Who the hell drew that picture of him anyway? What on earth has happened to comics these days?
From the wiki article
“Are you the man who dreamed of being a spider? Or the spider who dreamed of being a man…”
I’m pretty sure I have heard a line like that before. Jeff Goldblum said something like that in the fly? Perhaps it was also in the original?
From the IMDB:
The great Taoist master Zhuang-zi once dreamt that he was a butterfly fluttering here and there. In the dream he had no awareness of his individuality as a person. He was only a butterfly. Suddenly, he awoke and found himself laying there, a person once again. But then he thought to himself, “Was I before a man who dreamt about being a butterfly, or am I now a butterfly who dreams about being a man?”
Well, that all looks…uh…less than encouraging.
Ditto on liking the bit with superheroes having normalized social/professional relationships, though.
Lobsang: “The poet Hoha once dreamed he was a butterfly, and then he awoke and said, ‘Am I a man who dreamed he was a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming he is a man?’”
Susan: “Really? … How did he write his poems?”
Lobsang: “With a brush, of course.”
Susan: “He didn’t flap around making information-rich pattems in the air or laying eggs on cabbage leaves?”
– Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time
Was she like the crazy cat lady on The Simpsons, but she chucked spiders at people instead of cats?
I don’t follow comics much at all, but I remember in the late 1980s, one of my friends was a big fan and followed Spider-Man avidly. I saw one of his comics, in which Peter Parker got a new costume, almost all black but with some white details (the eyes, the spider logo on the chest with legs that went all the 'way around, IIRC). Whatever happened to that costume?
Forgive me if this is comics blasphemy, but… I actually liked it better than the original red-and-blue costume.
::ducks and covers, if necessary::
It turned out that the costume was a sentient, malevolent alien being who tried to take control of Spiderman, but was unable to do so. It found a more willing partner and goes by the name Venom now.
That new costume is ass.
I actually kinda like the new outfit. Maybe because I am an uncle Scrooge fan I think spats are cool.
How 'bout we just go with this one, then?
(Hell, most of these looked better.)