7/22/2023 0 Comments Different versions of spider manPower-responsibility score: 10 Uncle Bens out of 10. In any case, this Hobie won the affection of fans by siding with the people against their corporate oppressors, leading the downtrodden masses against the establishment, and breaking his guitar over the head of the U.S. Fascinatingly, this Spider-Man was the subject of a minor dispute between his creators, with artist Olivier Coipel intending him to be a British punk of the Sex Pistols variety, but writer Dan Slott overriding the decision to establish him as an all-CBGB New Yorker. Hobie was transformed via spider bite into the punk-rocking, trash-talking Spider-Punk. Such was the case for Earth-138’s version of Hobie Brown (better known in our more familiar Earth-616 as Spider-Man’s longtime ally - yes, ally! - the Prowler). What’s his deal?: Every so often, a terrible idea turns out to be unexpectedly brilliant. Hobie Brown/Spider-Punk Image: Cody Ziglar, Justin Mason/Marvel Comicsįirst appearance: Amazing Spider-Man (vol. Power-responsibility score: No Uncle Bens here. Spider-Verse’s Jess is thus a wholesale reinvention of the concept - though comics Jess did famously have a book in which she did superhero stuff while pregnant - that owes a certain debt to her elder counterpart. Created in 1976 in a rush to stop an animation studio from grabbing the trademark to the Spider-Woman name, comic book Jessica actually has no real relation to either Peter Parker or Miles Morales, having instead acquired her powers in a bewilderingly arcane origin involving HYDRA, her geneticist father, and possibly a talking cow. What’s her deal?: Across the Spider-Verse’s Jess Drew is an original creation, but she owes her name (and overall look) to comic book predecessor Jessica Drew, the original Spider-Woman. Jess Drew/Spider-Woman Image: Sony Picturesįirst appearance: Marvel Spotlight #32 (sort of) Power-responsibility score: 4 Uncle Bens out of 10. An inverse of the classic Spider-Man, Miguel is taciturn and surly in his superhero alter ego and something of a wisecracking lothario in real life. A researcher working for the nefarious and powerful Alchemex corporation, he ultimately found himself a victim of his own experimental, spider-themed research, giving him creepily spider-derived powers and eventually a costumed identity as a hero. What’s his deal?: Miguel O’Hara lived in the far-flung Marvel future of 2099, a world dominated by corporations run rampant and dangerous innovations in genetic engineering and virtual reality. It's a reminder of the fact that when Peter is focused on a goal, there's nothing that can stop him - the core tenet of Spider-Man that forms the backbone of Into the Spider-Verse.Įach week, comic book writer Chris Sims answers the burning questions you have about the world of comics and pop culture: what's up with that? If you'd like to ask Chris a question, please send it to on Twitter with the hashtag #WhatsUpChris, or email it to with the subject line "That's What's Up.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes bigger, bolder, and more ambitious Miguel O’Hara/Spider-Man 2099 Image: Sony Picturesįirst appearance: Spider-Man 2099 (vol. It gives us just enough to fill in those blanks ourselves, making the reader answer the question of what Spider-Man lost in that conflict, but it also works with the core of the character. Even Doctor Strange, who lost an eye in this unseen conflict and has replaced it with the Eye of Agamotto, is serving this Spidey as an underling. What makes this Spider-Man so interesting, even beyond the novelty of seeing an evil, world-conquering Peter Parker, is that he's presented as the unquestioned master of his world. It's maybe the single best comic series that like 15 people read, including me and creators Sean McKeever and Lou Kang. The result is a story where Doctor Octopus tries to steal the Statue of Liberty, and gets stopped by a group of heroic robots that include a 50 foot-tall on-fire motorcycle robot piloted by Ghost Rider, a literal demon from Hell. My favorite thing about MegaMorphs is that it takes a pretty obvious question about the fiction of the Marvel Universe - why doesn't Tony Stark just build Iron Man suits for all of his friends so that they can be exponentially more powerful? - and takes it to the buck wild but completely logical extreme of asking why Tony Stark doesn't just build gigantic transforming Megazords for all of his friends instead. As toys, they weren't great, but as a concept for a comic, it's amazing. The toy line was a pretty simple concept it's basically just Transformers but with the Marvel superheroes, leading to weird stuff like a Captain America mech that turns into a helicopter, and a Punisher toy that you can arrange into a robot with a gigantic gun where his human junk would be.
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