Spiderman!

[greed]

There was a campaign sometime ago to get Don Glover (Troy from Community) to play Spiderman. This would be great for multiple reasons.

• He's a good comic actor and apparently pretty good at improv and writing so he'd be great at the quips
• He can make himself geeky, awkward and wimpy one minute then tough and cool the next, pretty important for Spidey.
• The heart attack inducing apoplexy amongst the comics base for casting a black Spiderman would probably be vastly more entertaining than any comic book movie ever has been or ever will.
• It gives someone an excuse to post that comic with Spidey in court with J Jonah Jameson

[Lumenskir]

As Donald Glover put it, if you walked up to someone who had never heard of Spider-Man before and told them it was about a poor, bullied teenager from Queens, abandoned by his parents, who lives with his aunt and uncle, until his uncle gets shot in a carjacking, the first thing that pops to mind probably isn't "dorky white kid."

I mean COME ON!

[Locke cole]

...In the early part of the trailer, it looked like he had webs coming from his hands without assistance (sticking to his hair by accident), but in the Mirror's Edge segment, it looked like he had an artificial web-thrower mounted on his left wrist.

So which is it? Organic webs or synthetic ones?

[rpgdemon]

I had a dream that this movie was amazing. I now have faith in it.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by greed

There was a campaign sometime ago to get Don Glover (Troy from Community) to play Spiderman. This would be great for multiple reasons.

• He's a good comic actor and apparently pretty good at improv and writing so he'd be great at the quips
• He can make himself geeky, awkward and wimpy one minute then tough and cool the next, pretty important for Spidey.
• The heart attack inducing apoplexy amongst the comics base for casting a black Spiderman would probably be vastly more entertaining than any comic book movie ever has been or ever will.
• It gives someone an excuse to post that comic with Spidey in court with J Jonah Jameson

This would have at least been one way of justifying their insane insistence on rehashing his origin.

[Fifthfiend]

Whoa, speaking of

[Kim]

Pretty goddamn rad, I gotta say.

[The Sevenshot Kid]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Whoa, speaking of

I'll read the first couple issues of that just to make sure Pete didn't die so Marvel could fill some quotas. I was kind of hoping for a Jewish Spider-Man so we could get another reason for the whole guilt deal.

I think it's cool to add cultural diversity but this has me worried. This guy has no connection to Peter save for what they're gonna retcon. They had to have been planning his death for a while so they could have introduced this guy earlier.

[Fifthfiend]

Because I'm a mean-ass bitter-ass cynical old man I'm going to say that if this guy lasts at least as many issues as Cassandra Cain's original series did plus one year, without going insane, turning evil, being killed, otherwise getting fucked over, or just turning out to be a shitty character*, I am assigning Brian Bendis a massive amount of credit, backdated to today.

If he gets fed into the woodchipper of whatever nearest awful Event Comic then he forfeits all points, forever.

*I'll even grade the "shitty character" thing with a "for Bendis" tacked on.

[Magus]

New character should have been half-black and half-white and running for class president. Flash Thompson, Jr. spreads rumors that he is a secret...Wiccan... to try and ruin his campaign.

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