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2018 ***1/2 It's 1986 for some reason, and a team of paranormal investigators are making a big name for themselves all over Scotland. ...
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I’m sure none of you except for JPX knows that I’m a bit of a germ-a-phobic. It’s annoying, but manageable. Though, since I met JPX and list...
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The lyrics to their "Spider-Man" theme song embody the very essence of the mid-seventies:
Spider-Man
Where are you coming from?
Spider-Man
Nobody knows who you are!
...While the 1960s origins of the "Marvel Comics Animation" version of "Spider-Man" are made clear by the "call and response" portion of those lyrics:
[first singer; interrogatory:] "Is he [Spider-Man] strong?"
[second singer, responding:] "Listen, bud...
He's got radioactive blood!"
(Then the first singer looks embarrassed, as if to say: That certainly settles that! Radioactive blood? I feel ridiculous for ever doubting Spider-Man's strength in the first place; I deserve to have been put in my place for asking such a naive question.)
And yet, a decade later, things are not so clear. Spidey now prompts the ultimate yearning query of the troubled 'Seventies: "Where are you coming from?"
His anonymity seems to be a growing concern as the decades progress, although these troubling developments certainly don't interfere with Spidey's ability to harness his strange muteness in the service of teaching young children to read speech balloons.
(No, I'm not stoned.)
Thank you for making me laugh so hard that the people in the waiting room think I'm a lunatic!
Hear hear! I love the insistance that the disturbing anonymity you mention is not his mere identity, but the more unsettling fact that we don't know where he's "coming from," or what his bag is, or what he's into, man.
I was always weirded out that any of the EC cast members might show up in a Spidey comic, heaping further mystery on the man in the suit because it couldn't be any of them.
Remember the one with the Abominable Snowman who was squashing cold things because he was homesick? Right after this kid makes a wish and blows out his birthday candles, the Snowman sits on the kid's birthday cake, thinking the icing will have ice in it. The kid, played by the same guy who played Fargo North, Decoder, says petulantly "that's not what I wished for!"
A moment later Spider-Man shows up and the kid whines "that's not what I wished for, either!"
I love that. I say it myself sometimes.
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