When I first saw Jeremy Conrad‘s humorous tweet, I figured he’d summed up the details of the Sony/Marvel deal as well as anyone ever would. Money, right? That’s what makes the world go round and keeps the ‘biz’ in ‘show biz.’
Then Variety released the actual details of the deal and, well, you just can’t make this stuff up: SHIT WAS FREE. No one is getting paid!
Via: Danwy
Er…weren’t most of these characters created by Jewish folks?
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Spider-Man has always had girl troubles. From his first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 to whatever movie Marvel is releasing this year, the wisecracking web-head has rarely been lucky when it comes to love. Oh, sure, he’s had girlfriends. He’s even been married. But each and every affair inevitably ended in disaster. Death, dumping, a Marvel mandated mind-wipe — the deeper the love, the more messed-up the break-up. But does Spider-Man allow any of that to dim his dream of true love? Hells no. Skip ahead a few issues, and a new gal walks through Spidey’s door (or flies past his window…or punches him in the face while fleeing the scene of a crime…) and his lower half’s spider-sense starts tingling once more. Oh, comics. Ah, l’amour!
Listed below are my five favorite Spider-Man love stories. Some are silly, some are somber. All of ‘em are all-caps ROMANTIC.
Animator Alan Becker is recreating the world of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away in Minecraft. So far, he’s completed the bathhouse and the ghost town, but he’s not stopping ‘til he’s done. Here’s his description of the work in progress:
This is a tour of my Spirited Away world in Minecraft. It is only 80% finished, but before I post videos about working on it, I need to show what I’ve done so far!
This video goes from the entrance to the next world to the field that they cross to get to the ghost town. I reveal some Easter eggs and daylight sensors in the buildings.
Via: Geek Tyrant
The ugly, accident-prone, fiscally f*cked Broadway musical, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, will close its doors in January, Variety reports.
While the $75 million musical takes in an estimated $1 million per week, the show costs $1.2 million per week to produce. Add in the large legal settlement made to original director, Julie Taymor, as well as the countless payouts to those folks injured during the show’s run, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is now officially “the most expensive production in Broadway history and a financial wreck for investors.”
Thank heavens Uncle Ben didn’t live to see this.
One of my favorite things about the holidays is digging through my comics, finding the PERFECT stories to match the merriment. While the St. Patrick’s Day pickings can be a li’l paltry, Halloween never fails to provide. Listed below are my Top 5 comics that take place on Halloween. If you have any others that you’d like to recommend, feel free to share ‘em in the comments section. I’m always looking for more!
