Comments on Again With the Comics: Some Less-Than-Spectacular Spider-Man Foes

Is it fair to say, when I stopped collecting Spide...

2010-06-23T05:27:45.009-06:00

Is it fair to say, when I stopped collecting Spider-Man for years after 1988, I missed nothing?

"Moonshine, the Distillin' villain" LOL

You would have to dig into maybe Marvel Team-Up to find lamer villains!
'The Spot' bears mentioning---and just maybe, Red 9! And DON'T forget Big Wheel!!

Oh, Blood Rose, no matter how many Liefieldian pou...

2009-07-07T23:07:23.821-06:00

Oh, Blood Rose, no matter how many Liefieldian pouches you have, the kids will never love you.

Don't forget about Barefoot, the 11-toed Terror, a...

2009-05-26T07:15:15.168-06:00

Don't forget about Barefoot, the 11-toed Terror, and his sister/girlfriend, Pregnant!

Actually this was not the first time Spidey travel...

2009-05-25T05:50:44.507-06:00

Actually this was not the first time Spidey travelled to Pennsylvania. He took a flight to Pittsburgh after Mary Jane in ASM #292 (1987) to help her get her sister Gayle out of prison (and put her deadbeat dad into it). And after the two also beat the nefarious Alistair Smythe and his latest Spider-Slayer, MJ finally accepted Peter's proposal of marriage at Pittsburgh airport.
Hmm, I wonder if the bad image Pennsylvania got in that SSM story had anything to do with bad blood against Marvel's Pennsylvanian former editor-in-chief, Jim Shooter? (The destruction of his home town of Pittsburgh in the New Universe titles was also blamed on this, IIRC).

Skinhead DID end up being a self-loathing Jew, now...

2009-05-24T11:18:55.082-06:00

Skinhead DID end up being a self-loathing Jew, now that you mention it.

How about Fusion - the Twin Terror? Stegron? Will...

2009-05-23T22:28:25.856-06:00

How about Fusion - the Twin Terror?

Stegron? Will o' the Wisp?

Cardiac? Was he a villain?

Skinhead turned out to be the son of a rabbi or so...

2009-05-23T12:41:00.397-06:00

Skinhead turned out to be the son of a rabbi or somesuch, didn't he?

My wife and I live in Atlanta, Georgia and my wife...

2009-05-22T11:13:55.927-06:00

My wife and I live in Atlanta, Georgia and my wife's parents live in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. We drive up every year to visit them around Christmas time, and on one of those trips I drove from Mechanicsburg to a comic store in Hanover. Just to make this clear, I drove through rural Northern Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, the whole length of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and finally Pennsylvania to get to my wife's parent's house. The drive takes just under 12 hours. You actually cross the Mason-Dixon line before you get to Pennsylvania. I saw more Confederate flags in the trip from Mechanicsburg to Hanover then I saw in my drive up.

I'm just sayin' there may be a reason it's called Pennsyl-tucky.

Nik- The Grizzly was most recently spotted in "Age...

2009-05-22T07:48:42.891-06:00

Nik-
The Grizzly was most recently spotted in "Agents of Atlas" of all places, as an arms dealer working for Norman Osborn.

MT-I'm sure if Spidey ever went to Kentucky he'd h...

2009-05-22T07:42:30.980-06:00

MT-I'm sure if Spidey ever went to Kentucky he'd have fought "BLUEGRASS" or "MOONSHINE" (the distillin' villain!)

It's become cliche to bash the 90s era of comics, ...

2009-05-22T07:19:32.645-06:00

It's become cliche to bash the 90s era of comics, but it really was a bad time for the Spider-Man titles, wasn't it?

Ah, Pennsylvania. Thanks for taking the heat off ...

2009-05-22T07:07:11.480-06:00

Ah, Pennsylvania. Thanks for taking the heat off of Kentucky; where stories like this usually take place!

Hah, I remember Banjo, one of the worst! Must add...

2009-05-21T22:59:21.962-06:00

Hah, I remember Banjo, one of the worst!

Must adds:
The Answer, foppish dork from the 80s Spectacular Spider-Man run
Grizzly from the 1970s, who wore a grizzly bear suit
"Demogoblin," who was as 1990s as they come