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scans_dailyFirst up is Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, where we meet the new Ultimate Scorpion. I say "new" because we already met one before and he was a genetically modified clone of Peter Parker.
...whaaaa?
I mean, I'm all for more realistic redesigns, but really? Why not just make him a new character entirely?
Finally, over in Amazing Spider-Man #682, we're getting "The Next Big Spider-Man Event", titled "The Ends of the Earth" featuring none other than the dying Dr. Octopus.
The solicitation reads "The Doc Ock Story You’ve Waited 50 Years For! Doctor Otto Octavius Holds The Entire Earth Hostage With His Dying Breath. What Price Will Spider-Man Have To Pay To Buy The Whole World One More Day?" (emphasis mine)
This whole "Dr. Octopus is dying" storyline has been going on for far too long and has gone nowhere, so I'm happy to see it reach its conclusion. Because really, we all know that Marvel wouldn't be stupid enough to kill of Dr. Octopus, and if they do, it's only a matter of time before he comes back. At this point blowing off your head with a shotgun or getting torn in half in space isn't enough to kill you.
One good thing is hopefully this will be the end of the ridiculous 'Gimp Ock' look that he's been touting for the last couple of years.
...whaaaa?
I mean, I'm all for more realistic redesigns, but really? Why not just make him a new character entirely?
Finally, over in Amazing Spider-Man #682, we're getting "The Next Big Spider-Man Event", titled "The Ends of the Earth" featuring none other than the dying Dr. Octopus.
The solicitation reads "The Doc Ock Story You’ve Waited 50 Years For! Doctor Otto Octavius Holds The Entire Earth Hostage With His Dying Breath. What Price Will Spider-Man Have To Pay To Buy The Whole World One More Day?" (emphasis mine)
This whole "Dr. Octopus is dying" storyline has been going on for far too long and has gone nowhere, so I'm happy to see it reach its conclusion. Because really, we all know that Marvel wouldn't be stupid enough to kill of Dr. Octopus, and if they do, it's only a matter of time before he comes back. At this point blowing off your head with a shotgun or getting torn in half in space isn't enough to kill you.
One good thing is hopefully this will be the end of the ridiculous 'Gimp Ock' look that he's been touting for the last couple of years.
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Date: 2011-12-20 06:18 pm (UTC)"What Price Will Spider-Man Have To Pay To Buy The Whole World One More Day?"
...Nah, too easy.
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Date: 2011-12-20 08:28 pm (UTC)"It is nice that Andrews is starting to draw Miles like a 13 year-old now."
' This actually looks like the very first (and only?) time this new Spidey actually looked his 13 y.o. age!
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Date: 2011-12-20 07:46 pm (UTC)Cue the LeBron jokes
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Date: 2011-12-20 06:44 pm (UTC)It's a name certainly more suited to his chain's end- thing looks like he carved it off of one of the various monsters that've menaced Ultimate NY (which would be pretty badass)..
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Date: 2011-12-20 06:54 pm (UTC)Surely the best possible way for Marvel to bring back its vanished readers is to remind them yet again of the shitty story that kicked off this era of shitty comics and shrinking sales.
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Date: 2011-12-20 07:02 pm (UTC)And hasn't Doctor Octopus been dying since the '90s? The last time I followed Spider-Man with attention was during the early stages of the Clone Saga, and the man was dying there.
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Date: 2011-12-20 07:13 pm (UTC)So yeah; Seen it, Marvel!
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Date: 2011-12-20 08:30 pm (UTC)And also, wasn't Ock cured at that time, like you said, when he came back? Did he get worse or the next writers just forgot all about it?
Also, not liking that new Scorpion, not one bit.
Now, if they'd call him "Ultimate Kraven" (was he already Ultimat-ified? I can never keep track of these things) or simply an all new character...
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Date: 2011-12-20 08:38 pm (UTC)Again, I don't think Doc Ock was ever dying from a fatal illness prior to this. He died when Kaine snapped his neck and then ninjas resurrected him, but he was never 'sick'.
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Date: 2011-12-20 09:24 pm (UTC)They didn't go with "the originally radiation accident that initially fused his harness to his spine has been slowly killing him, like Luthor's Kryptonite ring"?
(And if "lots of punches to the head" is the cause, why don't a lot more superheroes & supervillains have it?)
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Date: 2011-12-20 09:36 pm (UTC)Funny thing is, since he was resurrected, he installed some sort of force field around his head to prevent getting punched there. Guess he forgot to turn it on.
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Date: 2011-12-20 09:26 pm (UTC)I hope he at least has some super-strength to explain why Spidey doesn't just break out of the hold (or the chain's some super-alloy to explain why he can't break it).
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