Showing posts with label Doctor Octopus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Doctor Octopus. Show all posts

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Updated... FROM THE FUTURE!

While I was adding tags, I realized that the week and a half when I chose to hiatus could not have come at a worst time. So, I've come back to post that which I did not post before!
12/26/2006:Technically, the tentacle was already freed. Just a jumbled mess. You'd think being a doctor would enable him to know this.

12/27/2006:This is not so far from the canonical depiction of Doctor Octopus. All of the man's offensive and defensive power come from his tentacles, and I believe Spider-Man finally beat him in their first encounter with a blow to the jaw.

12/28/2006:You guys are in a building, and you could easily catch him if you tried, Jonah. You won't, though, because if there's no Spider-Man for you to complain about your paper is dead.

12/29/2006:
Jonah looks so sad that the camera was busted. Surely the blow didn't damage the film inside, or anything, considering how I doubt Mary Jane could summon up the physical force required to do such a thing.

12/30/2006:Conniving is not something you can take a picture of. At the very least, it's clearly not what Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus were doing.

12/31/2006:
So the Jameson-Lopez team splits up. It was disgusting and horrible while it lasted.

01/01/2007:Hooray, I guess.

01/02/2007:Jameson is bitter when he's been dumped. Extra-bitter with a side order of WHINE.

01/03/2007:This is pretty much how this always works itself out. Jameson fires Peter, then wants him back, and Peter always wants a raise. You'd think by now he'd be paid better than Jonah himself.

01/04/2007:Ah, this is how Jameson weasels out of this. He just gives Peter a one-time bonus. Fair enough, though.

01/05/2007:I like this development a lot.

01/06/2007:Hopefully Jonah can hire someone who can help him get the photos to New York in a jiffy, through the Internet. The man has trouble with a lens-cap, so a scanner would be a Gordion knot to him.



Monday, December 25, 2006

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas and happy holidays and whatnot.

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Broken Up, Broken Camera

I really like the fact that the relationship of Jonah Jameson and Maria Lopez just sort of vanished. That's Stan Lee's Christmas present to us all. Thank you, Stan!

Saturday, December 23, 2006

Jonah: Crazy Old Man

Jonah, Maria isn't going to want anything to do with you after all this. Before, you were a rich but slightly senile old man. Now, you're simply a crazy old man. No woman wants that.

Friday, December 22, 2006

No, Shortest Fight Ever.

What? That's it? All that waiting for a two-comic pay-off? I am very disappointed and depressed now. Thank you, Spider-Man. I just hope we get an explosive end to the Jameson/Lopez relationship now. If I can't have my superhero fights, I'll settle for explosive domestic disputes.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

Slowest Fight Ever?

If the fight keeps up at this pace, then it'll probably over in time for Christmas next year. However, I am glad that Spider-Man has worked the incompetence out of his system.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Arachnid

Wow, Doctor Octopus got it right. Usually he chooses to call Spider-Man an insect, which Spider-Man then mocks him about. Also, considering how the webbing did not seem to be doing too much before, lacking it now shouldn't be a big deal. Still, why couldn't Peter have checked how much of it he had when he was standing in the woods?

Monday, December 18, 2006

Spider-Quip

The notable thing about today's strip is that Spidey's quip actually made me laugh. Hooray for Spider-Man!

Sunday, December 17, 2006

Octopuses/Octopi

I'm glad Spider-Man is finally going to strike back. Hopefully Jameson won't get in the way, but it's quite likely he will. Not to mention the fact that both "octopuses" and "octopi" are acceptable ways of pluralizing "octopus". I learned that the hard way.

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Spider-Man: With the Proportionate Cowardice of a Spider!

It would seem that Spider-Man's new strategy for everything is to act like a coward. I just hope this leads to something other than more of Ock's gloating. I swear, that man is full of himself... and Twinkies.

Friday, December 15, 2006

A Heroine Shall Rise!

Call me crazy, but I think Mary Jane is somehow going to luck into defeating Doctor Octopus. Afterwards, Jonah Jameson will accuse the whole Doctor Octopus/Spider-Man fight as a publicity stunt put on by the studio.

Thursday, December 14, 2006

The Knife Goes Deeper...

Jonah Jameson drives the knife in deeper. Obviously, his love for her was fleeting. She is pretty gullible, though. Spider-Man is obviously doing nothing offensively, he's just dodging. I doubt the web-slinger has even thrown a punch yet.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Optimism

Doctor Octopus is the eternal optimist, believing he can defeat the being who has proven to be his better time and time again. Hopefully that'll optimism will serve him well in prison. Meanwhile, Jonah Jameson is displaying his own type of optimism, or stupidity. Notice how Maria Lopez looks shocked: this is the nail in the coffin of their relationship. Thank God.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Look out, here's the Amazing Spider-Man!

Actually, Doc, you have just held people for ransom before. It's not below you or anything, so don't shoot Mary Jane's suggestion down like that. She's just trying to help and maybe not die. As for you, Spider-Man, I'm pleased to see you but know that this fight won't be worth the inanity we've sat through for the past month. Especially since that month included someone kissing Jonah Jameson. In any case, kick that supervillain's pudgy butt. That'll teach 'em!

Monday, December 11, 2006

Continued Stories

We get it, Peter. It was all a plan so you could save your wife. You should really be telling your wife, as Mary Jane seems to not have a lot of faith in you at the moment. Perhaps you shouldn't have tried to trick Doctor Octopus by shouting, "I WANT TO LIVE! THROW HER FIRST!" The good Doctor isn't without his flaws, as his sole line is simply terrible. How would Mary Jane start any stories at the moment, seeing as how she's being held by a steel tentacle? Are you going to let her fetch a book or magazine, Doc Ock? Would you give her time to read one story, and one story only? Is that why it can't be continued? I think perhaps you should just put her down, go home, and sleep for a bit, Doctor Octopus. You're making very little sense.

Sunday, December 10, 2006

What a Surprise!

Oh, so Peter has been tossed over a convenient wall, and now he's changing into Spider-Man? What a surprise! Oh, and they really need to change the little blurb on top. Peter's no longer in college, and we haven't seen Aunt May in the strip for years.

Saturday, December 09, 2006

Oh look...

Oh look, Doctor Octopus is throwing Peter Parker over a convienent wall. WHo saw that coming? Oh, and I enjoy that anyone within earshot is going to think Peter is a real coward/jerk now for suggesting his wife gets thrown first.

Friday, December 08, 2006

He Awakens!

Good morning, sleeping beauty. Hopefully you weren't really knocked out, but thinking of a magnificent plan to get you out of this? It's doubtful, but stranger things have happened. Also, Doctor Octopus should keep his "hostages", but I know what will happen. Doc Ock's going to toss Peter over a convenient wall, allowing him to change into Spider-Man. Of course, I've been wrong before.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Deja Vu

Jonah Jameson is obviously trying to be Maria Lopez's knight in shining armor so he can get the "hero's reward" and that makes me want to vomit. Hopefully he'll be able to operate that camera, as I remember him having difficulties with a non-video camera earlier in this storyline. You know, when Jonah rushed in and tried to get some pictures of Doctor Octopus only to get captured, resulting the in the super-villain's escape. Let's hope that does not happen again.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Distinguished Competition

I'm enjoying these little references to the company Stan Lee used to refer to as Marvel's "Distinguished Competition" (Adam West counts as one) but couldn't he say something about Marvel? I mean, they're in Hollywood right now. Simon Williams (Wonder Man) is a superhero/actor. The Parkers could meet up with him. The closest we've gotten to anything like that is Spider-Man's run-in with Ghost Rider from about a month ago, but that doesn't count because it was a stunt-man.

As for today's comic, I'm glad the police have arrived to keep the public out. However, shouldn't they be doing something other than that? Like trying to rescue the two hostages the super-villain has? Then again, if anything happened to Ock, his tentacles would probably either constrict and crush the Parkers, or let them drop to the ground which would just injure them. Speaking of tentacles, the one holding Peter looks like it's about to drop him.