Yet another member of HEAT.
:rolleyes:
Spider-Man question here:
Did they ever explain what Spider-Man does in the winter? I live in New York and I can assure you it gets COLD here in winter. Especially swinging at such high altitudes, you’d think he’d catch his death of cold. Does he have a winter costume his Aunt makes him wear? Does his web fluid ever freeze? I can only remember one comic where he had to deal with snow, and it wasn’t even real. It was the doing of Mysterio.
Believe it or not, this has actually been bothering me for a long time.
Here’s something I’ve been wondering ever since I saw the movie version of Spider-Man. In the scene where Flash is punching at him, it looks like he’s moving incredibly fast. Then they show it as it seems to Peter, and he’s moving his head and everything is going so slowly and he’s thinking, “Hmmm…” Is it just his reflexes that are really fast, or is he just incredibly fast no matter what? And if so, does that mean that his brain is operating at hyper speeds too? Is he a super computer in human guise?
“He is The One.”
He gets colds: really. It was pretty funny/patheic. There was one storyline where he was trying to fight um…Doc Ock with the world’s worst cold.
He’s also worn long-johns under his costume.
Fenris
Oh man, I don’t even want to think about trying to blow your nose with that mask on. That must be why Mark Bagely drew him with “nostrils” on his mask.
In an issue of the Avengers, Wonderman explains that to him the world is moving in slow-motion.
Re-Hal
I know he’s the new Spectre.
Has anyone actually read the new series?
Is it awful? Surprisingly good? Pointless?
Spider-Man is much faster than the normal human, but he’s not anywhere near the speeds of say the Flash.
Basically it’s just the old story about how when you get in a “zone” everything around you seems to slow down, but at the same time you have no problem processing everything at normal speed. Only for Spider-Man everything really slows down.
As far as his brain being a super computer, think about it like this: Michael Jordon has commented that when he gets into a zone everything seems to slow down for him, but at the same time he’s not solving polynomial equations over breakfast. Same thing for Spider-Man (although he is technically a genius).
And on preview I don’t think we can really compare Wonder Man to Spider-Man. Wonder Man is powerful enough to give Superman a run for his money. He’d still lose, but he’d make Supes break a sweat.
You could be right about it being Virus X. Which makes less sense than the bacteria, since virii are not plants in any way.
Lok
That happened in one story where Spidey was fighting Morbius during a winter storm, allthough it might have been ice building up in the mechanism and not the fluid itself.
This might be unanswerable opinion, but what do you think works better for superheroes: real cities or fictional ones?
WIZARD once stated unequivocably that granted, fictional cities – like DC Comics’ – gives creators greater latitude to do damn near anything they want, citing Gotham City’s destruction in the Batman ‘No Man’s Land’ story arc as a good example of the dramatic storytelling possibilities.
But they noted that when someone like Galactus threatens New York with destruction, the tension is heightened because New York is an actual place – one the reader might have lived in, visited or have relatives in. Plus, I will admit how cool it is to see actual New York City locations in Marvel Comics.
(But then I think of the devastation of Pittsburgh in the '80s New Universe’s The Pitt and go… “Yeah… okay, WIZARD. Whatever.”
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Hal as the Spectre was an internet joke on rec.arts.comics.dc.universe for literally years before DC did it. We all wanted to scream at them “We were KIDDING you idiots!”
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It’s not awful or pointless. It starts at awful and pointless and goes through them and out the other side. It’s unspeakable. If you’re old enough to remember the comic “Thriller”, do you rembember how bad it got when, after an editorial dispute both creators left and no-one knew what was going on (it was a sort of mystery book with low powered characters)? This is worse. Especially since it followed John Ostrander’s Spectre series, which was one of the 5 best books of the 1990s.
J.M. Dematthis(sp) when he’s not prostletyzing isn’t bad and can be excellent (he did a stunningly good run in Marvel Team-Up, some neat/creepy stuff in Peter Parker (NO-ONE, and I mean no-one wrote a better Harry Osborne) and he did some fun stuff with the Defenders despite some horrible editorial interference) but his Spectres are just shit. There’s all this pseudopsychological crap, this weird Hindu-lite stuff, and this bizarre whiney soul-searching going on. I mean, c’mon. He generates a Female Spectre out of his anima to see what the feminine principle is like? I don’t know who that is, but it ain’t Hal Jordan. It also ain’t good storytelling. The art’s kinda cool though.
But since it’s being cancelled in the next few months, we can all breathe a sigh of relief until DC’s next dumb idea to butcher Hal. :rolleyes:
And at the risk of being called a HEAT member by Mockingbird, I don’t like the way DC butchered Hal either and this is more of the same. I cannot reconcile this tentative, snivelley overcompensator with the Hal Jordan from 1959-1972 (neither could Kevin Dooley, who bears 100% of the responsiblity for the current situation: He was responsible for the whole Emerald Twilight crap and he had to literally ignore 2-3 years of story to do Emerald Twilight. Gerard Jones had been building Hal’s character for a couple of years (even undoing the crap from the Adams-O’Neill stuff) and had this great storyline going on when Kevin Dooley decided that crippling/destroying characters was the new, “in” thing :rolleyes: You can read what was supposed to be the culmination of a 3 year storyline here )
The best idea I’d ever read to fix the whole Hal situation was in a CBG column by Tony Isabella: He suggested the following: Hal had been under scrutiny by Darkseid for years because Darkseid knew that Hal was a potential GL. Darkseid tried to break Hal a couple of times (making him into a wino, for example) and failed. Hal became the greatest of the GLs despite that. ANYway, years later Batman uncovers something shocking: the person who became Parallax wasn’t Hal Jordan at all: it was Power Ring (the Earth-3 bad guy)…which makes sense, look at Parallax’s mask. They defeat Power Ring once and for all and go looking for Hal, who, it turns out, has been in Desaad’s dungeons on Apokolypse all this time and is still unbroken. After rescuing him, he’s far to physically damaged to be GL again so he retires and Kyle gets to keep the ring. It fixes everything.
Hell, even with the stupid Spectre thing going on it could be used: one of the annoying spirit guide type characters tells the Spectre that his spiritual progress can’t continue until he admits the truth about himself…after the patented J.M.DeMatthis spiritual-gibberish* angst the Spectre realizes that he was Power Ring, not Hal Jordan and things progress.
Sigh.
Fenris
*Well, it is. Gibberish I maan. I’m sure he’s a deeply spiritual person, but he can’t communicate it clearly.
Aargh… There was supposed to be a 
after “At the risk of being called a HEAT member by Mockingbird :)”
In other news, according to Superman Adventures… er, 26? The Supergirl Special… Animated Supergirl is invunerable to standard Green K. Kanto breaks a dagger of it on her chest.
A quick question…
In the Marvel comics universe, is the general public aware of the existance of extraterrestrial life? I assume it’s common knowledge in the DC Universe, considering how Superman’s origins aren’t exactly top secret.
Given how many time Galactus has shown up, given that “Live Kree or Die” story arc (where Earth became a cosmic prison for all the scum of the universe), and given about a million other storylines, I’d say that that’s a big “Yes”!
Fenris
Actually a lot of people write off the Galactus appearances as “mass hysteria.” Well, the first appearance, anyway. Don’t know how long the citizens of America can live in denial like that.
Please, no George Bush jokes.
Correction:
“Live Kree or Die” was Supremor’s plan to turn Earth’s population into Kree. “Maximum Security” was where Earth was turned into a prison.
IIRC, Galactus has also been chalked up as a Fantastic Four hoax. The “Marvels” miniseries did a good job of accounting for this; if you look carefully at the Daily Bugle clippings in that issue, you can see J. Jonah Jameson complaining about the big “G” on his chest.
Mockingbird: What, pray tell, is HEAT? And why does it apparently earn so much derision from you?
It doesn’t do anything for me since I don’t live in New York, Washington, or any other major metropolitan area that Marvel stories take place in. Since practically every creator is based there, I can see why they’d want to do it, but it frankly means diddly squat to me, and I prefer somewhere like Gotham or Metropolis.