Yo BNDcakes

Dear dude who did the latest Spiderman.

I've been told you're an ass munch.

I've been told you set up a scenario where despite CW, despite all that hot ass mess, despite having the Avengers, Fantastic Four, X-men, X-Force*, Sentinel Squad, Spider Squad and S.H.E.I.L.D at the finger tips of law enforcement in NYC - hell roaming around looking for unregistereds....

The NYPD don't need no stinking super heroes, cause they've got experience dealing with weird shit.

Uhm? Kind of like maybe a group of superhero youngsters had experience dealing with bad guys - until one of them blew himself up. WITH A SCHOOL?!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA - Oh MARVEL

*wipes tears of mirth*

It's like watching primates fling shit at the zoo. Except ya'll seem to enjoy having poo facials too.

So yeah, new guy? I still have a question for your royal ass munchedness.

Did you ever read a Spiderman comic ever? Watch an animated series? The movies?

Or is your plot an executive directive? (Cause it sure does stink like one)

ETA: Also a train and two buses? Have you been to NYC? Also? A directly from 'above' shot? Also Spiderman holding a camera? Forget my prior question. I don't think you partake of much super hero stuff.

ETA2: * So anyone think the next x-mansion will be wisely underground?

This Just In! Joe Q's An Asshole

I haven't finished reading the article, , part 4 of 5 over at CBR, but Joe Q just compared MJ's ooc jumping to make a deal with the devil, to his mother and breast cancer.

Yes, he compared his mother hiding the fact that she had breast cancer, in order not to stop her husband from buying a family home (which undoubtedly helped keep the family together after her death) to MJ's choice.

Can someone clear up for me whether or not MJ knew she was pregnant? And she couldn't just be expecting to have a fairly good idea - cause morning sickness people?

Can someone clear up for me if Joe Q just said that MJ gave up her unborn child in order to keep her man, Peter Parker, happy and that it was as dramatic as a woman hiding breast cancer?

And they say comic book fans have no scope in reality.

In Other News:

Interviewer: I think, for me, outside of the final moments between MJ and Peter, the biggest emotional impact in the story had to be the moment we discovered the little girl in the story would have been MJ & Peter’s daughter, had they remained together. Any chance this will be touched upon again?

Joe Q: As of this moment, we don’t plan on ever going back to it again. The little girl was again a peek at what Spider-Man books would have been like if we allowed him to continue along the path of growing as if he were a real person. While it’s fun in theory and cool stuff to play with within books that are out of current continuity or in another universe, it’s counterintuitive to what we want our Spider-Man books to be.

And I thought DC had burned me in ways I couldn't begin to express.

Ok, I will admit it. I am The Big Two's abused wife. I keep looking and hoping for a change and just dealing with the fists to my metaphorical face. (Yeah, I say boobies and porn-face, refrigerators and recorded brutal beatings count as fists)

I admit this because I was told last year to look to the indies, and I bristled and I snarled and I spit and hissed. But I can no longer see my hoping as sane. (Sorry I was so pigheaded) Yes, I believe progress is slow and yes I believe blogging and talking and acting and asking questions lays the foundation for the next generation. But how old is Joe Q? Forty something, right? He's got a good twenty years left in comics, let's say. And then there's the men he's directly groomed who have another thirty years for some of them forty years...

Maybe I'm just depressed and thinking of the metapho,r of the abused wife saving up money so the kids can run away to a college out of state, is simply making me darker and more depressed.

Do note I'm not just thinking women in Superhero comics (semi specifically the big Two). I'm thinking lesbians, and people of color and religions other than some general Christianity.

Ok, I need to go read something good, cause damn it, I refuse it to be a white man's fan boy world and me just living in it.

Hi, my name's Delirium, I believe in hope.

(ETA for Mallet: White man fan boy is used as a generic villain phrase to denote someone clueless about their privilege and adamant about comics being a certain way vs having good stories that everyone can enjoy. Your villainy's unique, honey.)

Mephisto's Watching

I just caught two scans amongst the blogsphere going WTF Deal With the Devil?! And I find myelf wondering... Is the revived Harry Osborne really Mephisto in disguise?

Also that interaction between May and Peter - Did he just call his 70something Aunt cute? And kiss her over the shoulder? Is there going to be some weird incestuous thing where Peter keeps responding to May like she's MJ?

If Peter suddenly starts downloading porn with redheads and wanking furiously, maybe the whole storyline will make more sense? Maybe the marriage dissolution ret-con will really be about Peter's Soul.

All that'd be needed next is for May to be a closet painkiller addict (she is old and somewhat fragile).

Everybody fall into vice Dance Now!

ETA: This is gold. Comic Editors are nothing but politicians trying to play all sides down the middle. I still think Aunt May the drug fiend, and Peter Parker the Porno Poker are better ideas though.

oh comic world

Come home from holiday visiting and get told that it's official - Spiderman has been Un-Married and probably Un-Teachered and Un-Fired from the Bugle.

I hadn't known it was more than one thing wherein there'd be a rollback. It made my first thought something along the lines of: Why are the Execs at Marvel, insisting that lesiure suits with wide lapels and seafoam green are oh so cool? Why are they do determined that everything must be as it was when they were growing up? Can't they see they've become old men stuck in a time warp?

Apparently not.

It's sad. It was so cool that Peter Parker grew up with me.

First off I have to admit to loving the Spiderman Live Action TV Series. And after that, I followed his cartoon adventures - Spiderman & Friends with Iceman and Firestar, and the 90's series and the one where he was dealing with the High Evolutionary (that's one of my favs) and I squeed with joy at the New Animated Series, the cgi one.

Still, once I got past the wtf, with the clones and the dreams and the space opera / horror adventures, it WAS pretty damn cool that Spidey was growing up. Same snark, same quips, bigger support base, different problems. Spiderman as a teacher in the NYC school system? That seemed just perfect.

And now...

I guess that's why I couldn't get into Ultimate Spiderman no matter how many recs it got given. I've seen/heard/done the Spidey in school, Spidey with girl problems, Spidey trying to figure out up from down.

(Why wasn't Ultimate enough? He's brand new, looking at things differently etc...)

Hmm, maybe every year is a bad year to get back into comics.

And now I'm having what feels like blasephemous thoughts concerning the fact that comics don't seem to want to grow.