of studio execs is the axing of over priced actors and staff as well as assimilating a “Smallville” type theme that focuses on Peter Parker in high school. …Just like Clark Kent, but different.   Check out Ultimates Spider-Man comics, to get a good idea of what’s around the corner. It is quite awesome, at least up to issue #100 or so. I think it was Brian Michael Bendis who wrote it. Definitely NOT Smallville-Spidey by any means. Way cooler, edgier. Like way, way cooler-edgy.

Spiderman, MJ and Raimi

Spiderman, MJ and Raimi

Columbia’s deal with Marvel states that Columbia needs to keep “actively developing” Spider-Man films or else Marvel yanks their license and either makes the movie themselves or sells it another party… or simply sits on it just to piss us Spidey fans off.  But DC is the one spider_man_4_the_movienotorious for that more so than Marvel.  Of course, Columbia had a card up their sleeve, just in case the actors were tanked. Call it the, “Just in case the director and all the primary actors of Spider-Man get fired,” plan.  Or the, “Let’s do Spider-Man over again but more cheaper and just like Smallville… but different! Ok!?” plan.

This contingency, or “reboot,” has James Vanderbilt writing the script. A quick jaunt over to IMDb has Vanderbilt already slated for Spidey 5 and 6! Ouch! Talk about fast movers; Toby’s not even done opening his pink slip and eating his Wheaties while ol’ Vanderbilt’s working on a new script with Flash Thompson giving Peter a swirly.

You remember Vanderbilt, don’t you?  He wrote all those movies you never saw, like. … The Losers, Zodiac, The Rundown, Darkness Falls and the one everyone remembers, Goodbye Toby & Kirsten.

The new teenage Spider-Man movie, staring absolutely nobody famous whatsoever, which could be a good thing spiderman-profile[remember Hugh Jackman/Wolverine], is currently looking for a director to fill Raimi’s shoes.  One thing is for sure though, Marvel has a hell of a track record when it comes to reboots not cutting the mustard! Let’s hope ol’ Vandi can do a better job on Spidey than Marvel did with The Hulk the second time around or The Punisher the second time around or The Fantastic Four the second and third time around or even Captain America the second time around. …. Oops, forgot… they didn’t mess that one up again yet.

Through all of this, Raimi could have been a real sphincter, having been let go, but he instead showed the world how a class act gets kicked in the teeth, “While we were looking forward to doing a fourth one together, the studio and Marvel have a unique opportunity to take the franchise in a new direction, and I know they will do a terrific job.” Good form Sam.

So… how does all of these changes affect you and me?  Well, we get more Spidey, which is a good thing, and, Marvel Studios moved the debut of the Thor movie into the recently vacant Spidey 4 slot, which could possibly be a bad thing due to the rushing of the story for the sake of having another superhero movie under their belt.

If only they could put as much love and commitment into honoring the superheroes in their true form as comic geeks come to expect.  In short… “Do your damn job and do it well.” How many of us would like to forget Spider-Man3? Batman Returns? Batman Forever? Batman & Robin? Superman: III? Superman: The Quest for Peace? The Punisher (1989 w/Dolph)? The Punisher (2004 w/Thomas Jane)? The Punisher War Zone? Or Hulk by Ang Lee? I mean, … COME ON! It shouldn’t be that hard to make a movie out of comics.  All the content and history is already done and laid out for you.

Spider-Man Web-Shooters!

Spider-Man Web-Shooters!

All I want is for Marvel to bring back the friggin mechanical web-shooters and drop the stupid spider talons that come out of Parker’s finger tips and toes that allow him to climb walls.  Those were two of the biggest mistakes Raimi ever did, along with putting Maguire and Dunst in for Parker and MJ.  Yeah, they’re great actors, but Toby simply isn’t Peter Parker and Kirsten aint no drop drop drop dead supermodel like MJ is supposed to be!

Gerry Conway, over at Newsarama, said it best, … who’s Gerry Conway? He’s not only known for co-creating The Punisher along with DC’s Firestorm and for scripting the first major, modern-day Marvel/DC crossover, Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man but is most famous for single-handedly killed off Gwen Stacy! during his long run on The Amazing Spider-Man. This guy has balls!

“Well, of course, I hope this time they kill Gwen Stacy.

About the third movie. Never really got behind Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man — he’s a great actor, did a great job with the part, but didn’t have the internal energy that I’ve always associated with Peter Parker. He just didn’t impress me as someone who’d wisecrack in the face of death.

I also was never fond of Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane. Again, a terrific actor, but she didn’t strike me as the right casting for MJ — MJ, in my view, is a woman who’s cursed by the expectations others have for her based on her appearance. She should appear to be a vaguely slutty babe, and whatever one might say about Dunst, wonderful actress that she may be, a babe she’s not.

Both Dunst and Maguire are actors who bring a great deal of internal intelligence to their performances, but not a lot of charisma. I’m not in favor of casting this like a CW show, but it seems to me Peter Parker should be a charismatic character underneath his shy, homebody exterior — that’s the internal energy that bursts out when he’s Spider-Man, that’s what becomes liberated when he puts on t he mask, but it should be apparent, as a potential, even when he’s not in superhero mode.

As for MJ, she should present as a Bad Girl, as misunderstood and underestimated by the world as Peter is. Recasting these actors can only improve the impact of the franchise.

And by all means, they should kill Gwen.”

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