Happy birthday Spider-Man! This month marks the 50th birthday of my favorite superhero, Spider-Man. Marvel has planned a few events for the celebration of the world’s favorite webhead, which included the release of this year’s The Amazing Spider-Man in theatres. The celebration also includes some incredible variant covers for this month’s issues and also a special new story arc in The Amazing Spider-Man comics. After looking at a few of these variant covers, I definitely need to [Read More]
I’ve always been a fan of skate videos and the Tony Hawk games, but I never really got into the actual skateboarding myself. I even had a skateboard in high school and would play around with it from time to time, but I was always just too scared to actually really try to learn it. Now with The Amazing Spider-Man‘s twist on Peter Parker as a skater and my, sort of, recent (re)infatuation with Nike SBs, I’ve [Read More]
Some amazing and genius individual has gone ahead and re-created the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon intro using clips from trailers of the new Amazing Spider-Man film by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield. This is absolutely amazing. I always used to watch re-runs of the cartoon as kid and still do occasionally. The wacky and ridiculous quality of how superheroes were portrayed back in the day is hilarious. And the theme song is still a classic. The Simpsons [Read More]
If you know me, you know I’m a comic book geek. If you REALLY know me, you know that Spider-Man is my favorite superhero. Hands. Down. The new Amazing Spider-Man theatrical trailer just premiered an hour ago. And dear God, I’ve been geeking out so hard. I was a huge fan of the first two films, and kind of forced myself to like the third one. I didn’t really enjoy Tobey as Peter Parker or Kirsten Dunst [Read More]
