I prefer the mechanical web shooters ;)

Doesn't his webbing dissolve after an hour?

I like the Ultimate version, where his father had created the idea, and Peter just went with it and and improved upon it.

5 bucks says for pacing purposes he orders them on ebay and just invents the silly string for his webbing due to chemestry which he's good at. If I recall science was his strong point not engineering. 

anything is possible in comics

Never thought of that.

You mean to tell me that in the new Spider Man movie his body wont produce it. LAME!!!!

Peter Parker may have been an incredibly gifted lad, but was he smart enough to actually design the webbing and web-shooters at that young age?  

He must have a spider brain or something.

Peter not marketing his webbing makes sense if you look at his decision making from that time period.  He gets his powers and tries out show business/wrestling to make money.  That didn't turn out so well.  It brought pain and death to his loved ones.  No way he tries again to use his full abilities, spider or Parker, in the spotlight for profit.

After watching the films over and over again I grew used to organic web-shooters.  It made sense.  Spiders shoot webs.  I don't think it really matters if they are organic or come from a liquid that Peter Parker makes.  It doesn't change the character or his traits.  It makes more sense for him to have organic webs, and only because this it entertainment he doesn't have them coming out his butt.

Perhaps the question that should really be on people's minds is "Why is it alright for Peter Parker to kidnap millions of innocent spiders, place them in a warehouse and force them to make webbing all day?"

Do you also have a problem with the new suit he made?  Seems like that was also whipped up really quickly and look at what it does.  Is it unlikely yes, but so is just about everything in comics.  I think you have over analyzed this.  Think about how unlikely each origin of a superhero is and you could talk about this for years.  

The First that came to mind is a discussion in Kick-Ass of Millar between Dave and his friends out of a comics shop, in which he was speaking about the inability to see in a movie of spider-man the web shooters!! ahaahah 

Just curious: has anyone ever made real web shooters like on Mythbusters or something, other than cans of Silly String?

I remember reading an issue of Spider-Man some place that he himself mentions that the radioactive spider-bite that gave him his powers gave him incite into how to make the webfluid, how spiders make webbing, and how he could.  Sort of like it came naturally to him how to do it.  Plus he is smart enough to create devices to stop his enemies in the past.  To defeat the Vulture, to stop Doc Ock, to stop the Lizard, he reprogrammed a robot, and created Spider-Tracers.

" The main issue I always had was a matter of mass.  He has enough cartridges on his wrist to be equivalent to a can of silly-string.  So with two wrists he has about two cans worth.  This would equate to maybe 40 seconds of shooting.  No say the web susbtance exists to it can be projected and expands in air somehow - this would give him maybe three or four times as much, so every time Spider Man heads out to fight crime, he has maybe 2 and a half minutes or webbing to use.  Thats not a lot.    Even if it is organic, all that matter being expelled from his body has to come from somewhere, and if it is like a real spider would leave him severely dehydrated.  "

I think if Peter used his own DNA as part of the chemical compound for the web-fluid, then that would be a pretty plausible explanation for many of your questions Tony. 

"Pro-Mechanical for me "

" How can Spider-Man make a fist without setting off his web shooters ? "

i liked the explination in ultimate spider-man, his dad made the formula for the webs and he just perfected it 

I think way back when it would have been a stretch that it was part of his powers.  Besides it was a good plot device. "I ran out of web fluid!"

Peter was always shown to not just fight the bad guys, but invent things to help him beat them.  He was also shown to be on his way to becoming the next Reed Richards.  He was on the fast track to being a scientific genius with or without the spider-bite, so I can see him inventing the webbing and shooters, adding that he gained certain knowledge when he was bitten.  Like an innate sense of how to make webbing.

I am pro-mechanical as well. 
 
Didn't they pass it off as something Peter found that his Dad was working on and he made it his own?

" I am pro-mechanical as well.  Didn't they pass it off as something Peter found that his Dad was working on and he made it his own? "

Oh so the web in the mechanical shooters is a chemical compound? When I was a kid and watching the show, whenever he'd say he was out of web I just assumed that he was crapping in a can and putting that on his wrist, never thought about it beyond that...

They're using the mechanical  web-shooters in the movie?! Awesome! I know now I will definitely love this movie. 
 
And I'm like Spidey with the web-shooters, or his organic webs in the comics. But...it's nice they're starting him out without the organics in the movie.

As much as I'm typically a traditionalist, I actually didn't mind the organic web-shooters in the Raimi flicks.  It made more sense in the context of the films and as plausible as super-strength, wall-crawling and a "spider-sense" vs. a teenage kid building such an amazing contraption and develop such a material (web fluid) who is always low on cash.  It seemed a necessary evil much like updating Tony Stark's origin occurring in the Middle East vs. Vietnam.    

I think I want to see the mechanical web-shooters. The organic ones seem a little odd as if they were really organic, they would less likely come out of the wrist and out of the....you know.

I always found the idea of a high school kid making something like the web shooters insane even for a comic book, and the whole justification of "no man, the spider bite made him ABLE to create them!" is just as silly. If that's the case, why not just say the spider bite gave him web powers? It just makes more sense... you know, more sense in a "i got super powers from a radioactive spider" sort of way, but still...

I like that they are going with mechanical web shooters. Just another small aspect of the movie that sets it apart from the original Spider-Man movie. 
 
New costume, new title, mechanical shooters, Gwen instead of MJ; they really don't want this reboot to be related to the first movie franchise

Why not? Batman, Lex Luthor, Mr. Fantastic, Iron Man. Every one in Comics are genius and can invent stuff, but when it's Spider-man and Superman people question their intellect. Get a life people. 

As general rule I prefer the mechanical webshooters too.
 
About of Pete could invent them back at the time of his debut (when he was 15-16)... maybe, overall the mechanical part of the webshooters is just a glorified spray-gun, like those used for painting.
 I't the fluid I'm not so sure about.

Why and how?  It's comic books.

"Crackers and milk!?"  Are you f---ing kidding me?!  Is that supposed to be an exclamation or is he asking Aunt May for a mid day snack? 
 
Oh, early 60's.  Sometimes I wonder what was the point of you.

I prefer the organic ones. It's more "believable".

I'm also a fan of how Ultimate Marvel handled it. He found his brilliant father's unfinished (nearly finished? can't remember) work on an advanced adhesive, and adapted it for web-spinning purposes.

" I like Spidey shooting the webs organically like in the movies and not mechanically. "

Eh, I prefer the webbing to be natural.

What's more believable, actually? Spiderman's intellect as a teenager or the fact that he can cling to walls and sense when someone is behind him? No one ever questions why Bruce Banner can increase his mass because someone puts too much ketchup on his McDoubles.

He may have got some of the bugs down by looking at what other leading scientists (like Mr. Fantastic or more likely Dr.Banner) and the may have even helped him.

Why don't people ask about why his costume is changed from the original design, no need for it.  If you are gonna do different, go all the way.  But thats not the real question either.  It is, "how can a little nerd sew up that thing?  It looks like its made of a cloth Stark would sell."