In The Mind of Spider-Plush

Waaaaaayyyy back in 2023, I reviewed Amazing Fantasy #15. It was a good review... Well, the second time I reviewed it, anyway. Well, now it's time to look at the first 3 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 1). Spider-Man's first story was a huge success, everyone wanted to see more of this character, Marvel's then editor Martin Goodman entered Stan Lee's office saying "Stan! Don't you remember that Spider-Man character we both liked so much? Why don't we give him his own series!" Though true cool Spider-Man fans would know that Martin HATED the idea of Spider-Man, and he only started liking it after he started seeing cash from it. Anyway, they had already made stories for Amazing Fantasy 16, 17, 18 and 19, but since the series was canceled, they reused them for issues 1 and 2 of a brand-new series titled... You know what it's called.  But before we get to the review, let's talk about the Marvel Method because I don't know when I'm go...

Originally submitted for an application for SpiderFan.org The Amazing Spider-Man: Annual #35 Hello, Jonathan Couper from SpiderFan.org, this is my application, using a format that I am not actually used to. Background: Jackpot was introduced during the Brand New Day era, she was mysterious, and people used to think she was Mary Jane, because she had red hair, and she was literally named after the "You just hit the jackpot" line. This issue is about her.  Story: "A Tale Of Two Jackpots" by Marc Guggenheim and Mike McKone. The cover shows Spidey towering over this Jackpot character. I suppose it's alright The story itself greets us with a splashpage showing a few mysterious characters like Jackpot, Blindside, and this guy named Mogul, whose name is actually Walter Declun, he's actually the CEO of Damage Control.  Chapter One: The past as prologue, aka a retelling of events from issue 551, which was reviewed by someone else way back in 2008. In this retelling, ...

Today we're looking at Marvel Ruins... What a weird title, what DOESN'T Marvel Ruin? Anyway, Marvel Ruins is part of an imprint titled "Alterniverse", which was about.... Alternate universes. This is obviously inspired by the book "Marvels" by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, however while that one was about exploring the many marvelous characters, this one is about the horrible things that could've happened to them. So, here's Tales Of The Marvels: Ruins by Warren Ellis, Cliff Nielsen and Terese Nielsen. The cover shows Phil Sheldon, the reporter from Marvels, walking around the various corpses and bodies of Marvel superheroes like Spider-Man, Kitty Pryde, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Scarlet Witch. Now I know what to recreate with all my action figures! I just need to find the "Old man with an eyepatch" figure from the latest Marvel Legends line.  The story begins with Phil witnessing how the Avengers Quinjet blew up. They died. Prepare...

They can't all be winners. I think it's time to look at the last 5 issues of the West Coast Avengers by Kelly Thompson, Daniele DI Nicuolo, Gang Hyuk Lim, Moy Rodriguez and Stefano Caselli. LAST TIMES: Something to do with giant furries, something to do with Jimmy Kimmel, and then Hawkeye and America Chavez died from a kiss. Gwen and Quentin died from probably electrocution, I don't remember. Kate didn't die and found her mother. Oh, and they went to the fair. The show must go on. The cover shows the SHITHEADS about to attack the silhouette of... What, do you think I know? First page is a memorial for Stan Lee. Y'know, regardless of what I think of the guy, I still think it was pretty sad seeing him be mistreated during his last few years, it's heartbreaking. The story itself begins with the villains of this issue, Madame Masque, M.O.D.O.K., The Eel, and Satana Hellstrom all celebrating the fact that they finally captured the WCA... But, where's Kate? She...

Time to look at a childhood classic. I explained the story of these movies back in the Spider-Man Day Special, but I'm gonna do that again... BUT WORSE this time. I'm also going to actually review the movies this time, and I'll use my 100-point review system. The Amazing Spider-Man, a comic book from the 60's that instantly became a worldwide phenomenon and a classic story. But comics don't move! I want to see Spidey actually moving and I'm sick of having to take hallucinogenic substances for that to happen! I could watch the cartoons, but I believe animation ISN'T cinema... And I also HATE the Electric Company, whatever shall I do? Those guys at Cannon Films are making a Spider-Man movie? Wow, I wanna know what else they made!... Masters of The Universe and Superman IV... Well, maybe the Spider-Man movie will be good? What do they have planned? A monster movie about a man-spider? That's... Oh... Jim Cameron? Legendary filmmaker behind Terminator and Tit...

Today I'm looking at the last episode of the 1967 Spider-Man TV show, since I think it's worth looking at. I just gotta watch it first. It looks like the guys at Krantz films (aka Grantray-Lawrence Animation) were aware of this being the last Spider-Man episode, because it sure feels like one, but it also doesn't feel like one.  Back in 1966, Marvel teamed up with Grantray-Lawrence to produce the very first motion comics based on their superheroes. But they decided to make Spider-Man its own separate TV show. Y'know, I think that's very neat because Spider-Man is way cooler than whoever those guys were, like, I could ask my mom if she knows Spider-Man, and she'd say yes because she used to purchase large amounts of merchandise for me as a kid, but if I asked her who Namor was, she'd be pretty fucking confused.  This show had lots of characters from the comics and even some original characters like Dr. Noah Boddy... Uhm... He's the most memorable one for ...

This is AVENGERS 500! The beginning of a big storyline called "Disassembled". It looks promising enough. I only know about this story because of 2 different things. 1 is that I opened a Linkara video a few days ago, he was reviewing this comic, and he was like "OMG THIS COMIC SUCKS AAAA". Which is how all of his videos go nowadays, c'mon, cheer up. 2nd is the Spectacular Spider-Man storyline called "Changes", because it was somehow tied to this event.  AVENGERS: DISASSEMBLED. By Brian Michael Bendis and David Finch. How bad could this be?  First off, this storyline had a lot of tie-ins across various titles. Here is the list: - Iron Man. He does... Uhm... No clue - Thor. He fights Ragnarok. - Captain America. No clue. But Falcon was there - Fantastic Four. They fight the FRIGTFUL four- - The Spectacular Spider-Man. We'll get to this later. Right now, it's time to look at part 1 of CHAOS.  The cover looks okay, the Avengers are all rushing into ...

Remastered and sorta remade. Originally meant to be published on Wix, though never finished due to prioritizing other work. Remember the 60's? You're reading this shit, of course you don't. The 60's were a great time for comic books. You saw a comic book in the newsstands, you saw only one cover and you just had to deal with it.  Now, this was pretty much the standard from 19-whenever-comics-were-invented, but up until the 1990's, something strange occurred. You see, comics like the first appearances of Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man started to rocket in value because 1, quantities were limited (Less than 100 copies of Action Comics exist nowadays) and because they were ICONIC characters that were now parts of pop culture... People and companies took the wrong idea from this. See, the people of the world thought that if you took any comic book and just kept it for a few years, then it would become valuable. So, companies like Marvel and DC started to introduce new...