Spider Man : Is my memory failing?

Oh please be kidding. There weren’t people complaining about that, were there? I mean, I could see complaining about the fact that Rogue didn’t have Amazing Mutant Boobs like she does in the comics, but not the claw thing.

sigh I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised. It’s things like that which make Comic Book Guy and Larry Groznic realistic caricatures. (“When you are ready to have a serious discussion about Green Lantern, you have my email address.”)

Or at least take some vitamin C or zinc…

Well, Stan Lee is on record saying that he completely understands why they changed to organic webs (story economy) and doesn’t really mind, so that sits well with me.

Has anyone else seen an anime movie called The Ultimate Teacher?

or am I just halucinating Spider-Asshole?

Ya know, these off-color spinneret remarks are starting to creep me out. It was bad enough in the movie, with the scene where Spider-man webs up J. Jonah Jameson’s mouth. Hilarious, at least until some part of my brain spoke up: "Hey, he squirted that out of his own body! Ewww…"

No wonder Jameson hates Spider-man.

Yanno, sometimes I have to wonder what the sex lives of various super heroes must be like. The Superman thing has been done to death but most of the others haven’t, or have they in another thread? I only ask because it seems worthy of its own thread and I don’t want to be redundant.

I nominate Sock Munkey to start a new “Sex Lives of Superheroes” thread! Anyone second this?

where would it go? GQ or MPSIMS?

Cafe Society of course. It’s just an oversight that this wasn’t included in the forum description. Here’s how it should read:

snarfs some Pepsi

You know, it just seems so natural in the comics…

I’ll admit I was a bit grossed out at first: the way they did it in the movie at first looks pretty oogly. After I got used to it it actually looks cooler I think, and obviously the comic artists agree cause they’ve started drawing his claws like that in the books occasionally.

As for Spidey pulling the web out his arse, there’s an easter egg in the DVD where the special effects people actually animated that!

My apologies for this resurrection, I just couldn’t help it. I’m sure we all felt the same way about the bolded text at the time, but now it just seems odd to read.

Still, your response seems to be missing something.

Still, if someone had told us at the time how Marvel would eventually solve the problem (four different origin movies! Joss Whedon!), we would have laughed them off the board.

The idea that Marvel Studios would become a respected heavy hitter on the Lucasfilm level, no less so.

It’s gotten real, real quiet around these topics. :smiley:

[quote=“Fenris, post:13, topic:156979”]

This was in the context of why there’d NEVER be an Avengers movie.

To paraphrase: [ul]
[li]Guy gets hit by nuke and becomes Giant Green rampaging monster. [/li][li]Guy invents shrinking formula…then invents growing formula…then invents shrinking AND growing formula. Then invents a killer robot. Then gets wings and zap-bolts. [/li][li]Guy who invents shrinking formula meets look-alike of dead (or captured by evil Ruskies) wife and A) gives her shrinking formula but also gives her zap bolts and gengineered wings that let her fly. [/li][li]Guy in a war-zone in “South-east Asia” steps on booby trap and gets shrapnel near heart, gets captured by warlord who just happens to have all the equipment necessary to make A) a new energy source (“transistor powered”!), B) microcircuits, C) a Starship-trooper level battle-suit…with "transistor powered magnetic roller-skates!). [/li][li]Mythological deity with psychological issues traps son (also mythological god) in a crippled human form which discovers mythological weapon and becomes god again. [/li][li]Super-Soldier from WWII is frozen in an iceberg and just now thawed. [/li][li]2 mutants (super fast one and one who breaks things by pointing at them). [/li][li]One carnival archer who was tempted into a life of crime by wiley Ruskie spy who now wants to make good.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]

The rash of zombie threads over the last few days has been bugging the shit out of me, but they’re all worth it for this gem. How wrong we were!

We’ll it still wasn’t wrong really. The assertion was that you couldn’t introduce all of those things in one movie. It’s still unproven that you could. Marvel found a way to do it without overloading on ‘gimmes’.

Back to the OP, I’m not especially fond of “organic webshooters in his wrists” or “invented web formula”. In the first, we end up asking why his spinnerets are there of all places, and in the latter we’re forced to accept that completely independently of his spider-related powers, he’s also a metatechnologist, whose only meta-invention coincidentally happens to also be spider-related.

The explanation I prefer is that his spinnerets really are in his nether regions, but that with some relatively simple chemistry (dissolving it in alcohol, say) he’s able to turn what comes out of his butt into usable web-fluid. This still requires him to be smart, but only clever-high-schooler smart (which he’s well-established to be), not meta-smart.

Just so everyone’s clear, that bit you quoted was absolutely not my opinion, but that of Kurt Busiek*

*Although, in retrospect, I remember a Peter David column or two stating the same thing.

So, did Sock Munkey ever start that “Sex lives of Super Heroes” thread?:stuck_out_tongue: