Friday, 19 September 2008

NEW WAYS TO DIE

I should probably wait for the last part to review the story, and I certainly hope the last part won't be a disappointment like some animes are disappointing in the last episode. Anyway; I feel the urge to review it so here goes:

One of the many reasons some people hated BND is because Spider-Man became an idiot who couldn't stop a common thief without Spidey tripping or scaring him away like he's an amateur, this flaw has been removed since the bookie story; the supervillains there weren't completely wasted but Spider-Man showed a good fight.
[SPOILERS FROM PART 1-5]
[It starts with a recap on Spidey's origin, the art of JRjr in that part isn't so good, then we see a flashback of Peter fired from the D.B and trying to earn a job.
Spider-Man tries to stop Menace from blowing up anything related to Hollisters campaign and what is around it but a wall he's on gets blown and Spider-Man falls unable to save anyone or stopping Menace, Spider-Man does find a good catch for photographing and sell it to "The Front Line" for publisher "Ben Urich" (and the "Editor in Chief" is Joe Robertson). The photos reveal an illegal shop that is revealed by Sally (a reporter) belongs to the candidate who selects Norman Osborn to protect him.
Norman is a public hero but the "Front Liners" still remember that G.G bought the "Daily Bugle" by force and they realise that Hyena's don't change their attitude.
Norman has a job of him and his Thunderbolts capturing Spider-Man, the Thunderbolts (Songbird, Radioactiveman & Venom) look for Spider-Man who performed a most unexpected move: "Heading directly to the source of his trouble", that is a clever scene.
Venom symbiote senses its former host thinking it senses Spider-Man not "Eddie Brock" who becomes "Anti-Venom" and cleans away the symbiote. (Not entirely)
Eddie changes focus to cleaning Spider-Man before the other members of the Thunderbolts come to rescue Gargan.
Norman has a quick fight with Menace (Menace punched Norman hard and made him bleed heavily), Norman discovers Peter's automatic Camera and examines it in TBHQ and gets an idea to take down Spider-Man.
Freak was taken to Oscorp and from Oscorp Norman took him and used him as a "Guinea Pig" to make an "Anti-Venom" toxin and placed it in Gargan to heal the symbiote.
Spider-Man was injured in the "Coffee Bean" by the bullets with the tracking system and hid temporarily before Eddy came returned the camera to Peter.
Goblin gave Gargan a Scorpion armor and the end of part five was weird]
The good point:
1. The real Spider-Man is real here
2. The villains are very well made
3. Anti-Venom is no villain
4. Martin Li showed his face, his character got deeper. Mr. Negative is one of Spider-Man's most dangerous enemies who comes up to the level of Dr. Octopus
5. The quips and the fights are real fun
6. The art of JRjr maybe flawed in some panels, but it still is great
Read the story; I give it on a scale of 10:10 points

Tuesday, 16 September 2008

UNCLE ROG

ROGER STERN IS COMING BACK TO SPIDER-MAN.

There is an issue he works on to be released this December, from the description it feels odd but what the heck? Uncle Roger is writing it, does it matter that it ties to B.N.D?

Saturday, 13 September 2008

THE ARTIST OF SSM ANIMATED BLOG

http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/
I forgot his name, but he's a brother blogger. If you want to check his blog follow the above link

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

A MESSAGE TO SPIDER-MAN 3 GAME DEVELOPERS IN TREYARCH

[Dear designers of "Spider-Man 3"

I'm a big fan of Spider-Man, and of all the Spider-Man games published by Activision, but here is my problem: "I......HATE........YOOOOOUUUUU", literally. I love the game; but it has a major problem: It is too heavily annoying for the heavy requirement to press button sequence in boss fights, I don't need that, I despise that approach and for that I warn you from repeating the same mistake in "Web of Shadows" or I won't be getting anymore games of your design.

Sincerely yours
An angry fan]

Since I can't mail Treyarch themselves I posted a message for them here.
I highly doubt any of them will enter here to read it, it's just good to express your emotions, don't you agree?

SPIDER-MAN NON-BLOG WEBSITES REVIEWS: pt2

SPIDERFAN.ORG

Jonathan Couper

*Opening Page:
. Spider-Fun by H.B & J.C (formerly weekly done each monday)
. Recent reviews
. Updated polls
. Nice news, raves, letters & fan fun (done by site staff)
. Back reviews
. List of new issues by NCRL

*Viewing index
. Old: Yellow bar on the left side of the page
. Current: Navy Blue Bar on top under the website title
. Characters: Villains, Supporting cast & some heroes full profiles are available, plus a list of their appearances chronologically
. Things: Audio, Cards, Software, Shows & Fast Food


*Comic reviews:
. Main Universe: Main titles, mini series, Guest starring & spinoffs
. Other Universes
. Non Continuity
. Guides, reprints & recaps

Search engine is available in comics page to find the issue in the category on the page

The mechanic of reviews is as following:
1. Synopsis (includes some inner jokes)
2. Reviewer opinion of the issue: Review
3. Rating by Spider-Emblems called webs out of five (half is applicable)
4. Reviewer reasons for rating

Site viewer review:
. Reviews 5/5
. Jokes 4/5 (not all jokes funny, I still don't get a joke about Deadpools face and other characters)
. Things 5/5
. Overall rating 5/5

SPIDER-MAN NON-BLOG WEBSITES REVIEWS: pt1

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN GALLERY: ERIC GILLETTE's WEBSITE

The official website for Spider-Man comics, it deals with all sorts of comics Spider-Man showed in mainly published by Marvel. The focus on Spidey in other media there isn't strong but the site is good.

*Opening page:
A full menu: On the top of the page is the websites title, under the title:
. An image of Spider-Man that gets updated
. Link for buying back issues
. Links sorting some of the media's Spider-Man is available in, & where can you buy these items
. Web introduction
. New & Back Issues reviews
. Web icon's between 2 boxes each: News, Comics, Spider-Verse, History, Heroes (tells how each one of them is a close friend of Spider-Man), Villains (how threatening the villains are),
Entertainment & Media

*Comic reviews:
. For the new comics available there are 2 icons under the "comic shops" link, enter it to read a short review about new comics of the month, ratings out of 5 for each point (quality, significance & cover rating), characters & spoilers in white

. Older issues reviews read more details with 2 ratings after the review (they exist even for non-reviewed comics) for quality & significance, the ratings here are solid numbers, no half's.

. In the review there is no sarcasm or joking, I believe it's required since the web-site is so formal.

. You know what Spider-Man issues came out along with the issue reviewed in that month (N/A for annuals)

*Page opening: Press at a link and it'll directly open the page in a new window (or a tab in the case of Mozilla Firefox)

*Entertainments:
. Jigsaw Puzzles: Macromedia Shockwave is required to play them
. Name That Panel
. Trivia's: 10 multiple choice questions per subject.
. Wallpapers
. Music
. Movie & Television
. Video games 
 
My rating for the site:
. Background: 5/5
. Homepage: 5/5
. Reviews: 3/5 (the reviews are well made, but it's the fact that not so many reviews are available)
. Profiles: 3/5 (It doesn't contain the profiles of many of Spider-Man's supporting cast, and the profiles available aren't so detailed, just ink points)
. Entertainments: 5/5 (Most pleasing entertainments actually)
. Overall rating 5/5
. Entertainment

Monday, 8 September 2008

NEW MOVIES STARRING: TOBEY MAGUIRE?

After much speculation about a fourth film in the 'Spider-Man' series, it is reported that star Tobey Maguire and director Sam Raimi have signed up for the blockbuster.

Deadline Hollywood Daily reports that Sony Pictures wants the film in cinemas for May 2011.

It adds that there is no deal at present for Kirsten Dunst to return as Mary Jane Watson, but that her character will be featured in the film and the studio would not recast.

According to Deadline Hollywood Daily: "The studio is trying to figure out if it can feasibly shoot 'Spider-Man 4' and '...5' at the same time because doing that is so cost effective and 'it wasn't so easy to get everybody back together'."

Principal photography is not scheduled to start until the autumn of 2009.

COVERS RESEMBLANCE

I searched for Thundercats and look what I found:

The cover of "Thendercats 8" as published by STAR comics, looks familiar? It does to me.It looks somewhat like the cover of the precious Amazing Spider-Man #151.



Check these out, these are Spider-Man covers in the same style:




Saturday, 6 September 2008

KRAVEN's LAST HUNT ALTERNATE COVERS BY MIKE ZECK

These are covers from "Kraven's Last Hunt" done by Mike Zeck, alternative covers by the same artist under each cover. The art is from the website of Mike Zeck.

I learned about the site after seeing this blog linking to "Spider-Man's crawl space interview with writer: Jon Marc (J.M.) Dematties"






For those who want to know why Batman is on an alternate cover: "Follow the link and listen to mr. Dematties Speak about his original plans for this story"

Friday, 29 August 2008

PC SPIDER-MAN 3

I'll simply say it like this:
My favorite Spider-Man game of all times, the best Spider-Man video game made so far. In my favorites are as following all in one level:
1. Ultimate Spider-Man
2. Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro
3. GBA Spider-Man 2
4. Maximum Carnage SNES & GBP Amazing Spider-Man

I love the missions in this game out of the story of the game, the "Dragon Tails" are awesome and not simple stupidity like they are in the PS2 & "Nintendo wii" versions.

It's fun to swim instead of drowning and automatically getting out of water.

After playing the PS2 version for long and getting exhausted of delivering fruit pies and dealing with moronic gangs I feel now sky high, Harry's battle was a thrill because there is real combat instead of avoiding cars and attacking by dodging, then I take Harry to the hospital.

Today 2/9/2008: My brother finished the Lizards stage and taught me how to finish the bombs missions for Carlyle, it's a thrill since now I can finally fight my favorite Spider-Man villain ever: The Scorpion

Monday, 25 August 2008

SSM ANIMATED VOTE RESULTS

What do you think of Spectacular Spider-Man animated without thinking of the cartoonish art?

BRAND NEW SPIDER-MAN, OR OLD SPIDER-MAN

After 8 months of the undoing of Peter's & MJ's marriage I sum all I have to say in one simple line:
              "Joe Quesada did the right thing by undoing the marriage"

Why do I say that? compare the stories written by legendary writer "Peter David", the only good story he wrote  with a married Spider-Man is "Cult of Love", I read FNSM and I liked "The Other: Evolve or Die" which most of the voters in "www.spiderfan.org" found unlikeable, all his writings in FNSM aren't good in comparison to his writings before the marriage gets broken.

Another example of writers who couldn't do it right when Peter was with his wife is "Paul Jenkins", Spider-Man readers know that all his writings are with a married Peter, but when M.J was away Spider-Man stories were the best of fun to be seen, after Peter and M.J reunited and P.J wrote stories for them together; the stories didn't have the right fun that should exist in Spider-Man comics.

No writer managed to pull the stint right except for two:
1. "Joe Straczynski" sided by "John Romita jr"
2. Marvel Knight (this is how I nickname him) writer "Mark Millar"

The difference is extremely obvious, I believe people should stop hating the new direction of Spider-Man in the 616 universe

Thursday, 10 July 2008

THE TOMBSTONE MADNESS



I'm talking about L.T.L (Lonnie Thompson Lincolin): Craeted by "Gerry Conway"(writer) and "Alex Saviuk"(artist) in Web of Spider-Man 35-36.
COMICS:
His first major role is in "Spectacular Spider-Man #139-142" as a hired muscle working for the Kingpin, his major communicator is "the Arranger of Kingpin". Tombstone was hired to kidnap some guy with mutant powers who can persuade people (The Persuader) to use against the "Lobo Brothers", he did his job well and tormented "Ronald Reiburn" (a.k.a the Persuader).

Lonnie was an albino, he became a gangster in "Joseph Robertson's" old highschool, Lonnie respected Joseph and consodered him as his friend in a very sick manner and convinced him in his own way to retract writings about how bad a person he is (Lonnie Convinced Roberston). Robbie worked in a newspaper in his old state and he had a source of information about some gangster work, Lonnie broke Robbie's source of information (he was a dude, Tombstone killed him).

Robbie recorded these informations in a tape and confineded it to Peter because as a photojournalist he has the most understanding about such matters. Somehow; Lonnie learned about this tape and convinced Peter to get it to him after breaking Robertson's back and pulling Mary Jane's hair (originally pulled her hair, she told Peter Tombstone broke her arm. Hmmmm).

After a nice battle with Spider-Man Spidey asked Tombstone why he didn't kill Joe Robertson, Lonnie replied with his weak voice: "How can I kill him? Robbie is my friend." How nice a sentiment this is, sure you can hurt your friend, but if you kill him that means your not friends? (Lonnie is a loony)

In prison Robbie befriended some nice huge gentleman who taught him how to defend himself, Tombstone and his gangsters killed that guy and used Robbie to escape at a time Spider-Man was in prison to visit his friend. Tombstone and Robbie went to a helicopter then fell down and were found and taken care of by a ranch owner. Tombstone wanted to play with his friend before killing him, but he was happy to see Robbie valiant.

Guess who took Lonnie (Tombstone) Lincolin from that area? Ooooh, men of Hammerhead, he was against Kingpin at that time but Tombstone changed his loyalty.

After Robbie was proven innocent Tombstone still wanted to kill Robbie himself so he stopped a demonised Hobgoblin hired by Hammerhead from eliminating Robertson.

Lonnie gained super-powers in Osbourns lab and turned against Hammerhead (You think there might be a chance of...? I think some readers may get what I'm pointing at).

In short: If you hate Venom you sure have to hate Tombstone, he's more of a sicko than Venom is (except there is a lack of heroism, and no symbiote either. Is there an "Ultimate Tombstone"?)

Enough with the comics, lets see what's Tombstone job in stas:
The Tablet of time from the comics, remember it with "Man Mountain Marko" working for "Silvermane"? M.M.M was replaced by good old Tombstone in the cartoon.

Aha; Now we see Tombstone's origin: Really was Robbies friend who went to prison as a child ("marvel.toonzone.net/90s.php", pick spidey tas from there and episode reviews to get the details.)

THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN:
"Greg Weisman" decided to use "Stan Lee's" & "Steve Ditko's" crimelord (Big Man) and made Tombstone fill his shoes instead of "Frederick Foswell". The best version of Tombstone ever (the only good one as a matter of fact, and he's great).

Now I mentioned previously something about Hammerhead, can you dig it out? I'll give you a hint: "Hammerhead works for (The Big Man) in this show", the best thing about it is that Hammerhead hasn't been watered down, atleast Hammerhead here is interesting, not some fool like tas version.

Certainly: I'd really call "Greg Weisman" by "The Man" if he cancelled the moronic; Tombstone is Robbie's wanna be friend. Excellent job you did on the show crew, keep up the "Spectacular Work"

Thursday, 3 July 2008

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL#20

Ironman of the year 2020 is "Arno Stark", man of the year for the year 2015 (don't ask). For the Records: "Arno did not inherit Stark Enterprises, he bought the company".


I read Al Sjoerdsma review of this annual and saw that he rated it 2.5 webs, after just reading the review I thought "Big Al" for being generous, after reading the issue myself (wanted to see really how lame it is in reality) I think if I rated the issue as he did I'll be underrestimating the Annual if I credited it with just 3, it deserves 4.5 webs. I'm not one of "spiderfan.org" staff but I've been a fan of it for 5 years and intended to write for it. Back to the subject.

Our man of the year for the year 2015 must save his enterprises and his surrounding (for some many miles radius) after a dead terrorist bomb is set to elapse and the only way to stop it from exploding is to go 30 years in the past to take the print the eye iris of the terrorist when he was a child, while past time counts present time was counting as well.

In the present (in the era of this issue) there's this loser for a villain (Blizard) who got stopped by Spider-Man and Blizards costume gets confisticated by the police.

The terrorist Arno must catch the print of his eye imprint is one of the children stockholders of "the Daily Bugle" (sometimes Jameson is the only owner and others he has partners for the position of the Bugle).

Peter gets sent by Jameson to do a job out of the states, Peter accepts because he needs the money to pay for his rent.

Peter did a very very gutsy or crazy move to make sure his landlady won't hold him for the late rent he ows her, after Peter got away from his apartment he met that kid again.

On the way to the Airport Spider-Man (did you guess Peters move to get past his landlady) Peter dropped the kid at the "Daily Bugle", the kid got kidnapped by Blizard who got quickly bailed out of prison and wanted revenge on Spider-Man.

Arno found his target and when he was about to taake what he wants Spider-Man became too much of an annoyance, Arno couldn't do what he came for originally, the kid got hospitalized and Spider-Man got something he desrves greatly; he missed his flight.

Back in his time: Arno witnesses he is too late and he got really upset about it, his place and a big area of its surrounding have been destroyed by the bomb.

As I mentioned earlier: 4.5 webs Great entertainment

Sunday, 29 June 2008

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #21

You can call my current syndrome for typing my second Amazing Annual thread in a row "Amazing Spider-Man Annual Fever". I've been chasing like quicksilver for these issues and I had a hard time finding them until my recent happiness (THANK GOD). Amazing Spider-Man 21st Annual in precise and the 18th Annual were my main target, because I always wanted to read about the two main marriage events in the main continuity Spider-Man saga. I'll write my review since I haven't had the opportunity to write my fan review for some issues on the internet. "Married Peter" fans; enjoy.

After Amazing Spider-Man #292 (the one which ended with M.J finally accepting Peter Parkers marriage proposal) comes this issue straight.
Spider-Man wears his black suit (since all of his red and blue suits got destroyed before Web of Spider-Man #18) swinging across town during Electro committing a robbery and his gang members pretend to be his hostages, Spidey interferes and dodges the electric bolts and made him wet to win.

After the victory of the day Spider-Man swung to his apartment, changed and M.J brought some of her stuff (too much for Peter's small Chelsea apartment) to their future small condo. In the planning of making space M.J decided to throw Peters costume shop R&B (from Spider-Man vs. Wolverine, the issue witnessing the death of Ned Leeds by the Foreigner men, and later revealed the orders came from the original Hobgoblin ) but Peter refuses.

Peter in his Aunts home in Queens see an open photo album with images of Gwen Stacy, Peter became heartsick about his old love. Peter and M.J later revealed their plan to their aunts and the elder ladies are so pleased about the news (the real Anna Watson in the comics respects Peter, not the old harpy from Spider-Man: tas who always insult Peter Parker) and they congratulate their young ones.

Peter gives Eugen Thompson the news and asks him to be his best man, during the gangs war Eugene was injured by a pumpkin bomb trying to help spidey, the bomb was thrown by Macendale. In that honor Peter, Eugene, and Harry celebrated Peter's bachelor and convinced him to go on with the wedding after Peter said he might reconsider the marriage. At the same time M.J was having her bachelorette party and some of the guys tried to set her of the marriage (especially a guy named Bruce who gave M.J some gifts to persuade her).

Against all the odds, against all the doubts the two sides had and against the well of Bruce; "Peter Benjamin Parker" and "Mary Jane Watson" attended their wedding late, but the marriage took place.

Peter and MaryJane celebrated their honeymoon using a gift from Bruce (who was trying to brainwash M.J) the details of the happy honeymoon are in Spectacular Spider-Man annual #7.
The newly weds returned to their small Chelsea apartment missing the space and luxury they had in France during their honeymoon.

REVIEW:
David Michelinie proved his mettle in writing Amazing stories, this is one of the best and most memorable issues in the history of Spider-Man. The art is Amazing as well, but the red&blued inside the story didn't look as great as John Romita sr. draws it, but it looks great.

According to spiderfan.org ratings: Solid story, 5 webs

Monday, 16 June 2008

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL 18

My favorite era of Marvel comics is the eighties, but that doesn't mean Stan (the man) Lee isn't one of my favorite writers of all time. In his sixties; Stan proved to still have a futile mind with his classic touch of the Golden & Silver ages of comics, a perfect example to prove it is this issues:
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #18 (ANNUAL) 1984

After the long relationship between J.Jonah Jameson and genius inventor Dr. Marla Madison they finally get married. Jonah Jameson invite the staff in the Bugle closest to him to his wedding, he also invites his son John who was upset that the marriage of his father would stand in between his (Father and Son) relationship with his father.

In the office of the esteemed publisher of the Daily Bugle (J.Jonah Jameson) Spider-Man arrives at the window with a bouquet of roses to Mrs. Jameson and congratulates Jonah in a manner that upsets the publisher. (The story occurred after the events of Amazing Spider-Man #258, so it's after M.J's revelation to Peter).

The Scorpion (Mc Gargan) receives the news in prison and he breaks lose of custody and takes his suit to congratulate his worst enemy in his style, Scorpion kidnaps John Jameson and assaults the police station where J.J reports the kidnapping of his son to "Captain Jean DeWolff".

Scorpion hangs "John Jameson" in a mad jacket and hangs him in the sewers to take of to the floor of Jonah Jameson, Spider-Man barges in and saves Marla Madison (the one Scorpion was after to get hard on Jameson) and swings carrying her over a few buildings then releases her to fight Scorpion.

Of course; the Scorpion has to take revenge on Jameson before everything else so he distracts Spider-Man long enough to get back to Dr. Madison. John escaped his custody and tried to save his future stepmother but he got caught with her.

Spider-Man punched Scorpion and fought him valiantly until Scorpion fell hard. Jonah Jameson became happy and went on with his marriage. John accepted the fact that his dad was getting married again and became his fathers "best man". The wedding took place and since then Marla Madison became officially Mrs.Jameson.

REVIEW:
The story earned its place in my treasury collection, Stan Lee once again proved his mettle and stood like a solid rock. The classic writing, the action, the drama and the quips and jokes all exist, every element worked to create Spider-Man as the comics legend we know and enjoy most admirably. Backed up by the art of "Ron Frenz" who by then was following the footsteps of the creative legend "Steve Ditko" gave the story the classic figure.

A very splendid issue, I'm highly pleased I finally had my copy. I always wanted this story for the following reasons:
.Spider-Man
.Written by: Smiley Stan
.The main villain is one of my favorites since I saw (Attack of the Arachnoid, my favorite animated story of Spider-Man for all ages)

Easily deserves 5/5

Sunday, 1 June 2008

IF I WROTE SPIDER-MAN

I intend to do some writing jobs for Marvel comics starting with limited series, going up to the Hulk and IronMan, ending up with Spider-Man.

The road to this dream is hard, everyone has to work hard, and I admit I have to work hard to write right. Why do I have the intentions to write about Spider-Man in exact? There are two major reasons:

1. Spider-Man is my all times favorite comic book character: Seconded by Batman, Hulk, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Beast, Iceman, Daredevil and Johnny Storm the Human Torch.

2. I want to work to fix at least a little of what Marvel has broken: I don't know the possibility of this, but they seriously should let someone get back to write the true Spider-Man, the experienced Spider-Man, not some semi-joker who can't catch a thief right (if he caught one).

In the classic Stan Lee and Steve Ditko version Spider-Man started as a teenager, if a thief escaped it was only because Spider-Man was to busy punching the rest of his gang and trying not separate their heads from their shoulders, he never wasted webbings on yoyo's who didn't get to connect to the other end of the web before Spider-Man shoots too many web lines.

How can Stan Lee accept the way his most succeful creation ends down the drain? I admit I enjoyed the stories of the current idiot, but it hurts to see Spider-Man falls hard from between the hands of his fans.

Sure hope Marvel would read this after they finish reading the millions of letters and thousands of websites insulting this new version and reconsider their intent to keep him this way.

Tuesday, 20 May 2008

NO TITLE

I love "Resident Evil" games, especially RE2&3(the only Resident Evil games I played actually, but I saw most of the rest of the RE series). After seeing how "Spider-Man Unlimited" was released, now a game of "Mortal Kombat vs. DC" is about to be released, I think my idea of a game have a possibility to be released (I didn't say it will never be rejected), a game of "Spider-Man in Resident Evil"

1st Version: Spider-Man is sent by the "Daily Bugle" to take pictures of the whole city and its status, and Spider-Man leaves a little distance of around two miles before the city blows up.

2nd Version: Peter Parker got a college scholarship to "Racoon City University" and he works for Umbrella to train his science abilities and gain further experience, and he there becomes "Spider-Man". Also he leaves for a few miles before the city blows up.

Saturday, 10 May 2008

SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN ANIMATED 2nd POST

So far 10 or 11 weeks has passed since the beginning of this newly made and released animated series, a strong start and so far the show proved powerful.

At first I wasn't in the mood to watch it because the 2 new animated series released after "Spider-Man the animated series" weren't highly well made (MTV's CGI series are definitely much better than Unlimited). But after seeing the first and second episode I thought otherwise: The new series rocks, to see further season's of it is more worthy of watching an upcoming anonymous series written by writers I don't know the quality of their writings and a director with uncertain sense of direction.

Currently I'm enjoying season 1 and I'll post reviews on it after the season ends, I might open a new blog specified for the purpose of reviewing the series solely, each post reviewing an episode of the show and I might as well attach the trailer of each episode if not uploading just images.

Friday, 9 May 2008

THE FILMS 1-3

SPIDER-MAN: THE MOVIE:

The first powerful flick on Spider-Man, actually it was the first Spider-Man flick with an original popular and powerful Super-Villain: The Original "Green Goblin"
A bold move it was to start with Spider-Man's most formidable and dangerous enemy.

Peter Parker the shy & timid high school senior student follows the bus on feet to have a ride with no one liking him or allowing him to have a seat with him, with only M.J Watson nice to him but she goes steady with Flash.
Like the Ultimate universe Harry is Peter's friend but he isn't as loved by big shots as in the comics. Peter meets Norman Osbourn before the field subject of the trip begins.

Taking photos of M.J inside he got bitten by the spider that escaped containment.

Had great powers he decided to get money to buy a car and impress M.J with it. Peter went wrestling and won but later lost big because his action to have revenge on the Arena manager after being robbed the same burglar shot his uncle and that gave Peter a hard lesson of responsibility.

The Goblin had fearsome fights with the wall crawler and decided he is dangerous for a foe and must be allied with, but Spider-Man rejected his offer which made G.G discover accidentally learned that Spider-Man is Peter but that killed him and made Harry seek revenge on Spider-Man after seeing him placing the dead and wounded body of his Father.

Rating: 9.5/10
Very well made movie, it lost half a point because Norman was drinking something with the color of urine.
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SPIDER-MAN 2:

2 years have past since the death of Norman Osbourn. Peter got fired from a pizza place because he's always late, Mary Jane is an actress who dates John Jameson, Harry Osbourn is the head of Oscorp and still seeking revenge on Spider-Man but still counting Peter as his brother like friend.

In the 1st Peter got fired from a job by Dr. Connors because he never shows up on time, but the good doctor didn't make an appearance. Here Peter got late for class and his teacher "Curt Connors" warning Petr that he''ll be failed if he didn't send his fusion article to Dr. Connors.

Since Harry Osbourn sponsored Dr. Octopus's program and Peter was attempting to write his thesis on Dr. Octavius (a good friend of Connors in this film) he took the chance to meet him personally before the accident that turned Otto Octavius to the diabolical Doctor Octopus.

Because of his issues of thinking about his life he temporarily lost his powers, but he retrieved them after Octavius kidnapped M.J. so he can deliver Spider-Man to Harry in exchange of the tritium 90 to restart his experiment. Spider-Man's true face was figured by Harry who decided to have truce with Spider-Man before finding his father's secret.

Rating: 9/10
To me; this film is much better than the first one but there was just too much alcohol compared to the first one, Peter even grabbed himself a glass.
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SPIDER-MAN 3:

Peter managed to handle and balance his life:
.People Love Spider-Man.
.He's in Top of His Class.
.M.J. Loves him and he decided to marry her.

Peter Parkers Venomized side is really well done, it's just too funny to pass, except during his fight with Harry (a good scene) and his interaction with MJ (another good scene)

This movie was really boring so writing a review about it will bore me as well.

Generally Rating it: 5/10
Not because of Venom, there is so little Spider-Man. And his life scenes aren't that interesting as they are in the comics.
Sandman is nice: I know he temporarily reformed and helped Spider-Man in some occasions but here he was redicioulisly the thug who originally killed Ben Parker, and because Captain George Stacy found that out recently and told Peter and his aunt about it Peter had bad dreams and got really pissed off that his new suit possessed him.

THE GOBLIN IS BACK

HI Marvellete's and a big Hello to the spidey fans. I bet you miss classic Spider-Man villains since the events of "Brand New Day", Your wish is coming true.

Guess who returns to the Spider-Man series in "Amazing Spider-Man". I can give you a clue that he is a goblin, and he'll appear back in comics 10 issues from the current "Amazing Spider-Man #558" with one of the covers by "Alex Ross".

For a bit further informations; you can visit Marvel comics website through this following link:

http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.3482.Joe_Q_talks_Iron_Man,_Spidey_&_More?
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Tuesday, 6 May 2008

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #246


One of my many favorite issues of "The Amazing Spider-Man". Done by the great "Roger Stern" and the Fabuolos "John Romita jr".

Titled "Daydreamers"; the issue shows the fantasies of four main characters as told by "The Watcher":

1. The Black Cat "Felecia Hardy".

2. Jolly "J. Jonah Jameson" (as shown on the cover of the issue).

3. Mary Jane Watson.

4. Peter Parker as Spider-Man.

There are absolutely no villains here if you don't consider some cameos in one or some of the characters dream(s).

This is the story review in a very very summarized way. I can handle the review of the story but story reviewers might not like the idea of someone reviewing an issue in a blog when there are various comic reviewing sites.

Monday, 5 May 2008

SOLO SPIDER-MAN ANIMATED SERIES: 1981

This show is clearly one of my many favorite Marvel animated shows, especially in the Spider-Man buisness. It's called cheesy but it got close enough to the comics with adding a few outer villains (5 actually: Gadgeteer, StuntMan, Professor Gizmo(sort of a Mindell Stromm ripoff, why didn't they use Mindell Stromm? Who wants vengeance in a cartoon in the era when cartoons are meant to be fun), a cowboy titled as SideWinder & Nephilia(who isn't actually a villain, but Penny is who pretended to love him)).

Art style is based on the fantastic art of the legendary "John Romita sr." and the animation is actually quite well done, though the characters run in a funny way and sometimes Spider-Man crawls wall in a funny way.

The most significant villain in this show isn't the "Green Goblin" nor "Doc Ock", actually the arch nemesis of Spider-Man in this show is "Victor Von Dom"/"Dr.Doom". Doctor Doom had the most memorable animated appearance in this animated series especially in his arc titled "Doctor Doom: Master of the world". The story of the good doctor was supposed to be a movie then was decided to be a mini series shown in Europe according to writer "Larry Parr".

The reasons for me to adore this show are as following:
1. I'm a big fan of Spider-Man.
2. I love the fantastic art of "The Amazing John Romita sr."
3. 80's American animated series are great, they have very great stories and art
4. Through this animated series alongside "Spider-Man & his Amazing Friends" I recognised and loved Spider-Man.
5. The more I read about Spider-Man the more connection I find between this Peter Parker and Marvel Comics Peter Parker, so I grow more fond of it.
6. Some people go against this reason, but I have to say it: Not so much romance complicating stuff beside the thing with Peter's first love interest "Betty Brant"

Before knowing about MJ in the comics and the movie I used to think: "Why does she exist?" but I really grew fond of her character and her role as a supporting cast member, yet I'm very pleased to see that show free from her.

Some people think that the villains here were actually lowered down, I say after going deep in the comics: Only "The Lizard" and 'Magneto" weren't that loyal to the comics, though the Lizard was actually very close except the fact that he doesn't have his alter ego "Dr. Curtis Connors".

Saturday, 26 April 2008

SPIDER-MAN ADVENTURES: COMICS BASED ON SPIDER-MAN THE ANIMATED SERIES

SEASON 1:

These series are based on the first season of Spider-Man animated series of the 1990's, the first season was as groovy as the series earlier to it and the new Spectacular animated series, the animated series were based on comics and I loved much of it before season 5.

I only read 3 issues of "Spider-Man Adventures" so far and they are really boring, the reason isn't because I hate comics, "I actually love the comics in the mainstream", but these issues are a complete horror.

Look at the following pages and tell me wether you agree with me or not:

From episode1 (Night of The Lizard):























He remembers the experiment while in the Bugle
and all of a sudden his dear aunt May calls him there.

Not exactly what you can call boring, but this stuff stiffed me from boredom I almost slept while reading this, though I hardly read the words.

The first meeting between Peter and the Lizard, they have a weak fight.

























Now seriously, Where
is the terrified Eddie Brock who faces the Lizard.

Not the Lizard fighting Spider-Man who got out to save Brock and gets shocked to see the Lizard is real, not my kind of comics.

Sure: You'll defeat your deadly enemy by showing him the image of him and his family. Why is Billy in the sewers?


From Episode 8 (The Alien Costume pt.1):
























Rhino outside the shuttle "VICTORY" Peter's Dream is ridiculous


Why is Spider-Man tossing police cars instead of tossing people who are attacking him in self defense? And he didn't wake up hanging upside down.

From Episode 9 (The Alien Costume pt.2):























No pun intended, but where are the security crew?
Spider-Man broke the table in two half's, and left just like that?
Why didn't Dr. Connor's get frightened because a wanted man enters his office?











No screams, no shouts, not a frightened Shocker escaping after an angry Spider-Man removed the very heavy rubble off of himself. No screams from a scary Spider-Man. Eddie didn't push Spider-Man. Not my kind of Spider-Man stories at all.










Now you be the judge. Am I right for hating these comics or what?

Sunday, 20 April 2008

MY SPIDER-MAN COMIC BASED DRAWINGS

These are all my drawings currently:




#This one is the logo of "THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN" comics back in the late 80's and the early 90's.








I loved drawing this one, this is the pose of Spider-Man after being punched by the Molten-Man after seeing each other in Amazing Spider-Man #132 "The plan of the Molten-Man"







#SKETCHES BASED ON J.B's (John Byrne) CHAPTER1



This sketch is drawn based on Spider-Man punching the Hulk in the story titled: "Green Death In The Desert". That story starts with a rehash on the "Amazing Spider-Man #013" when Spider-Man defeats Mysterio, then Norman Osbourn offers him a job in a movie, the remaining parts are based on "Amazing Spider-Man #014" but no enforcers are in that issue









This is when Spider-Man was about to get creamed by the Hulk in that story





#FROM THE BOOK OF MARVEL UNIVERSE:



This sketch is based on Spider-Man in his chapter opening in the book that talks about Marvel Universe by Peter Sanderson. Spider-Man is the only character who has his own chapter in that book.

The picture is of a copy of the original drawing. This is the only sketch I colored from all the ones I did.








This one is my personal favorite, I had quite a hard time drawing it five year before now but it was worthy of my time and effort, this sketch is based on one of the Romita's drawing that was placed on the cover of the book.
This character is the only colored character on the cover.

Thursday, 3 April 2008

THE BLACK SUIT

#MAINSTREAM COMICS:

1st FIGURE TOPPING SPIDER-MAN:

The alien costume that Spider-Man had in a device that he thought is supposed to fix ripped up costumes, the device instead putted a black blob that made his "Spider-Sense" tingle but the suit grew too quickly on him to react. First appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #252, origin and gained in Secret Wars #08 mini series on the Beyonder's planet, Reed Richards wanted to test that new suit of Spider-Man's. In the exact same month Amazing Spider-Man #258 was released, Spider-Man went to Reed Richards and had the suit examined because it made him sleep for too long.

After Reed Richards (a.k.a: Mr. Fantastic)* examinations have ended he revealed to Spider-Man that his new magical suit is actually a living being that is bonding slowly until it takes complete control over him, now that Spider-Man knew that fact he couldn't have taken it off without the help of Reed's sonic blaster that Mr. Fantastic used to direct the living suit to a container powerful enough to seal the beast. A device snook in the FF headquarters and made a whole for the substance to escape.

After the substance escaped it roamed the alleys to head back for its first victim -a man from Indiana who visited the place as a challenge to people who say New York alleys are dangerous- the symbiote blocked his mind while on him using him to reach Peter Parker's apartment because by itself, the alien can't move fast enough. The alien left the man with him not remembering anything after changing alleys and believed how dangerous the place is.


The alien got in Peters closet and disguised itself as a Red & Blue Spider-Man suit. When Pete decided to go out he wanted to take a real suit but the alien jumped to his hand, Spider-Man wore it and found it to be comfortable before he sees its true form in the mirror, the alien tricked the hero to wearing it so he could take control over his original host. A long struggle happened between the alien and Spider-Man until he got rid of it and of a vulturion who was fighting him alone by a church bell, the alien left its hosts body for good.


2nd FIGURE:

After his return from the Beyonder's planet he went to his aunt's home and saw a Black Cat which was looking for him, at first cat got confused and didn't trust her boyfriend thinking he was an impostor. Black Cat gained high admiration for the look of Spidey in black that she got upset when he started wearing his classic uniform again, to put Spider-Man in good light's from her point of view she sew the black costume and showed it to the Spectacular Arachnid.

Thinking that the alien was in her hands Spider-Man told her that this is dangerous and she should get rid of it, Cat giggled and called him silly before stating that she loved how he looked in the alien saw she sewed (P.P.T.S.S.P #099) a suit in the same figure the alien took on him. Spier-Man declined at first because of its look, but he wore it in Amazing Spider-Man #263 after his red n' blue got soaked for a long time.

Peter used to switch between suits depending on his mood until he lost his last Rn'B suit in Web of Spider-Man #018, after that time he kept wearing the black suit until he returned to his new home after his first fight with Venom, Peter burnt the suit he was wearing because it reminded M.J. of her fright of Venom, she didn't want to get confused because of it. This might have been the last time Spider-Man wore this suit in comics before exposing his face, becoming a fugitive after turning against Stark and the registration act, and KingPin sending a hit man to shoot Peter but instead shot May Parker. After leaving KingPin in critical condition he started wearing his Rn'B suit again.
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#WHAT IF COMICS:

Spider-Man wore the alien in the issue titled: What if the Symbiote Has Possesed Spider-Man. In that story Spider-Man gets old too soon because of what the alien did to him by sucking his adrenaline. The suit first jumped to the Hulk and eventually cured him of his Hulkness before jumping on Thor. This facinating story is sketched by master artist "Mark Bagley". This story is worthy to spend time and money on it.

The Black Cloth was on Spider-Man in three issues:
1. What If: Punisher Became VENOM
2. What if: Spider-Man & Mary Jane never got married
3. What if: Kraven Killed Spider-Man
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#ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN:

After Peter and MJ broke up, Peter was in the basement of his house in his underwear and discovered some memoreables left to him by his late father, there were many tapes and Peter took one of them. May saw the video with her nephew (he really is May's nephew in the Ultimate, she's the sister of Peter's late mother)
and told him that the people he didn't recognise are the Brocks, Eddie Brock sr. was Richard Parkers partnr before they die in a plane crash and Eddie Brock jr. was Peter's childhood friend. Peter located Brock by the internet and called him, reminding Edward of the good old childhood. Peter had a reunion with Eddie Brock jr. in E.S.U. and handed him a copy of the tape he was watching.

In the university's science building Eddie showed Peter his locker, and viewed to him their common inheretance: "A Protoplasmic Goo that is supposed to Cure Cancer and gives the one wearing it greater strength". Eddie's grandfather kept it because it was belonging to his son (Eddie sr.). The substance was frozen for long and Eddie jr. brought it to the university for Dr. Connors (his genius professor) so they can study it.

The next day Brock took Peter out of school in the car he inerited from his father and Gwen went with them, they went to a mall and Peter asked if his friend thinks that their parents were murdered in the plane crash that killed them (unfortunately I don't recall what happened next). Edward told Peter & Gwen about a concert if they're interested to see, peter passes and in his house he sees a tape that reveals the betrayal of Bullivard Trask to Richard & Edward sr.

An angry Peter heads to E.S.U as Spider-Man, sneaks in and opens the locker of his friend to take a sample of the suit to study it. Unmasked and not wearing his gloves while taking the sample to study, a drop of the suit falls on Peters hand and triggers his Spider-Sense, that drop spreaded quickly on him and covered him in a rock solid crystalised material. Peter broke out of it to see he got in a black suit like his 616 counterpart got on the Beyonders Planet.

The Amazing Spider-Man went to a spin, he felt new strength and power greater than his own. Spider-Man stopped some thugs, people who kindapped a rockstar, Shocker who didn't hurt Spider-Man by his vibro shock powers, and a thug that reminded him of the murederer of his uncle Ben. The figure of the thug triggered aggression and the suit became Venom, Spider-Man almost strangled the culprit to death if he didn't get control on himself.

Peter went to a livewire to get rid of the suit, he unfortunately fell naked, he fell right next to the graves of his family. Brock saw Spider-Man in black on the news and went to check on the suit sample because of his suspiciouns, he found Peter destroying the suit samples and that he is truly Spider-Man. This is why Eddie became Venom using a sample Peter didn't know about (his bro, as Brock calls parker in the new Spctacular series)

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#MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN:

After a duel with Rocket Racer, Stiltman and a third villain from the funnies in MASP021 Spider-Man learned they all had their gizmo's from the terrible tinkerer, Spider-Man went there and had a second encounter with the funnies in the tinkerer headquarter that made him fall on a container holding some black technical nanosuit, Peter thought it was made by the Tinkerer.

Wearing that suit for a while was OK, Spider-Man had an encounter with the Sand-Man while wearing that suit in a clothes store. To fight Sand-Man Peter changed in a changing room that was surveillanced and a security guard was going to sell the recording of Spider-Man changing if not for Peter saving him.

In Marvel Adventures Spider-Man 024 Spider-Man was bugging a guy named Eddie Brock. Peter Started feeling weird in his suit that he went to Mr. Fantastic for a check and discovered it was a symbiote that was trying to take over him. Mr. Fantastic took the suit off of Spider-Man and locked it in a container that the Torch opened later to see how it looks on him and flamed on to dicover that the alien hates ______________________________________________________________________

#SPIDER-MAN THE ANIMATED SERIES:

In "The Alien Costume" Peter, Robbie, Jonah and KingPin see John Jameson and the other shuttle pilot in a mission while returning from the moon after the new isotope Colonel.Jameson found there and pulled out caused a disturbance on the moon surface, the Anchorman talked about the initial tests done on the isotope in the shuttle and how they proved the isotope (Promethium-X) can generate heat. Wilson Fisk sent the Rhino to the George Washington Bridge duo to Smythes calculations regarding the direction of the falling shuttle to steal the Promethium.

After the shuttle fell Spider-Man went to save the pilots and got shocked to see the shuttles door ripped off. In the shuttle Spider-Man fought the Rhino who had to leave by order of the KingPin and Spider-Man took the pilots out. Eddie Brock took shots of what happened out of the shuttle and convinced Jonah Jameson that Spider-Man stole something from the shuttle that was announced in the news to be Promethium-X.

Spider-Man took the costume and threw it in the basket with sorrow after seeing the news declaring him being a thief and $1m a reward offered by Jameson to the capture of Spider-Man. Peter slept and the goo that sticked to his suit from the shuttle moved right over him. Peter had a dream of a fight on him between his suit and the goo till the goo won and swallowed him to wake seeing himself upside down clanged to a side of a building in a black suit he never saw before.

Two cops in a chopper went to get him after figuring out who this weirdo on the side of the wall is and the suit started escaping getting Parker startled of how the suit moves and of its powers: Jumping much higher than usual, webbing shooting on its own and how when the people on the ground attacked him the suit moved throwing them until he agreed with the suit and got away. Testing his new strength Peter pulled up a heavy fire engine then hid and let the symbiote form as an officer uniform to trick the cops away from him and decided to keep it.

Went to college happily he turned the alien to a gray suit, Felicia Hardy saw him and git surprised to how Peter changed until she got scared how he held Flash with anger.

After an unpleasant talk with his Aunt May during dinner Peter withdrew to his room suddenly hearing the signal from the spider tracer he implanted on Rhino in the shuttle and had a fight with him in a prison. After getting Rhino defeated and terrified Spider-man left with fright in his heart.

In the next day Spider-Man had a fight with a group of bounty hunters who almost defeated him with the sonic blaster before the suit escapes, Peter got back up and made the group runaway disassembled.

In Jameson's office Spider-Man confront his accusers and tells them about the Rhino angrily, Jameson presses the security button under his desk and Spider-Man holds him to call of the reward but he escapes from the guards who came in to shoot him.

In Curt Connors lab: Dr Connors felt frightened by the entry of a wanted man to his office (he'd never reacted this way in the comics), Spider-Man had to twist Connors arm for help (a figure of speech). Connor revealed that the suit is alive and it wants to take over its host so he advises Spider-Man to get rid of it.

Before getting it off, Spider-Man had two duels with the Shocker then took the Promethium-X and studied it.

Spider-Man went to help Jameson save his son after Jameson announced his desperate need for him after John was kidnapped from the hospital by Shocker. Spider-Man and Smythe swapped John Jameson for the Promethium-X (later revealed by Smythe that its heat power lasts only for days) in an old church, the Jameson's left the building and Shocker started a battle.

Eddie Brock decided to pay Spider-Man a debt (the black Spider-Man made him lose his job, Eddie followed Jameson to the abandoned Church) but was unable to do so because Shocker wants to get him by orders of KingPin, unfortunately for Shocker; he had to escape. Spider-Man almost killed the Shocker until he regained control, the suit pushed Shocker & Spider-Man saved him.

The Bell started ringing, the suit was in pain and because of its bond with Peter; Peter felt the pain of the alien and got rid of it.
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#VIDEO GAMES:

1. In "Spider-Man the PS1, Sega DC, PC and N64 game" & "Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro" the alien costume is gained after finishing the game once, or you can go to the specials menu-cheats and add a cheat then press finish and you'll get the suit. The suit has the power of unlimited webbing.
2. G.B.A's "Spider-Man: Mysterios Menace" the suit is one of the power ups you gain in a stage, or you go to password in the main menu and insert a code allowing you to wear the suit, but you can never change suits in that game.
3. "Ultimate Spider-Man" for PS2, N.G.C & X-BOX: You wear the artificial black suit after winning all races, getting every landmark, comic & secret tokens, completing 150 city missions and beating every battle mission.

SPIDER-MAN: THE NEW STATUS QUO


Harry Osbourn hates Spider-Man: This is how Harry felt about Spider-Man when he was under the effect of drugs and he thought Spider-Man killed his papa (no pun intended) & after the illusion ghost of Norman Osbourn the second (Harold's father) and the ghost of Spider-Man not wearing his mask after Norman Osbourn the third (Harold & Liz son) was around four years old, Harry never really hated Spider-Man. How the heck did Harry hate Spider-Man all of a sudden.

Peter Parker is not married: We all know how that happened, or at least most of us Spider-Man readers.

Spider-Man is wearing mechanical "Web-Shooters": What did they do to his "Organic Web-Shooters"? How did they magically disappeared?

Peter Parker lives in the house of his old aunt: When did he leave his Chelsea apartment?

Harry Osbourn Wears an earing: Since when?

Harry & Liz divorced?: What happened to their marriage?
As a matter of fact: What exactly happened to Liz Allen Osbourn?

No person on Earth knows the relation between Peter & Spider-Man: What happened to Norman Osbourn? Venom? The symbiote? Anyone has an answer?

MARVEL COMICS OWNS SPIDER-MAN READERS PLENTY OF EXPLANATION. DON'T YOU AGREE!!!

Monday, 24 March 2008

THE DAILY BUGLE

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT NEWSPAPER IN MARVEL UNIVERSE:

Unlike the Daily-Globe, this journalistic building and the crew working in it has entered significantly the other titles especially in DareDevil comics, the most significant Bugle investigative reporter Ben Urich who discovered the secret identity of the masked vigilante by hearing Katherine Paige yelling his name while he is fighting the Hulk in the streets of New York.

The Daily Bugle used to be a newspaper under the management of a guy who gave J.Jonah Jameson a chance to prove himself as a journalist who is against corruption in the country. The details are explored in Web of SPIDER-MAN #052. Out of that issue in the stories of the first appearances of Namor and the original robotic Human Torch Jonah Jameson appeared as a journalist and disapproved on the super powered beings loose in the street's.

Jameson managed to be rich enough to by the "Daily-Bugle" building, as he grew super humans appeared such as the one he despises the most: "The Spectacular Spider-Man". As the Bugle's editor in chief he used his power to get rid of Spider-Man so he would prevent the city to be victimized by the menacing of a new super powered vigilante since he found out that Spider-Man captured the burglar who captured some guy from Queens (as he thinks of Ben Parker). When Peter knew there was a reward for a clear pictures of the Vulture and Spider-Man he decided to have fun with the one guy who keeps sweeping the ground with Spider-Man's reputation.

Since this is an article dedicated to the Daily Bugle, I should write about this building:

1. The first figure of the building, ever since the first time Jonah worked for it, then owned it,
later was bought by Thomas Firehart (Puma) to pay a dept of honor to Spider-Man and sold
back to Jameson with the amount of one dollar. Later after Norman Osbourn returned to life
he bought the Bugle by force but bombed it later while having a fight with Spider-Man in the
"Final Chapter" arc fourth part. Spider-Man supported the building by being in the position of
the falling beam until he placed it back and supported the building by his webbing.

2. After the reconstruction of the building because it had a highly damaged profile in "The Final Chapter" arc, it looked as previewed above. I got this shot from the first Spider-Man 3d video game.

3. The building had a different construction in the Ultimate universe from the rest.

4. This is the figure of the building used as the "Daily Bugle" in the Spider-Man movie. The same
figure is drawn for the building in Spectacular Spider-Man animated series.

Saturday, 22 March 2008

SPIDER SLAYERS JAMESON IS RESPONSIBLE FOR

1. THE SCORPION: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #020:
Recieved an ad for a scientist expert of animal mutations to be pulished, J.Jonah Jameson threw the ad in the trash thinking it's not something worthy of publisising. After throwing the advertise Jonah was thinking of a way to rid the world of the menace in his eyes called Spider-Man he suddenly had the idea to take a raincheck on that scientist.
A private investigator named Mc Gargan was hired by Jameson in issue 019 to see how Peter manages to get exclusive clear shots of the wall crawling menace. In issue 020 he entered Jamesons office to inform him that he couldn't have found any way to reason Peter's shots of Spider-Man. Jameson was pleased at the sight of Gargan to take him to professor Farley Stilwill for the mutation to make Gargan a powerful enemy that can destroy the menace of Spider-Man, for the proper operation Jameson paid each of the two 10,000.
The process was a success, Gargan grew bigger muscles and wore the suit Stilwill built for him to battle Spider-Man. So Jameson took his new hero to a side to tackle Spider-Man while Jameson is in his office tricking Spidey to be tackled by Scorpion, Spider-Man is too wise for Jameson so he left his office quickly to be tackled and defeated by the Scorpion who became a menace because he has strengthened farther. Spider-Man tackled him twice more and won in Jamesons office when Scorpion wanted to kill his creator. Spider-Man got Injured badly and Jameson credited himself for the defeat of Scorpion and thought to himself that Spider-Man is now far more dangerous than he had anticipated originally.

2. THE FIRST ROBOTIC SPIDER-SLAYER: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN v1 #025:
Inspired by Jonah Jameson's editorials against Spider-Man; Spencer Smythe built a robot that
can track the spider abilities in Spider-Man, to prove the well functioning of his spider-seeker Peter held the jar of spider under command of Jameson because Pete wanted to have a laugh on Jonah. The tin foils instead of wrapping the spider jar wrapped Peter because he has stronger spider vibes than the little spider. Spider-Man ruined that Spider-Slayer and Jameson told Smythe to get away from him.
This little event led Spencer to make more spider-slayers, then he later became a criminal who kidnapped John Jameson from the health facility he was kept in to get cured from a sickness that happened to him because of the moonstone to use the Man-Wolf against Jonah Jameson and Spider-Man. Jameson not knowing that Smythe kidnapped his son went to him to build a new spider slayer that managed to capture Spider-Man and attach a bomb to both their wrists that would blow in 24 hours, Spencer died before the end of the period because he was poisoned because of building so many Spider-Slayers in so many years.
This led to many years later the approach of Aliaster Smythe to step in his father shoes in building Spider-Slayers starting from Amazing Spider-Man Annual #19. One of his Spider-Slayers was himself in a robotic exoskeleton.

3. THE HUMAN FLY: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #10:
Professor Harlan Stilwill, the late brother of the late professor Farley Stilwill had J.Jonah
Jameson paying him to build another biological weapon to be more powerful than Spider-Man. When Harlan needed a man to be the project an escaped convict ran in the lab and forced them to have the powers. He had the powers successfully, killed Harlan and took Jonah as his hostage. Once more Spider-Man went to save Jameson from a new menace made (thanks to the fearless publisher) but he failed. S.H.I.E.L.D. agents got the fly.
"The Human Fly" kept being a reoccurring menace until he died by a shot by a gangster in Amazing Spider-Man 278 when Spider-Man was chasing the mysterious Hob-Goblin.

4. MARLA MADISON's SPIDER-SLAYER: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #167:
In Amazing Spider-Man #159 Jonah Jameson went to E.S.U.'s robotic labs to meet Dr. Marla Madison who went to work in E.S.U because of the lack of challenges she can find. Jonah offered her the chance to take the challenge of building a Spider-Slayer that can capture Spider-Man. She completed the devise and Jameson put it to a test drive before releasing it against his so long despised enemy; Spider-Man.
Spider-Man managed to disable it as he did to all the other Spider-Slayers before it. The public learned Jonah's responsibility in this mess and he was exposed in his rival News Paper: "The Daily Globe"

The most ironic thing is that with all the menacing Jonah Jameson is responsible for he still calls Spider-Man a menace. Go figure.