I knew almost 40 years was too long to last.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060614/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentusbookscomicsspiderman

Marvel calls it "arguably the most shocking event in comic book history."

It is.

Superman dying was more shocking.

The Joker dying was more shocking.

You're all wrong

About as amazing as Superman doing it when his best friend is dying. Twice.

Allegedly. Superman is a real Richard.

WOW!

[sarcasm]

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Lame.

Ruth, your signature reminds me of the Hot Gay Nerd episode of Will & Grace.

The Vinny episode?

This "Civil War" gimick sounds an aweful lot like the Watchmen.

That's the dumbest civil war.

I can't believe how much they ripped off of Xmen with that story. It's like the EXACT same story with changed names. I'm clad I don't by comics. Retarded.

"Hey everyone, I'm Peter Parker! Not only that, here's my home address, a list of all my weakness, and a long list of people I deeply care for!"

What a stupid storyline.

The bad guys always go after Peter Parker and his friends/family to "get to" spiderman anyway, because they know that Parker takes so many pics of spiderman, so it must be his friend...

It'll get retconned.

Uh. X-Men and Spiderman are part of the same universe and share many similar authors and creative directors.

that's just dumb.

well, there not so creative then.

What's extra dumb is that this whole thing ties in with some kind of terrorism/patriot act-like business. 'Superheroes as living weapons of mass destruction'....

*vomits*

Well that's what all these comics are all about anyways, right? The flag guy with the shield used drugs to fight Nazis and the X-Men were all civil rights whatnots on Professor Picard's Underground Hover-rail. This is just the latest development.

I was actually thinking about something like this the other day, because I've been designing superheroes in my head for Freedom Force (or maybe just to write/draw, I dunno) and I got to the point where I realized they'd be in one of those shared-universe situations, most likely a Justice League scenario, which doesn't make a great deal of sense. I mean, how do all these superheroes just happen to pop up randomly?
Anyways, I was wondering about how a Justice League would interface with the government. Would they be some kind of special forces branch of the military? Would there be a general with an eye patch and a cigar on the main screen, barking orders at them like they were raw recruits just in from Westpoint? Or would it be more of a non-profit organization kind of thing with the government not allowed to interfere? Or would they just plain be renegades always on the run from Uncle Sam (Basically, the X-Men)?
Perhaps I'm not familiar enough with Marvel's work. I was always more of a DC boy, and even then not a lot (Dark Horse and ABC actually get most of my comic money, and that's a pittance to be honest). And yes, I know that the Justice League of America is DC, not Marvel, I just don't know the Marvel equivalent.

-Anyone ever notice that Superhero teams and White Supremacy organizations often have really similar names?

Batman is better.

Chuck Norris!

/mansecks Martyn's mouth shut

That is not a pretty image

I think a more shocking turn of events would be if it was revealed that Robo-cop went back in time, mixed his genes with Herbert Hoover, Lucy Lawless, and then had Arnold Schwarzenegger incubate the baby, and THOSE four would be the parents of Spider-Man!

And then Spider-Man and Luke Skywalker could do a cross over where they blow a S.S.C.S. (Secret Sith crime syndicate) plot wide open. And in a daring game of strip poker both reveal their secret identities, and Luke Skywalker is suddenly recognized to actually be the son of Jar Jar Binks all along! And as they try to escape, the S.N.S. (Super Nazi Scientologists) attack them, but just in the nick of time Captain America and the X-men save they day by throwing globs of man made rocks at the S.N.S. But out of the clear red Hell boy appears and blows Captain America’s face off with his overly enormous sidearm and dominates the Avengers and the Ultimates. But suddenly the Death Star blows up America. Not Earth, just America. Turmoil and fear rip the world apart as Martian Tripods land in the other world powers and reap devastation and ultimate havoc on the inhabitants of Earth.

As desolation and bad cliche’s become the primary focus of Earth the germs decide they want to have a piece of the meat. So, with little else to do the bride between bird flu and the other species on Earth is broken. And everything dies. Then the care bars come and claim victory. For it was their cunning master plan all along. But Just as it all wraps up, the Grinch steals EVERYTHING!

Now THAT would be the most shocking turn of events in comic book history. And that doesn’t even include the stupid little side stories where Mr. Rogers could show up and bite people.

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-Is this supposed to be some kind of slur against me?

OMQ! Spoilers!

You guys suck.

I love you. Where did you come from, how can I learn to be awesome like that?

He probably ate a spider for this power of awesome.

Peh... the child factor has now gone so high, and the seriousness soo low.

woah, that's crazy the world is not supposed to know...just the comic book readers and the movie watchers! lol but not the comic world. o well i like the issue they useed to "out" him. u know at first when I read that I thought they were going to say he was guy. I was thinking "but doesnt he like mary jane?"

This reminds me of The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.

hahahahaha