It was (another) Merry Spidey Christmas

Well, the holidays aren’t quite over, but I thought that I’d share with you the Spidey-related gifts that I received on Christmas:

 The following items were presented to me by “Santa”

This Marvel Calendar I got with my pile of this week’s comics, how cool is that?

Happy Holidays, all!

JLA no more

OK, if we can laugh @ Spidey, we can laugh at his Distinguished Competition as well.

Courtesy of Mother Goose & Grimm.

Spidey funnies

Yet another funny Spidey cartoon discovered and sent to me by my buddy Ed.

Enjoy.

Recent funnybook Funnies

Thought I'd pass these along. The come to me via an old friend.

Hope you all had a Merry a Christmas as did I!

Bring out yer dead!

Yet another comicbook character bites the dust! According to a CNN story we can soon expect a founding member of the Fantastic Four to die in the near future. (ho-humm) Yeah, like we haven’t heard that one before. Sure Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Bucky Barnes, The Green Goblin, Harry Osborn, The Flash, Captain America, and a myriad of other characters have “died” (including one or two of the fabled FF itself already) only to come back to life, so why are we to believe this pap has any more staying power than any of those deaths?

Well, because Marvel tells us so.

Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort made it crystal clear: “A core character from the series, whom you've seen in the [2005 and 2007] films, will be no more,” he told CNN.

Yeah, right. If it lasts a year I’ll be totally surprised, but you are hearing it here, if not first, and least first from me, it wont last. Let me make this prediction, whoever it is that dies, will be back sometime before the next Movie or TV appearance of the FF, because we all know that Marvel allows the tail to wag the dog.

My pal, sometimes writing partner, and huge FF fan John Wilcox likes to remark that Stan Lee has been the only writer that has been able to consistently keep the team together (100+ issues, as I recall). Now that's what I consider to be an interesting story.

And now, for something completely different...

Have yourself a Spider Christmas!

And a Merry (Spider) Christmas to all!





Best part happens @ 1:09 in, I laugh every time I see it!

More trouble on the set of Spidey's musical

Christopher Tierney

According to last night's newscast, and today‘s Daily News gives us the story of how the harness of actor Christopher Tierney (a stunt-man playing Spider-Man) snapped and sent him plunging 30 feet from a platform into a pit below the stage, and the technical dress rehearsal was stopped as an ambulance was called to cart him off to the hospital. However, a spokesperson for the stage show says that Tierney  will recover and that the show will not shut down.

The decision was reached after a lunchtime meeting of the producer, investigators for the state Labor Department and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and a union rep from the Actors' Equity Association....

Meanwhile, state labor investigators were spotted at the Foxwoods Theater on W. 42^nd St., where the accident happened about seven minutes before the close of the Tuesday night show.

Tierney, who is a 30-year-old New York-based actor and dancer hails from Portsmouth, N.H., is in serious condition with cracked ribs and other injuries and is currently at Bellevue Hospital. Tierney is the fourth performer hurt since Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark began trial performances last month after several money-burning delays.

Director Julie Taymor called the accident “heartbreaking.”

“Nothing is more important than the safety of our Spider-Man family,” she said in a statement.

But several Broadway actors broke ranks and raged that Taymor was playing with her performers' lives to stage the $65 million spectacle, the most expensive Broadway show ever.

The play, which most recently had been pushed back to Jan. 11 (from Dec. 21), has been pushed back again ‘til Feb. In spite of  Taymor‘s upbeat attitude, there are many that think the play will never open, and even if it does, it can never make back what was spent on it.