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Marvel is dumb. Spider-Man gets organic webshooters.
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karasu said:
I agree, that reasoning is pretty lame...you can't ever put the mainstream above the core audience, and whether they or not it's what it sounds like they're doing. But I still don't care...chances are we would've gone another ten years without the web carts being an integral part of any story, and no one would've given a damn. I just wanna see how this is explained though...cause if people think the science behind the web carts are bad, this should take the biscuit. :lol
nomoment said:
God damn, that's just fucked up. What the hell did Peter Parker ever do to you? Why are you wanting to fuck this guy's life up, and getting pissed when an actual good thing happens to him like this? He just saved a bunch of money on transportation costs. Don't come crying to me about raising gas prices when the guy had to spend hundreds of dolars to websling across town. I personally am happy for him that he doesn't have to shell out the cash.
Hell, you were probably ecstatic when Gwen Stacy died, weren't you?!
DonasaurusRex
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I have to ask is this change actually making anything better? Is it actually needed? I cant see why it is, the editor said himself said the webshooters had become a non issue , so why fuck with them and replace them with something else that will become a non issue. As a spiderman fan i am dissappointed yet i know it will become a thing of the past in a few issues. Leaving me puzzled why they bothered to waste the ink on it in the first place. If anything the comics these days are getting away from peter parker the genius and it more about peter parker todays guest on The View just a total puss. I will miss the many different variations of webbing Peter would devise to fit the situations he faced. It seems like they are limiting his character, his webbing while it may not be a big topic NOW with the current staff has always been a core part of the character. I cant say I like this.
Manabanana
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I'm still trying to figure out why givng an extra organ to a character that can climb walls using hairs on his hands, dive through the air without asphyxiating or passing out, has extreme ESP, and can get hit by a truck/buried/shot/electrocuted with no lasting damage sounds "unnatural" or "wrong" to you people
Jesus, who cares? Fanboys will still buy it anyway, and they can still have all the ridiculously lame plot contrivances as before. If you sit around spitting all day, your mouth will dry out. If you have sex 25 times in a day, eventually you'll run out of semen and just have dry orgasms. I don't see why an "organic" source of webbing would be infinite in supply.
I agree that the change isn't really necessary (except that it always seemed stupid for Peter to have made this amazing thing and never patented it or offered it up for use in the free market).....but I don't see how it fucks everything up.
I agree that the change isn't really necessary (except that it always seemed stupid for Peter to have made this amazing thing and never patented it or offered it up for use in the free market).....but I don't see how it fucks everything up.
border said:
Why would he do that, if hes using it as spider-man? I think people would figure it out. Anyway, this is kinda dumb and its completely uneeded cause it wont add to the character in any way or be of any use to the story. Just changing the character to be more like the one in the shitty movies.
He's the only photographer who takes pictures of Spider-Man, and yet nobody is able to put together that hum-dinger of a puzzle. Marvel's New Yorkers are stupid....and so is Parker if he whines about making the rent every month when he's sitting on a goldmine of an invention. The contradiction doesn't destroy the character or anything, I always just thought it was a little sillySriram said:
karasu
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[UOTE=]I'm still trying to figure out why givng an extra organ to a character that can climb walls using hairs on his hands, dive through the air without asphyxiating or passing out, has extreme ESP, and can get hit by a truck/buried/shot/electrocuted with no lasting damage sounds "unnatural" or "wrong" to you people[/QUOTE]
It's wrong like giving Superman ice vision, Indiana Jones a Kangol, or Batman wings. I have a hard time understanding what's so hard to 'get' about it. If some are apathetic about it, ok. But it should be common sense that some will care about a major change like this. Jesus, for fourty years the dude has used web shooters, now he magically has organic webbing. It's a little wtf'ish. I always liked how he couldn't inately do everything a spider can. Since his powers were an accident, I like how he was somewhat limited. He didn't have 8 eyes or arms or webs and shite like he was a well planned experiment. It made things somewhat unpredictable. Most Classic Marvel characters that get their powers by accident also get a major downside/limitation. Spiderman's downside was the further mutation into a giant Spider, but his limitation is gone now.
It's wrong like giving Superman ice vision, Indiana Jones a Kangol, or Batman wings. I have a hard time understanding what's so hard to 'get' about it. If some are apathetic about it, ok. But it should be common sense that some will care about a major change like this. Jesus, for fourty years the dude has used web shooters, now he magically has organic webbing. It's a little wtf'ish. I always liked how he couldn't inately do everything a spider can. Since his powers were an accident, I like how he was somewhat limited. He didn't have 8 eyes or arms or webs and shite like he was a well planned experiment. It made things somewhat unpredictable. Most Classic Marvel characters that get their powers by accident also get a major downside/limitation. Spiderman's downside was the further mutation into a giant Spider, but his limitation is gone now.
First X-Men, now Spidey. Trying to tarnish Gwen to make way for MJ (the movie's love interest) and now changing his web shooters. I kinda understand why you would want to change the story/origins when transitioning to movie to fit the regular movie going audiences, but why change the comic? This will just alienate regular readers and it won't really draw any new readers. It's not like Joe Schmo gives a shit about comics, Gwen Stacy, or where Spider-Man's webs come from. The average fanboy does, though. Stupid moves on Marvel's part (as usual).
evil solrac v3.0
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DC WINS!!! DC WINS!!!!
I was rooting through some old comics and flipped through Superman vs Spiderman II. In it, Spidey and Supes team up against Doom and Parasite (vs?!). When Parasite steals Spiderman's abilities, he still makes note that his shooters remain an unstolen advantage.
W/ organic shooters, would they get stolen by people like Rogue? And what about that point in the article, would Pete's DNA be in the webbing?
W/ organic shooters, would they get stolen by people like Rogue? And what about that point in the article, would Pete's DNA be in the webbing?
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