More proof that Stan's the Man

[cyberghostface]

 This is Sunday's comic from the Spider-Man newspaper strip.

Comments

[sigmund_droid]

This shouldn't cause me physical pain, but it does.

OOONNNNNNEEEE MMOOOOORRREEE DAAAYYYY! *on knees*

[sherkahn]

Ah... the TRUE Peter Parker... miss this guy.

[baxter2814]

Oh yes. Stan, my man. Give me the means to engage myself in a moment of sweet self-delusion.

[amaniwolf]

Oh Stan....how i've missed this. *sniff*

[screamsheet.wordpress.com]

It's pretty amazing to me that even with a writing style that never totally left the Silver Age, Stan Lee's still got it and is better than most other writers in the industry today.

[crabby_lioness]

Stan's stories always had solid relationships anchoring his characters. No matter how bad the angst got, you knew they'd do the work to pull through.

[funbox]

I just don't get why writers these day don't write stories of total and glorious truimph in the face of odds, where theres no angsting afterwards

[crabby_lioness]

They did. It was called the Golden Age.

The Silver Age stories, Stan's especially were full of angst, but the characters had the balls to work their way through the angst. Wimping out in the face of angst is for cowards.

[heckfire]

And Quesada.

[mrstatham]

Happily married Pete and MJ, non-ruined freakish Doc Ock, everything's right with the world.

So.. Someone please find me the opposite of the Picard 'WTF is this shit?' icon.

[icon_uk]

At very short notice, how about

[mrstatham]

Yes!! Yess! To quote Mr Connery "Yuerr the man now dawwg!"

[ninjapeps]

how about this?

[cypherfdp]

What once was...

[joeyconqueso]

The Once and Future OTP

[icon_uk]

"By Natures hand, by craft, by art,
What once was one, now fly apart!"

Cindarr's Spell of Destruction from Visionaries

[aaron_bourque]

Everybody?

One.

Two.

Three.

SQUEE!

[flash_fan]

Stan should kick down the doors at Marvel and say "Gimmie' mah' book back."

[endis_ni]

Pah! Stan Lee has no need to kick anything! Verily the doors at the Marvel building hurl themselves aside at his very approach!

[icon_uk]

In my minds eye that is so easy to imagine happening, and so RIGHT somehow! :)

[crabby_lioness]

WORD

[filkertom]

No, no, no. A rich cast of characters... fascinating relationships... great dialogue... intricate and entertaining stories... THIS MUST NOT BE!

< / Bendis & Quesada and whoever else was involved in OMD/BND >

And how can you not love the tag line? "Hey, Spidey -- don't forget about the VAMPIRE!"

[speedingtortoise]

I could be wrong, but I didn't think that Bendis was involved in OMD or BND

In fact, if I remember correctly, he is a staunch Peter/MJ shipper

But I could be wrong

[cyberghostface]

When Wizard asked different comics creators whether or not they were in favor of the marriage Bendis was one of the few to say yes.

[filkertom]

Whoops! Speeding Tortoise Johnson is right. My bad.

[speedingtortoise]

No worries!
I get comic facts mixed up all the time

: )

[mrstatham]

It's an easy enough mistake to make. Given the stuff he's pushed aside in the past, like wholesale retconning in a history for Jess Jones into the MU, it's always surprising to learn he's in favour of stuff like the Spidey marriage.

[filkertom]

I tell ya. It's pretty sad when you wonder and worry about the fates of your favorite characters, not because of the events in the comics, but because of the personality quirks of the creative team.

[blackruzsa]

Let us pause for a moment and revel in the love that is Stan.

On a related note, my Sunday comics also feature classic "The Phantom", which make me happy in ways new!Phantom with his grittier style and WTF PAINT COSTUME in the first few issues could not.

[bradhanon]

Help me out here, folks: what is "hot chocolate" code for?

[speedingtortoise]

Oral sex?

. . . or maybe I'm just a huge perv for thinking that XD

[sailorlibra]

According to Urban Dictionary, either:

1. When a person chews a Hershey's Kiss without swallowing; the other then kisses deeply, licking the chocolate off the tongue.

OR

2. When you put Tabasco sauce on your tongue, then proceed to lick another person's asshole.

[heckfire]

...call me a prude, but I'm betting that Peter and MJ are more into the former than the latter.

[retro_nouveau]

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[sailorlibra]

sailorlibra squealed in delight and then started thinking dark thoughts about 616!Spider-Man.

[baxter2814]

Your icon is made out of the finest swiss chocolate with a sweet creamy center of awesome.

[proteus_lives]

STAN LEE IS MY MASTER NOW.

[heckfire]

OFFICIALLY FORGIVEN FOR "THE GOVERNATOR" AND "THE BACKSTREET PROJECT."

...what? I actually kinda liked "Stripperella."

[his_spiffynesss]

I presume all those really horrible Hollywood inspired projects are just him shilling his name and he does little more than write some two page outline, hands it off to the rest of the team, and gets paid a ridiculous amount of money for next to no actual work.

Sounds like a sweet deal if you can get it.

[icon_uk]

And that ladies and gentlemen of current Marvel Editorial, is how you do it.

[recognitions]

Not to rain on the parade, but do you suppose that cabdriver at all wonders what Peter means by "web-swinging"?

[baxter2814]

It's a little known fact that all the cabdrivers of 616 New York City are so hyperexposed to nonstop what-the-hellery that they are incapable of grasping the concept of "weird" anymore.

[speedingtortoise]

I think that can be said for New York cabdrivers in real life too

[fionnualad.wordpress.com]

Oh, Stan. So much love.

I always wanted him to be my third Grandpa.