Spiderman arrived
So, my JMS written Amazing Spiderman collections finally arrived, which kept me happy for the day.
First impressions:
- JMS does love his manipulative mentor figures; does he ever. Thankfully, this one is Kosh and not Lorien (i.e. well-
written)!
- and he grounds the superhero thing in social realness; Peter, as High School teacher, dealing with homeless kids,
drug addicts, and vile assistants
- Aunt May rules
- MJ doesn't exactly come to more life for me here than she did in the movies, but she has an excellent menta scene re: being the love interest (and methinks that whole Lobsterman movie thing, and the fact that the director ordered MJ to wear lingerie in her scenes, as a dig in the direction of Sam Raimi
- that 9/11 story is heartbreaking, all the more so because of hindsight and the fact that "we reject" both kinds of fundamentalists, the Christian and the Muslim ones, didn't come true
- Anansi! Must read American Gods again
- and I know it was awful for poor Peter, but I was rolling on the floor when Shatra, aka Sharon, the evil spider-eating waspwoman, used her ultimate weapon to destroy him - going to the media and dishing invented dirt on Peter's sex life. Now why didn't other supervillains think of that before?
Now I have to find a way to get Jeremiah. And I've still a certain mental image in my mind. Sabine101 and hobsonphile know whereof I speak, and kathyh ought to, because she suggested it in the first place...
First impressions:
- JMS does love his manipulative mentor figures; does he ever. Thankfully, this one is Kosh and not Lorien (i.e. well-
written)!
- and he grounds the superhero thing in social realness; Peter, as High School teacher, dealing with homeless kids,
drug addicts, and vile assistants
- Aunt May rules
- MJ doesn't exactly come to more life for me here than she did in the movies, but she has an excellent menta scene re: being the love interest (and methinks that whole Lobsterman movie thing, and the fact that the director ordered MJ to wear lingerie in her scenes, as a dig in the direction of Sam Raimi
- that 9/11 story is heartbreaking, all the more so because of hindsight and the fact that "we reject" both kinds of fundamentalists, the Christian and the Muslim ones, didn't come true
- Anansi! Must read American Gods again
- and I know it was awful for poor Peter, but I was rolling on the floor when Shatra, aka Sharon, the evil spider-eating waspwoman, used her ultimate weapon to destroy him - going to the media and dishing invented dirt on Peter's sex life. Now why didn't other supervillains think of that before?
Now I have to find a way to get Jeremiah. And I've still a certain mental image in my mind. Sabine101 and hobsonphile know whereof I speak, and kathyh ought to, because she suggested it in the first place...