Comics Edwin Brock?? (ASM 532 Spoilers)

[Dangerous]

You want to nitpick this? Alright, I'll be accommodating. Little education lesson... the term "newbie" most commonly refers to someone who is unfamilar with internet, or board "netiquette". Creating threads that are mistitled (it was in ASM#533, not #532), on a topic that already has a thread (on page one, they didn't even have to search for it) is a classic newbe move... that and the fact that one has been a member of the BOARD less than a month, and the other hardly ever posts.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...e:Newbie&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

By definition and in this context, the term has nothing to do with how long you have been reading Spider-Man comics. But thanks for the attempted put down.

FYI - A Spider-Man "newbie" would be someone who has little knowledge of the character. I have news for you DUDE, you don't have to read Spider-Man for 30 years to GET the character. I've not just been reading Spider-Man comics for 2 years, I've been STUDYING the character. Not only have I read EVERY issue of Amazing Spider-Man, I'm well on my way through the other core titles, as well as reading the many Spider-Man novels, commentaries, and biographies on the company, writers and artists etc...

But again, that has nothing to do with my original comment that you tried to spin into something it wasn't.

Heheheh, Good for you buddy.
Hey your a devoted Spider-man fan, I can't diss that!

I was just saying, 'newb', 'noob' etc, I understand they have slightly different connotations, but basically one of the core meanings of this term of phrase is that the person whom is being referred to as the said noob/newb is basically wet behind the ears in a certain area.

Ok so you were picking him up on his internet skills, but you should know that we all have to start somewhere. As there would have been a time non so long ago when your knowledge of SM was perhaps a little naive and you may have produced some glitches in your keyboarding.

So yeah I just think sometimes people don't really need to call anyone a newb/noob.

 

[Effect]

Dude...we're talking about the same editorial staff that missed MJ's armed being snapped in half one issue, and then it being magically healed in the next.

Ah...how I miss the old days when we had an asterick next to things...then we'd get a text box that told exactly to what was being referenced...complete with issue number!

Now...we're lucky if they even read Spidey and remember anything about it....especially the EIC....

Why exactly was this stopped?

 

[SpideyInATree]

This wouldn't be the first time JMS screwed up on continuity issues during his run on Amazing Spider-Man

Ron Garney drew it though.

This is running along the same lines as the New Avengers # 2 scandal. Where everybody blamed Bendis for it, but really it was Finch who made the mess up.

I'm not saying JMS is not to blame...maybe in the script he wrote Edwin Brock. But Ron Garney, who has worked on the title in the 90's, drew the book...and wrote Brock, Edwin.

But, I guess they had to show it. Knowing full well, for a fact now, that Venom is going to be in Spider-Man 3, after seeing the trailer, they had to show him. I just find it funny though that the way Millar had it...that Brock was pretty much dead and everything...and Marvel will probably be quickly moving to put that damn symbiote suit back on Brock in time for the film.

Anyway to make Millar's Marvel Knights run look stupid is fine with me. A nice run up until the most anti-climatic ending in comic book history. People thought that the Book of Ezekiel was anti-climatic...HA! You've got Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin and Spider-Man on top of the bridge, with MJ's life hanging in the balance. OH, LETS HAVE THEM GET HIT BY LIGHTNING!! THAT WILL JUST DELIVER IT HOME TO THE FANS!!! HA!

Scorpion better not have gotten comfortable with that suit, it's gonna be gone in a few months, bank on it.

 

[Lt. Figgnuts]

Dude, it's amusing that you should call Pokershirt a newb when you yourself could be considered a newb here by many peoples standards since your gateway to Spidey comics was via the films from 2002 onwards.

Come now. That's not really fair, is it?

I only came to the comics after picking up the first USM TPB. From there I branched out into the 616 comics, read a lot of **** and basically boned up on my Spider-history. I've read quite a few of the classic/milestone Spidey stories, and am at least mildly familiar with the ones that I haven't.

Yet, I've only been actually reading the comics for five years. Does that automatically make me a newb? Is there some set period of time you have to be reading the comics to not be considered a newb? I'd like to know.

 

[stillanerd]

Ron Garney drew it though.

This is running along the same lines as the New Avengers # 2 scandal. Where everybody blamed Bendis for it, but really it was Finch who made the mess up.

I'm not saying JMS is not to blame...maybe in the script he wrote Edwin Brock. But Ron Garney, who has worked on the title in the 90's, drew the book...and wrote Brock, Edwin.

Of course. That's usually how it works, in that the artist works from the script he's been given. However, that is a good point about Garney. Sure, it's a bit of a nitpick not getting the name exactly right, but you'd think they have a handle on these thing. Still, even Stan Lee messed up in the beginning when he called Peter Parker "Peter Palmer."

But, I guess they had to show it. Knowing full well, for a fact now, that Venom is going to be in Spider-Man 3, after seeing the trailer, they had to show him. I just find it funny though that the way Millar had it...that Brock was pretty much dead and everything...and Marvel will probably be quickly moving to put that damn symbiote suit back on Brock in time for the film.

You got it. Because Venom, as far as most people are concerned IS Eddie Brock so except no substitutes. Although, there have been cases of people who have tried to commit suicide by slitting their wrist and who have managed to survive, so it's conceivable that was the case for Brock. Had he shot himself in the face, then it would be a little hard to swallow his coming back.

Anyway to make Millar's Marvel Knights run look stupid is fine with me. A nice run up until the most anti-climatic ending in comic book history. People thought that the Book of Ezekiel was anti-climatic...HA! You've got Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin and Spider-Man on top of the bridge, with MJ's life hanging in the balance. OH, LETS HAVE THEM GET HIT BY LIGHTNING!! THAT WILL JUST DELIVER IT HOME TO THE FANS!!! HA!

Man, are you right about that. I mean everybody was geared up for an all out battle between two of Spider-Man's greatest arch-villains which would've been a Spidey fan's greatest dream and then a firggin' bolt of lightning blasts them? Not only was it a deus ex machina but very unoriginal one at that. This and the whole framing John Jameson as Spider-Man even though they've been seen together numerous times even by J. Jonah Jameson himself were really bad moves.

Scorpion better not have gotten comfortable with that suit, it's gonna be gone in a few months, bank on it.

Somehow, I get the feeling that it will leave Gargan sooner than that.

 

[Lt. Figgnuts]

Had he shot himself in the face, then it would be a little hard to swallow his coming back.

They could always explain it away by saying he missed and shot himself through the cheek.

 

[Kahoot]

I'm no expert but Venom (the symbiote) got it's powers because it joined it Parker. Does that mean if/when it re-joins up with Eddie that it'll now have Spider-man's powers and Scorpion or will they just pretend Scorpion never happened and move on?

 

[Feature]

I know these continuity errors are as annoying as hell, but they're just mistakes. Even Stan Lee made them when he was the only one on the book. For example, in ASM #18, Aunt May is taken care of by Mrs. Watkins, although she had been called Mrs. Watson before and was callled this again every time afterwards.
Also, in ASM #28, Peter calls his classmate Liz Hilton, but by issue 30, its back to Liz Allan.

 

[The Comedian]

I'm no expert but Venom (the symbiote) got it's powers because it joined it Parker. Does that mean if/when it re-joins up with Eddie that it'll now have Spider-man's powers and Scorpion or will they just pretend Scorpion never happened and move on?

Scorpion's powers were pretty much identical to spidey's, enhanced strength, speed, agility, etc. The venom symbiote won't have Scorpion's tail because he never wore the suit while bonded with the symbiote. If it rebonbds with Brock, I don't think there will be any notciable difference in Venom's powers

 

[Kahoot]

Scorpion's powers were pretty much identical to spidey's, enhanced strength, speed, agility, etc. The venom symbiote won't have Scorpion's tail because he never wore the suit while bonded with the symbiote. If it rebonbds with Brock, I don't think there will be any notciable difference in Venom's powers

Ok I thought Scorpion was traped in his suit... Weird.

 

[Doc Destruction]

There are Gargan as Venom fans???

 

[SpideyInATree]

Man, are you right about that. I mean everybody was geared up for an all out battle between two of Spider-Man's greatest arch-villains which would've been a Spidey fan's greatest dream and then a firggin' bolt of lightning blasts them? Not only was it a deus ex machina but very unoriginal one at that. This and the whole framing John Jameson as Spider-Man even though they've been seen together numerous times even by J. Jonah Jameson himself were really bad moves.

I totally forgot about the John Jameson debacle. My mind must have blocked it out because it was so stupid that JJJ would actually BELIEVE that.