Amazing Spider-Man #669
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scans_dailySo Spider-Island is under way, with New York's inhabitants coming down with spider-powers. Spider-Man and His Amazing Girlfriend Carlie decide to help out.
It's also implied that Carlie Cooper might be on to who Spidey is, even though the mindwipe Spidey sold his soul to Mephisto for had made it so no one would be able to deduce it themselves even if the evidence is staring themselves in the face, but heck, given that Jackal still knows who Spider-Man is, it appears Slott doesn't care anymore. Or maybe Carlie Cooper is so perfect she can see beyond the mindwipe.
Anyway, Shocker now has four extra arms and is in the midst of a robbery.
The Queen? Who is she? Well, she was a Spider-Man villainess from Paul Jenkins' run a while back...she did this:
Which lead to this...
Also, Carlie...it's a good look for you. At least now we have something else besides your glasses to distinguish you from everyone else.
It's also implied that Carlie Cooper might be on to who Spidey is, even though the mindwipe Spidey sold his soul to Mephisto for had made it so no one would be able to deduce it themselves even if the evidence is staring themselves in the face, but heck, given that Jackal still knows who Spider-Man is, it appears Slott doesn't care anymore. Or maybe Carlie Cooper is so perfect she can see beyond the mindwipe.
Anyway, Shocker now has four extra arms and is in the midst of a robbery.
The Queen? Who is she? Well, she was a Spider-Man villainess from Paul Jenkins' run a while back...she did this:
Which lead to this...
Also, Carlie...it's a good look for you. At least now we have something else besides your glasses to distinguish you from everyone else.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-09-14 07:17 pm (UTC)There aren't many species that work together, so I never bothered to find out.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:36 pm (UTC)I dunno, if they did I'd never really considered collective web building the same as the internal hierarchies and the whole loss of individual sense of survival in favor of the colony that the insects who build those have. It's similar, maybe, not exactly the same thing.
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Date: 2011-09-14 10:14 pm (UTC)A "clutter" or "cluster." :-)
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:46 pm (UTC)Spider have colonies, too.
http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc99/5_8_99/bob2.htm
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Date: 2011-09-14 08:03 pm (UTC)And the whole colony comes before anything, I haven't heard of that behavior in spiders.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:07 pm (UTC)Seriously, what was wrong this one?
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:17 pm (UTC)Wait, that's Dr. D. He has no problems with that.
Anyway, if you're going to out ham Manhatten, you can't just go around in a stylish black cocktail dress.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:32 pm (UTC)Ugh, that is what you get when you try to be economical about eeevil, it just doesn't work. But what do you know? You just break my big -inators every week. Never a thought for the effort real evil needs these days. I used to hear stories of agents who appreaciated all the death traps, but nooooo, you have to confuse me with the BLUE GUY!
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Date: 2011-09-14 10:25 pm (UTC)However, we know from previews of upcoming covers that she does get them; but considering the particular emphasis on her lack of them now, along with Reed also stating that only mutants and those already having super powers are immune, it seems likely that MJ not only already has powers but may have had them BEFORE Spider-Island and may end up keeping them afterwards.
Why, you might ask? Well, remember during One Moment in Time the mindwipe Strange used was partly delivered by Tony Stark's Extremis nanovirus. And for a brief moment, Peter was outside of the protective bubble when he went to get Mary Jane, thus they were both exposed to Extremis. What if the nanovirus copied and transferred Peter's powers into Mary Jane? The only reason why she hasn't manifested them until now is because, like Peter during the Other, it requires physical trauma to activate them. This would also explain how Peter lost his organic webbing and the additional powers he got from The Other, as well.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:15 pm (UTC)Ah, but you fail to see the brilliant irony: Carlie will look just as freakish as all the others, so we will STILL have to use her glasses as only distinguishing feature.
I also like Herman's freakish new appearence. Always had place in my heart for the guy.
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Date: 2011-09-14 09:19 pm (UTC)Even funnier is his belief that the only problem people have with her is that she's not Mary Jane. Not that I'd be 100% supportive with it, but Michelle Gonzalez or Carol Danvers (both who were played with as being Pete's new girlfriend post-OMD) would have been preferable to this wreck.
Granted, Michelle had suffered through some horrific writing and unpleasant storylines but her character was still salvageable, whereas Carlie is beyond hope at this point.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:18 pm (UTC)(Assuming that was really, ah, him who'd become that thing.)
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:20 pm (UTC)Huh.
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:54 pm (UTC)I still wish he'd have a bigger role in this though.
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Date: 2011-09-14 09:15 pm (UTC)Just get this event over with and move on already
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Date: 2011-09-15 02:36 am (UTC)I should feel bad about this, but I don't. I was just imagining she'd probably think she's so awesome she could tell Cap how to fight.
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Date: 2011-09-15 01:49 am (UTC)Do you think she'll have black hair and a round face next time?
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Date: 2011-09-15 03:07 am (UTC)I took it with a grain of salt but knowing how the Spider-Man stories are going I wouldn't rule it out either you know.
Well I'm glad that wasn't the case anyway.
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Date: 2011-09-16 06:28 am (UTC)At least, I assume that that random metal stick across the bridge of her nose is supposed to be glasses, even though as shown in Page 1 Panel 3 they're not built that way.
I'M SO CONFOOSED.