High Superhero Weirdness
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kent_allard_jrJust a couple quick hits today. First, Lou Anders tries to summarize the Grant Morrison "plot" arc for Batman R.I.P.. The results are not pretty.
Matt Springer tries to estimate the orbital period of Krypton. He figures it's about 69 Earth years, although it's based on pretty sketchy assumptions about Krypton's sun Rao. (He freely admits they're sketchy; it isn't his fault!)
Finally ... the pilot for the Japanese Spider-Man TV show!
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ecmeyers linked to the opening credits a while ago, but this is a video of the whole episode. Admittedly, I could only stand the first 15 minutes or so. Not to spoil it for you, but they changed the origin story, so Spider-Man got his powers from aliens of the planet Spider. No, I'm not making this up. No idea why they thought this was an improvement over the original story. (Maybe because the giant robots were easier to integrate, or something.)
Matt Springer tries to estimate the orbital period of Krypton. He figures it's about 69 Earth years, although it's based on pretty sketchy assumptions about Krypton's sun Rao. (He freely admits they're sketchy; it isn't his fault!)
Finally ... the pilot for the Japanese Spider-Man TV show!
ecmeyers linked to the opening credits a while ago, but this is a video of the whole episode. Admittedly, I could only stand the first 15 minutes or so. Not to spoil it for you, but they changed the origin story, so Spider-Man got his powers from aliens of the planet Spider. No, I'm not making this up. No idea why they thought this was an improvement over the original story. (Maybe because the giant robots were easier to integrate, or something.)
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Date: 2009-03-27 09:40 pm (UTC)Spider-Man got his powers from aliens of the planet Spider.
That's not much weirder than what JMS did with the comics recently, where Peter got his powers because the spider wanted to give them to him...
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Date: 2009-03-28 03:31 pm (UTC)"An emissary from Hell -- Spiderman!"
Trying to imagine this being said in Tobey's voice is pretty hilarious.