fan material.

So I read through this Spider-Man book. I was really impressed. Not only with Peter David's writing style - for example, justification for the spider biting Parker's hand, or a reason why MJ was told she needed acting lessons by a soap opera, or that Flash's ring was a 'steady' ring, but by the amount of foreshadowing.

I mean, wow. Couple of excerpts for you.


"But... 'Green Goblin'," Peter said in weak protest. "It sounds so..."
"We have to make the name more memorable! And nothing makes people remember a name better than alliteration!" J. Jonah Jameson said.
"Do you really think so?" Peter Parker asked the nearest bystander.
"I wouldn't know," Robbie Robertson commented. Then J.J.'s secretary, Betty Brant, informed him that he had a conference call with the noted scientists Bruce Banner and Reed Richards.

"Man... looks like... some sort of cocoon..."
"What," DeFalco said skeptically, his voice thick with disbelief, "you're telling me that these jokers were nailed by a giant caterpillar?"
Owsley rubbed some trailing threads between is fingers, noting the adhesion. "Or," he said with an air of great significance, "a giant spider, man."
"Great," snorted DeFalco. "Well, it's better than last week, when you read about those soldiers getting trashed in New Mexico and said some sort of incredible hulk did it."

Peter tried, really tried, to view the situation the way the professor probably viewed it. On that basis, he could supposed he could understand why Connors had just given him the heave-ho.
On the other hand, part of him, a nasty, insidious part, couldn't help but hope that iguana would mutate, bite Connors, and turn him into a giant lizard. Then Connors would get to see life from Peter Parker's point of view.
As if that would ever happen...

A young man with dirty blond hair, a camera slung around his neck, and a generally shabby appearance, emerged from the hall and stalked across the newsroom. he stopped when he saw Peter staring at him, saw the camera bag slung over Peter's shoulder. "What're you lookin' at, greenhorn?" he asked in a voice filled with pure venom.
"And Brock! Would it kill you to get a decent suit!?"


If you don't get those references, then meh. They weren't meant for you. I just love this kind of thing.

An update on Safety Dan and his Monkey to arrive after my jaunt to Italy. See you all back here - same Bat-time, same Bat-channel.