That took me ten minutes to read :p still funny, though

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Awesome. Simply awesome. That "Tobey McGuire/Jason Priestly" bit had me in fits.

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MORLUN: We've killed them all, Spider-Man. One by one. Sure, we had to bring back Aunt May and Mary-Jane, but it doesn't matter. They'll never be seen after you die. We're going to replace you with a new hero, a better hero. He'll be a teenager like the kids want to read about, with sexy cool friends and a politically-correct minority background which we'll respect by having him say a few phrases in Spanish, entienda? It is... inevitable.

Yes, when DO we start burning someone in effigy for that wonderful bit of character replacement, anyways? I'll pay for the torches.

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I'm getting so tired of these "funny" "summaries" of whatever movie/crossover/whatever it's "cool" to "hate" this week. They aren't funny, and the summaries take longer to go through than the original piece they're making fun of. The Other was far from perfect, but the end result was basically just the culmination of the "mystic spider roots" thing JMS has been doing for a couple of years on Spider-Man...I didn't hear people bitching and moaning about Ezekiel, or the *first* time Morlun tried to eat Spider-Man. So is this really just about the new outfit, and how badly the colors look? Spider-Man has worn worse. And seeing as it actually (gasp) serves the ongoing story of Peter becoming more and more reliant on Tony Stark (or Stark at least encouraging Peter to rely on him more), I'm all for it.

I'm just glad there was no Internet back when Stan Lee was writing Spider-Man in the first place. You people would have set his car on fire for killing Gwen Stacy. It's whining like this that got rid of his awesome black costume in the first place, which led to the creation of Venom, which led to his billion and a half clones running around now, like a bad aftertaste from the 90's that we just can't wash out.

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Hey, I'm all for ragging on memes and trends that aren't as enjoyable as their reputations claim, but this stuff actually amuses me. The length of these reviews do make it hard for anybody who's not looking to mock each subject's faults, but it's pretty damn good humor.

I don't think it's whining, so much as critique done with vehement sarcasm. Whining would indicate an unnecessary complaint. I think it's important there be fan reaction to the project, lest the editorial and writing staffs get to full of themselves, 'cuz honestly, The Other out-selling Dan Slott's Thing is just fucking sad.

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For this to be a critique, there would have to be insight into exactly what's wrong. Sarcasm requires wit. This is just the same fanboy whine that you can find on any forum, bundled into a long-winded, meandering mess. Just like the X-Men: THe Last Stand thing.

The Last Stand was easily the weakest of the X-Men movies from a story perspective. No argument here. They get points for trying, but that's about it.

The Other had its weak points, and was a bit too ambitious to start with (three writers? Each writing a separate part? Continuation of a dubious pseudo-ret-con of Spider-Man's origin?), but the fact that it outsold Thing isn't sad, it was a forgone conclusion.

Dan Slott, for better or worse, is pigeon-holed as a comedy writer. Does he deserve it? Of course not. But that's how it is, and he hasn't made much of an effort to cast it off recently either. And secondly...I read his Thing. I wanted to like it, because I'm a fan of his She-Hulk work. And you know what? I dropped it after two issues of sheer boredom.

Arcade as a villain is only going to appeal to a certain crowd...namely, people who remember Arcade growing up. Otherwise, the whole "evil child-like villain who uses giant toys and improbable death traps" schtick is a hard sell to a modern audience. You might as well be trying to sell Dudley Do-Right vs. Snidely Whiplash.

I know I'm in a minority here, but Thing is (or at least was, at the time I was reading it) a weak effort from Dan Slott. I was, and continue to be, behind him 100% with She-Hulk.

I've read *good* fan parodies and "summaries" before...even in recent memory. There was a guy on comicbloc.com who did some great MS Paint parodies of Infinite Crisis. But when the parody bores me more than the thing you're making fun of, that's called a failure of humor.

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Well you're just a Negative Nancy, arentcha?

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Well, thank God you didn't click on the link to a "funny" "summary" then, seeing as how you dislike them much.

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I like them just fine if they're funny, or actually summarize something.

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Aren't you doing exactly the same thing? You found something you didn't like, and complained about it.

Except that teh_no's complaints are actually funny.

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Complaints aren't required to be funny. Parodies are. Now do you see the difference?

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Complaints aren't required to be funny, but if they are funny, they are better. The difference is not as marked as you think.

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Irregardless, I'm not the person who wrote five pages of self-indulgent "criticism" to bask in my own glow. Honestly, I had meant to respond to the post in scans_daily, not in teh_no's personal LJ, so I'm going to leave it here. There's no reason to go on like this in a personal journal; I had meant to criticize the work on the community board.

Anyway, I made my point known. Not funny, self-indulgent, too long. Feel free to disagree.

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"I'm just glad there was no Internet back when Stan Lee was writing Spider-Man in the first place. You people would have set his car on fire for killing Gwen Stacy."

Gerry Conway would've been laughing his ass off.

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Hee, much love for the Buckaroo reference!

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MORLUN: Do you know how much better this crap is selling than Dan Slott's Thing? Search your feelings, Peter, you know it to be true.

SPIDER-MAN: That's not true! That's impossible!

T_T

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