Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Daily Spider-Man - Today's Edition: Spidey wastes precious ass-kicking time for the sake of his "other" job

5 comments:

JPX said...

I'm not sure that anyone is following this story, but isn't it time that Stan Lee moves into the 21st century and give Peter Parker a digital camera? Also, wouldn't a million people be taking photos of these epic battles? I don't really see Peter Parker's pictures as being all that necessary these days. Any time Spider-Man makes an appearance in NYC I'm sure photos would be taken and video would be shot. The Daily Bugle would hardly have an "exclusive".

Octopunk said...

Too right! There'd be about ten cell phone movies shot and emailed to the Bugle days before Peter Parker got his envelope from the local photo lab.

Again: that's why the Ultimate Marvel Universe rocks. In it, Peter's photos of Spidey are roundly rejected, but then he winds up working on maintaining the website because none of the grownups know how to do it.

I've totally been following this story; it's hilarious. It seems like the 60's version of Spidey is alive and kicking in this ridiculous format.

50PageMcGee said...

speaking of ultimate spidey, while i was on the road a few years back, i tried to keep up with all of the titles i was reading at the time, hitting up comic stores wherever i could. i missed a bunch of weeks here and there.

in austin, tx i spotted a new copy of ultimate spidey and noticed that i had missed an issue. i thought, "eh, it's one issue. how much could i have missed"

turns out that one issue was the one gwen stacey died.

i point this out because i stopped taking the time to read these strips. i think if i come back to it on saturday, i'll only be about 4 minutes of action time behind and i can probably guess what happened in that time.

Johnny Sweatpants said...

I love that Dr. Octopus actually asks "So why are you waiting for me over there?"

Octopunk said...

Me too! I've been mulling this over today and actually can't believe Spidey's behavior here. What if Doc Oc decides to be a little extra evil and kill some old lady while His Nibs is waiting "over there?" Then how you gonna feel, web head?

More to the point, isn't this a sure fire way to reveal one's secret identity? Doc Oc will get his Bugle in jail and think "Man, that Peter Parker can really set up a shot... ohhhhh."

It also makes me wonder how many cameras Spidey has left webbed to the side of buildings. You know, those times he got knocked out and carried off.

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