i said it above, but i’ll say it again: spoilers. for spider-man. comics.

ok, still with me? i’ll save that piece until after i say this:

1. dan brown’s newest book is going to be based on masonic rites and the us government/washington dc. let’s get this straight: i hate this guy’s writing. i read ‘the da vinci code.’ and here is the issue: everything that was interesting in that book? every idea that seemed even slightly interesting? he stole them. all of them, completely. part and parcel from ‘holy blood, holy grail.’ in fact, i’ll just say he re-wrote that book, wrapping a paper thin and totally stupid fiction plot around it.

this latest news is just uber-lame. why?

because the same people who wrote ‘holy blood, holy grail’ wrote a book on the masons and the architects of the us, called ‘the temple and the lodge’. they took brown to court over the last book, but the case got thrown out: they claim their work is non-fiction and, because of that, dan brown is free to pillage the ‘facts’ as he sees fit.

but seriously? to make a huge career not only ripping other people off, but to rip off the same people over and over? tasteless.

and the second reason this is lame is because we have all seen (oh, admit it) ‘national treasure’. which, gasp, is about masons, secret societies, washington dc and the founding fathers.

[via vulture]

2. the spider-man thing. first, radioactive spider-sperm, now this.
so, for the last zillion months, marvel has been talking about, hyping, hinting about a storyline called ‘one more day.’ basically, aunt may got shot and is going to die…and peter has the option to save her. here, let me just quote the spoiler, so you can hear for yourself how dumb this is going to be:

We literally get (spoiler) Mephisto showing up out of nowhere and actually literally says “I want your love… I want your marriage.”…It’s a crazy, nonsensical scene – Mephisto has no motivation to be there or make that offer, other than a generic “Well, he’s the devil” one; even his stated reasoning – “I want that which gives you joy, that which sustains you in your moments of greatest despair” – doesn’t make sense because, dude, why does he care about Spider-Man in the first place? Doesn’t Mephisto normally go up against Thor or Ghost Rider or someone? And more importantly, if what he wants is to undermine Spider-Man’s moral center and security, then he’d let Aunt May die, not offer this cut-rate Faustian bargain.

[via the savage critic]

there is some more, but basically this entire piece of shit has been contrived to get spider-man out of his marriage with mary jane.

yeah, you read that right.

i’ll wait.

ok.

now, if you don’t see the problems here, let me try to highlight a couple real fast, before i get so upset that i begin to weep.

firstly, peter and mj have been married now for decades. (well, almost — 20 years in march, 08.) decades. in fact, this is how i know the character. this isn’t me petitioning for status quo, this is me saying that, at some point, a change can become absorbed into the character. it happens.

and, with spider-man and mary jane, it has happened. the world knows that peter ends up with mj. even when the eic of marvel talks and talks about hating the marriage and about how the marriage limits the stories that can be told, he is wrong.

secondly, its a stupid story. that should be obvious by the above quotes.

and thirdly, it seems even more boneheaded when spider-man 3 (the movie) has been out for a year and the ending, once again, makes it clear that these two characters are supposed to be together.

gah. it’s just absurd. and stupid.

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