Spider-Man's Old Sidekick

[auggie18]

It doesn't seem like a lot of people like Spider-Man's new sidekick, Alpha. But he isn't the first Spidekick. Let's look at one, um, unforgettable other.






Venom, let go of Spidey's crotch.
 

Comments

[jjgalahad]

Aw. I thought this post was gonna be about Frog-Man. :P

[horselover107]

As did I.

[auggie18]

If I find any scans of Frog-Man grabbing Spidey's crotch, I will be sure to post them.

[icon_uk]

Ditto!

[shadowpsykie]

Venom, let go of Spidey's crotch.

Venom and peter were once VERY CLOSE... he misses the old intimacy :D
also Venom is BIG!.... Urmm... i mean his Size... ummm his BODY size....

crap... i'll be in my bunk...

[blackruzsa]

Does anyone still remember that really really old post about Venom/Spidey porn? Here on s_d?
Because I do.
Boy, do I remember that.

[leoboiko]

"Venom, let go of Spidey's crotch. "

why would anyone say that?

[silverhammerman]

I'd read it. There's no way it could be as boring as Alpha is shaping up to be.

[mrstatham]

I just like the way Venom seems to be treating his fucking stupid early 90's pitch as the tagline for a film. Because turning the ultimate Anti-Spider-Man into a quasi-heroic figure was SUCH a good move.

Honestly, you could've kept things nice and simple with just Venom. No other symbiotes, just him as an anti-Peter and and Anti-Spidey.

[icon_uk]

As Marvel put it in their own "Year in Review" - "1992: The year Superman was killed, and Venom starred in three miniseries"

[crinos]

Lethal Protectors.... Lethal Protectors everywhere.

Seriously, no one else saw this?

[skemono]

The whole Alpha thing reminds me mostly of this one Spider-Man comic I read years ago. There was some new wanna-be superhero in it who kept ignoring everything Spider-Man said while constantly trying to get Spider-Man to show him the ropes. He had some sort of generic supersuit that let him do the usual things: fly, shoot energy beams, I think he had a magnetic belt buckle that he used to disarm crooks?

The only things I really remember are I think the suit had a malfunction and needed to reboot in the middle of a fight; also, at one point a baby fell out a window (as I recall, due to the magnetic belt buckle yanking the guy holding it, causing him to drop it out the window). Spider-Man had to jump out and use his webbing to catch it, and was wondering whether this would cause the guy to reflect on responsibility and how his actions could endanger others... and for a moment it looked like he would, but then he went right back to his usual persona. Also the issue ended I think with him gloryhounding during a TV interview.

Anyone remember who that guy was or what happened to him?

[eyz]

Didn't he also happen to have a skateboard, and aren't you thinking about Rocket Racer?




Because I remember him trying to be a superhero (though more as a partner in crime than a sidekick)

[skemono]

Probably not? I don't recall any skateboard, and I think the guy was white.

Also, this would've probably been during the '90s.

[skemono]

Finally found him! It was Bobster! (Yes, that was his superhero name. Bobster.)

[angelophile]

What, no Kiwi Kid?

[auggie18]

...okay, someone needs to do a master post of Spidekicks because the only one I heard of before Alpha was Frog-Man and apparently there was a lot of them.

[icon_uk]

That picture just has me hearing

"I can show you the world...
Shining! Shimmering! Splendid!
Tell me Peter, now when did you last
let your heart decide...."

[blackruzsa]

That can be done with new text in the balloon ;)
DO IT.
DOOOOOOO IT.