I don't see Hardy or Hathaway as believable foes for BatBale with his years of ninja training and knack for constantly doing pushups. They're going to have to build some crazy physiques.
As for the slender frame I always thought Spider-Man shouldn't look like a Mr. Olympia competitor like some many of the other superheroes. It gives him an interesting vulnerability and a spidery sort of look. Other than a small, small gripe about a minor change to the costume this really does look like ol' Webhead's leaped off a Steve Ditko page.
Web shooters would be most welcomed! I figured the deal now was to have movie spider-man carry web inside him which I always found creepy in a David Cronenberg kind of way.
*lowers newspaper* Oh what's that? Lucas wont include the original versions on blu ray? Get back to me when you do until then I'll be more interested in East Asian market trends.
I was a wee lad back then, too. I would have KILLED to have gone on this tour even though I was all about the Image titles back then. Thank you for sharing these pics!
Digital print is much like the current fad of 3D movies. It's just that, a fad. There is no substitute for holding print media. Yeah there is theoretically no limit to what you can store on some internal memory, but decades of people holding books will never go out of style. Also, the collectors of the world would never switch to this gimmick.
@FadeToBlackBolt: Morrison's run on X-Men started beautifully but couldn't stick its landing I think. Part of that blame has to be attributed to the horrendous artwork later in the book. The stories were never as good as the Cassandra Nova one, too.
Thank you for giving this run its due credit. THIS run is specifically why The Punisher is one of my all-time favorite four-colored characters. I actually prefer the Marvel Knights for the extra fun factor. Ennis's contempt for superheroes really shows (Spider-Man gets repeatedly punched in the face by The Russian, Frank runs over Wolverine with a steamroller after gunshots to the groin over and over, etc) and he pulls together a lean, mean action-movie type of story better than Hollywood has done in the last 20 or so years.
Where the Marvel Knights run was a whimsical action ride the MAX series was a cruel realistic crime drama. The violence and depravity scars up every character mentally and physically. I always interpreted his MAX version of Castle as a Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees but with a code of conduct. Writing the Punisher for a few years gave Ennis this great system for writing bad guys: here are the most vile, repulsive, evil scumbags on Earth and they're to get punished in the most violent yet appropriate way possible.
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