In The Mind of Spider-Plush

  Happy Birthday Peter Parker!  In The Amazing Spider-Man #500, our wonderful Amazing Spectacular Petey Parkson goes through time while doing a team up with Doctor Strange. JMS wrote this story and I have lot of respect for the dude and his run. I also feel like more adaptations should take aspects from his run. Yes, I am aware that Eddie did an article on this issue as well, but I felt like it would be fun to give my short thoughts on it. This story is GREAT! We see Peter look back at and see some of his past adventures and how he's grown from them. This includes his encounters with villains like Electro, Sandman, and Lizard, the death of Gwen Stacy, that one encounter with Hulk in a cave (weird that was the issue where Goblin first appeared), and all the way back to when he first got bit by the spider! We also got to see a future where he's older and still fighting as Spider-Man. The Last Stand suit is pretty neat tbh I should wear it for Halloween.  I put the Tobey ima...

Today is my 18th birthday, but I thought I'd look at a more important man's birthday. Aw, man, I feel JUST like Max Dillon right before he fell into a pool with electric eels! 97 days ago, I asked everyone what they wanted me to review on this site for a special occasion, the poll winner was Amazing Spider-Man #500 by J. Michael Straczynski and John Romita Jr. from all the way back in 2003. However, I feel like I need to review the issues that led up to this. But do not worry, I made the recaps and reviews as short as possible. This is The Amazing Spider-Man: Happy Birthday by JMS and JRJR. Issue 57. This is the cover, by artist Tony Harris, who drew the cover of the next issue, and issue 501. Shows Spidey swinging by the AMERICAN flag while a bunch of New Yorkers watch.  There is some red lightning, Spidey's got to see what's going on... What the hell is going on? Spidey, The Fantastic Four and Thor are fighting against some strange creatures from another dimension, th...

Spidey, J. Michael Straczynski, and John Romita Jr. have done it again! Here I am, looking at the JMS Spider-Man run again.... But before that, I want to give my 2 cents on a debate that has been going on for decades... Are comic books sexist? Yes, definitely. Anyway, here is issue 51 of The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) This is the cover by J. Scott Campbell, it looks alright, there is one small oversight... Well, there's plenty I could mention, but look at Spidey in the background, either Spidey is really tall or that building is really small. That being said, composition-wise, I like this cover, after all the covers that are just Spider-Man doing a cool pose, it's kinda refreshing to see something different for a change.  Okay, the story is titled "Digger", clearly the plot is about Spider-Man & Mary Jane buying shovels and defiling graves. PROLOGUE: Way back in 1957, a gamma bomb went off, a guy was accidentally caught in the blast and is now a big green rage mo...

Older, tall, muscular, handsome Edward found a way to read issues 46 to 58 of The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2). Right now, it's time for issues 46 to 50. by J. Michael Straczynski again, and John Romita Jr. Again. First off, is issue 46 (DUH!), released on December of 2002. This may look like your regular-ass Spider-Man cover, and it is, but this is drawn by Frank Cho. We need to address this artist. See, this cover is normal, but EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. there is a textless variant, he takes his time to make a cover featuring a female superheroine's ass or tits, usually with a funny joke and Spider-Gwen in the background saying "OUTRAGE!". This guy is a GOONER. Let's begin. Spidey is pondering about how he tried to get MJ back and failed. And then tried to stop Doc Ock and also failed. He goes to sleep, only to have a weird dream about what happened in the astral plane a few issues ago. It's okay, Peter, dreams do not actually mean anything, I once dreamed that th...

Aw man, I am so looking forward to this. Believe it or not, I don't need Wikipedia to tell you the story of how the Hulk was created. Stan Lee says he was actually inspired by monster movies, films like Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he wanted the hero and villain to be one in the same, and he also wanted to show that the monster was actually misunderstood. So, just like with pretty much everything, he asked Jack Kirby to do everything while he added words and took 70% of the credit. So, anyway, The Incredible Hulk #1. Written by Stan Lee, drawn by Jack Kirby. The cover features the Hulk towering over Bruce Banner, look, he's huge! Everyone is just terrified of him, they're all yellow for some reason. "The strangest man of all time!!" You can tell this comic released before I was born. "Fantasy as you like it!" Gee wiz! "Is he man or monster? Or... is he both?" One thing that was always clear to me, even as a child, is that the Hulk ...