Comics Official Fans of Reilly Thread

[Chris Wallace]

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

The eyes on the head seem off, but besides that it's very nice.

 

[Chris Wallace]

I know but that always bothered me. I remember reading somewhere that there was no trigger & he fired his webbing by positioning his wrist, but that does nothing to explain the trademark finger positioning.
I think one time Bagley drew the palm trigger, in Scarlet's first appearance in Amazing.

 

[imdaly]

Hold your wrist tight.
Then flex your 2 middle fingers in, as if you were tapping the trigger.
Do you feel the way your mucsles, tendons and bones move?
His web-shooters were a huge scientific breakthrough.
The sensors in the cuff of the web-shooter could tell how and what postion his hand was in.

Feels the same way as when I make a fist...

 

[Chris Wallace]

Still, no trigger, no need for the finger-tap.

 

[roni14]

I know but that always bothered me. I remember reading somewhere that there was no trigger & he fired his webbing by positioning his wrist, but that does nothing to explain the trademark finger positioning.
I think one time Bagley drew the palm trigger, in Scarlet's first appearance in Amazing.

Yeah, Bagley did draw them in ASM 399:

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Jeez guys, who cares about the finger-tap? If we're talking about this then we have run out of things to talk about. It's a stylistic choice, like the webs that are sometimes under Spidey's armpits.

 

[AgentEnforcer]

Looking at the Tribute images, it looks like Scarlet Spider was drawn with the finger taps only sometimes. When he was Spider-Man he never was.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Looking at the Tribute images, it looks like Scarlet Spider was drawn with the finger taps only sometimes. When he was Spider-Man he never was.

LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And look at your avatar. He's doing it there.
He always did it in both personas. The only time he didn't is if he was firing impact webbing or stingers, which launched from the back of the web-shooter.

 

[AgentEnforcer]

er.. sorry I thought the question was about him being drawn with the finger tappy things, not if he did the devil horns thing so shoot webbing.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Oh-you mean as far as them drawing the triggers.
Here's a redesign I did a while back.

 

[Panther10]

I always assumed that while the webshooters themselves were placed over his wrists, the trigger mechanism itself was fed underneath his glove.

 

[Chris Wallace]

I've thought that, too.

 

[Chris Wallace]

Again-seen it, but doesn't explain the finger taps.

 

[SpideyInATree]

I think I'm going to go and make my own web shooters.

 

[Rez]

Yeah, I dunno why this isn't making sense to some of you guys. Your muscles do different things depending on what motion you are making. Finger taps and making a fist do *not* result in the same muscle configuration. It might look or feel similar to you, but they are different. And anyone with even a basic understanding of how your muscles work- say, a massage therapist or a first year med student, should easily be able to tell. We have the technology to make an actual sensor like that, so I don't see how it's far fetched to assign technology like that to a character that's about as fictional as you can get.

 

[Fans of Reilly]

Does anyone know a good Ben Reilly .fanfiction that is about his Return

 

[Chris Wallace]

Yeah, I dunno why this isn't making sense to some of you guys. Your muscles do different things depending on what motion you are making. Finger taps and making a fist do *not* result in the same muscle configuration. It might look or feel similar to you, but they are different. And anyone with even a basic understanding of how your muscles work- say, a massage therapist or a first year med student, should easily be able to tell. We have the technology to make an actual sensor like that, so I don't see how it's far fetched to assign technology like that to a character that's about as fictional as you can get.

I think I would've had him close his fist just to avoid the confusion.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Does anyone know a good Ben Reilly .fanfiction that is about his Return

Good fan-fiction?


Seriously, most fan-fiction is crap, but I did read a pretty good "Ben Reilly returns" story in the late 90's, which must have been decent because I still remember it. I tried doing a quick google search for it, but it looks like it's gone through it's own clone-degeneration.

Why don't you write one?

 

[spidey-dude]

why would ben have a high school ring????

 

[spidey-dude]

did he?

and

DID HE!!??

 

[mre]

I don't remember that happening at all.

 

[JJJ's Ulcer]

Cause he did in the comics....
Endless debate starts again...
Also, in a recent issue of Amazing, Kaine called Peter a clone of Ben...

I think you can chalk that up to Kaine misspeaking or using "clone" in a more general sense of someone who is the same, not the literal meaning. Or Kaine just wanting to mess with Peter's head.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Well, I wrote a 3-part story that picked up in an alternate universe where Ben didn't die in SM 75. It was intended as an Epic Comics pitch into a continuing series. *I* thought it was pretty good.

I also wrote a plot for a revamped Sins Past where Green Goblin actually swapped out Ben with another clone in SM 75 and actually reprogrammed the real Ben into a new Goblin, ala ASM v.2 25. That's on page 9 of this thread.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Have a Merry Christmas, Cloneheads!