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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 19, 2020 20:49:15 GMT -5
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Post by HMARK Center on May 19, 2020 21:07:58 GMT -5
Damn straight he got married at Big Shea. Never forget, Spidey is both a Queens native and a true New Yorker, so of course he's true to the orange and blue.  |
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on May 19, 2020 21:20:51 GMT -5
Remember when they let Spider-man grow up?
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on May 19, 2020 21:28:43 GMT -5
Damn straight he got married at Big Shea. Never forget, Spidey is both a Queens native and a true New Yorker, so of course he's true to the orange and blue.  I know you aren't really a comic reader, but if you ever get a chance you should seek out this issue. It's all about how Peter&Ben bonded at Mets games over the years and is just a great read and heart string pulling. The story goes over how every year they go and every year the Mets lose until one time they win. You'd REALLY dig it. |
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Post by MrElijah on May 19, 2020 21:30:39 GMT -5
Remember when they let Spider-man grow up? Nah, the real money is him being kind of a moron everyone gets annoyed with. Man, f*** One More Day. |
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Post by TWERKIN' MAGGLE on May 19, 2020 22:04:53 GMT -5
Did anyone have more fun than Stan Lee?
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Post by Kyle Butler on May 19, 2020 22:35:51 GMT -5
Did anyone have more fun than Stan Lee?  “He just liked to have fun!!!” |
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Post by Cyno on May 19, 2020 23:22:34 GMT -5
He got married in Shea Stadium? No wonder why that marriage was doomed.
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Post by Bang Bang Bart on May 19, 2020 23:36:03 GMT -5
Damn straight he got married at Big Shea. Never forget, Spidey is both a Queens native and a true New Yorker, so of course he's true to the orange and blue. Considering the Mets’ fortunes and The Parker Luck being a thing, it’s a match made in heaven. |
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Post by mcmahonfan85 on May 19, 2020 23:58:46 GMT -5
man, i thought Spidey was supposed to be smart. if Spider-Man keeps his secret identity so super duper secret he wears a paper bag on his head so the Fantastic Four won't know who he really is, all in an effort to protect Aunt May and MJ from the numerous villains trying to hurt him, why is he openly marring MJ in a large public venue?!
congratulations Spider-Man, you just painted a gigantic target on her back. use your damn head!
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Post by HMARK Center on May 20, 2020 6:37:07 GMT -5
Damn straight he got married at Big Shea. Never forget, Spidey is both a Queens native and a true New Yorker, so of course he's true to the orange and blue. I know you aren't really a comic reader, but if you ever get a chance you should seek out this issue. It's all about how Peter&Ben bonded at Mets games over the years and is just a great read and heart string pulling. The story goes over how every year they go and every year the Mets lose until one time they win. You'd REALLY dig it. Oh, I've read that one, for sure; hate to admit it, but my kneejerk sports nerd reaction was "But the Mets have the best Opening Day winning percentage of any team in MLB history, they couldn't lose that much!" ...Then I had to slap myself and actually appreciate the story, which is quintessential Peter Parker and quintessential Mets fan: we're a really, really odd breed in that we willingly cheer for a team that has less historical success than an alternative just a few miles down the road, has had multiple atrocious owners over long periods of time making our lives miserable (seriously, look up the sins of the Wilpon family...and then look up M. Donald Grant, because holy shit), but that, deep down, better reflect the way a lot of us around NYC/NJ/etc. kind of view ourselves - not as products of New York's power, wealth, and prestige (that's the damned Yankees!), but as a bunch of neurotic, neon-colored weirdos who figure the worst is usually going to happen, so why not just accept it and then celebrate like a lunatic when the good times appear, even for just a couple seasons here and there? I like to think that feeling is what colored Peter's remembrance of how Opening Day usually went, as we're also Tristaters in that we lack the self-awareness to recognize that, compared with most expansion teams, the Mets, like us, have actually had it pretty decent: they're tied with other expansion clubs with two World Series titles and they've got five pennants, which is a pretty high mark among that group. Basically, there's a reason a whole lot of comedians and writers who come out of New York are Mets fans: our hangups are endless. I also want to believe that Captain America would become a Mets fan once he learned that Gil Hodges managed the team to its first World Series after playing nearly 20 years with the Dodgers, most of that time in Brooklyn, but Gil hadn't debuted full time in MLB until after World War II thanks to military service...though maybe the Brooklyn veteran connection would've been enough. |
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2020 6:56:22 GMT -5
And then when One More Day came out & undid the marriage because Peter felt a great responsibility to make a deal with the devil, all the creators who were super happy and hyping the marriage back then & over the years said "Oh yeah they never shoulda gotten married."
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Post by thechase on May 20, 2020 7:30:16 GMT -5
And then when One More Day came out & undid the marriage because Peter felt a great responsibility to make a deal with the devil, all the creators who were super happy and hyping the marriage back then & over the years said "Oh yeah they never shoulda gotten married." Ironically, one of the marriage's best writers, Tom DeFalco, actually planned to have MJ be the one to ditch Peter at the alter. |
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Post by MrElijah on May 20, 2020 7:35:56 GMT -5
I know you aren't really a comic reader, but if you ever get a chance you should seek out this issue. It's all about how Peter&Ben bonded at Mets games over the years and is just a great read and heart string pulling. The story goes over how every year they go and every year the Mets lose until one time they win. You'd REALLY dig it. Oh, I've read that one, for sure; hate to admit it, but my kneejerk sports nerd reaction was "But the Mets have the best Opening Day winning percentage of any team in MLB history, they couldn't lose that much!" ...Then I had to slap myself and actually appreciate the story, which is quintessential Peter Parker and quintessential Mets fan: we're a really, really odd breed in that we willingly cheer for a team that has less historical success than an alternative just a few miles down the road, has had multiple atrocious owners over long periods of time making our lives miserable (seriously, look up the sins of the Wilpon family...and then look up M. Donald Grant, because holy shit), but that, deep down, better reflect the way a lot of us around NYC/NJ/etc. kind of view ourselves - not as products of New York's power, wealth, and prestige (that's the damned Yankees!), but as a bunch of neurotic, neon-colored weirdos who figure the worst is usually going to happen, so why not just accept it and then celebrate like a lunatic when the good times appear, even for just a couple seasons here and there? I like to think that feeling is what colored Peter's remembrance of how Opening Day usually went, as we're also Tristaters in that we lack the self-awareness to recognize that, compared with most expansion teams, the Mets, like us, have actually had it pretty decent: they're tied with other expansion clubs with two World Series titles and they've got five pennants, which is a pretty high mark among that group. Basically, there's a reason a whole lot of comedians and writers who come out of New York are Mets fans: our hangups are endless. I also want to believe that Captain America would become a Mets fan once he learned that Gil Hodges managed the team to its first World Series after playing nearly 20 years with the Dodgers, most of that time in Brooklyn, but Gil hadn't debuted full time in MLB until after World War II thanks to military service...though maybe the Brooklyn veteran connection would've been enough. Hey, at least the Mets aren't the Knicks! Or Jets! And Captain America having a complicated relationship with the LA Dodgers, love for the Mets and disdain for the SF Giants and Yankees needs to be in a book yesterday. |
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Post by Hobby Drifter on May 20, 2020 8:43:18 GMT -5
Did anyone have more fun than Stan Lee? I once put forth the idea that Stan Lee probably died the most beloved person (in his own lifetime) in the history of the species. The only other person who could come close would be Walt Disney, but even DISNEY as a brand hadn't reached the market saturation that MARVEL (and more specifically, the MARVEL that Stan Lee had a hand in creating) had done by 2018. Between comics, animation, movies, toys, games, and the like, his characters were beloved by billions of people. And Stan Lee spent much of the 80's, 90's, aughts, and 2010's attending comic book shows where thousands upon thousands of fans lined up, every single time, to get his signature, tell him how much he meant to them, and just generally bask in the adulation of his fans. Up until fairly close to the end, he didn't even charge much for a signature or a photo. By the end, though, he could ask for hundreds of dollars and so many people would gladly pay it that slots sold out immediately. He did a Comic-Con here in Japan a few years ago and I think he* was asking something like 500 dollars. My wife told me that, if I could get a ticket, I should go. But they sold out in the blink of an eye. I doubt that anybody has ever left this world having been shown more love than Stan Lee. I would give almost anything to know what it felt like to be almost universally known and beloved. To know that characters and stories that you helped to create will be loved and remembered until the end of time. To have seen your co-creations conquer every possible corner of pop culture and media. *at that time, it wasn't Stan Lee making decisions on things like that. It was that subhuman parasite Keya Morgan. He took advantage of a mentally and physically fragile Stan Lee, cut him off from his family and friends, and worked him like a dog to make himself a few extra bucks. Including, I believe, that Comic-Con Japan appearance. |
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