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Houston! We've Got Our Own Superhero! And Marvel Comics Wants You To Meet Him Next Wednesday!
Nordling here.
This is going to be a lot of fun. Houston's getting their own Marvel superhero - and it's the Scarlet Spider! Marvel Comics is celebrating Houston's new superhero with an event at the Alamo Drafthouse West Oaks, next Wednesday night, January 11th, at 7:30 PM. Tickets are only $6!
Christopher Yost and Ryan Stegman are the series' creators, and will be there for an audience Q&A (to be moderated by myself), so get your questions ready - like, how will a superhero like the Scarlet Spider, a clone of Spider-Man, navigate our city with its wide open spaces? I'm curious myself about how Houston's geography will effect the Scarlet Spider's success at crimefighting. I've read the first issue, and it's pretty terrific, with a great character in the Scarlet Spider, a new background that we don't often see in superhero comic books, considering many of them take place in either New York or some fictional setting, and I can't wait to see what Christopher Yost and Ryan Stegman come up with.
Christopher Yost is no stranger to comics, having helped create X-23, and he's also been a writer on X-MEN, X-FORCE, BATMAN, and worked on TV shows like THE BATMAN, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, and X-MEN: EVOLUTION. Ryan Stegman is one of Marvel's top illustrators, having worked on X-23, SHE-HULK, and THE INCREDIBLE HERCULES.
Also, 8th Dimension Comics And Games will be hosting a signing event with Christopher Yost and Ryan Stegman at their store from noon to 4:00 PM to meet the fans, so please swing by before the night's festivities and check it out!
We'll also be screening select episodes of THE AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES, which both Yost and Stegman have worked on. Plus there may be more surprises in store that night. If you buy your ticket online, you'll get a seat for the event, plus Scarlet Spider #1 when you arrive.
So come on out and welcome Marvel's first Houston-oriented superhero!
Nordling, out.
Readers Talkback
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Houston rocks!
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Didn't realize he settled down in Houston.
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One who won't take shit?
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We even had a nuclear bomb blow us up in Independence Day. At least Rushmore was filmed here, though.
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I though they killed him off and tried to pretend that whole 5 years worth of spidey comics never happened. I haven't read or kept in touch for years now, but are they really bringing back a character from an era that nearly destroyed everyone's love for spidey? That was some of the whiniest emo tripe I've ever read. The clone series; I'm not the real spidey, oh wait yes I am, oh maybe not, is he a clone too? my returned parents were clones? Jackal was a clone? wait I'm not a clone? who's a clone again? crap, sales are dropping, everyone was a clone and -surprise!- the original Green Goblin never died and was behind the whole thing... and doggie bags are stapled to the next few issues. You know, just in case... It was just as insulting as emo-cap around the same era. At least cap got Waid and Garney to come in and blow our minds after.
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I'd forgotten Houston was the chosen nuclear target in ID4. Hahahahah, you poor guys.
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I forgot, Marvel fired Waid & Garney to do a moneygrabbing elseworld run and brought them back after only to meddle incessantly until they left. ahhh the 90's...
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the scarlet spider and texas deserve each other yeah I said it, fuck texas
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This will suck. I like Yost's X-Men writing, but ANOTHER Spidey clone? Good for Houston, though. I think NYC has enough superheroes as it is.
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You know, a small center of tall buildings that all close after business hours surrounded by endless miles of decaying suburbs. How the hell is he going to web sling around? Or will he be taking public transportation?
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So this isn't one of the Scarlet Spiders from The Avengers Initiative? The last surviving clone of MVP? (I am doing MAJOR catch up on my comics, so I'm sorry if this is a silly question...)
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...NO this is not the last clone of MVP. Oh well!
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That whole clone saga crap in the 90s just sucked balls. Then they had a run of Web of Scarlet Spider, Amazing Scarlet Spider, etc. And I was done. I came back on the comic train when the Superhero Registration Act took place but stopped again after the deplorable One More Day abortion came about. Now with comics at $4 a pop...they can go fuck themselves.
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I suppose he still is, whatever
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Jan. 4, 2012, 2:25 p.m. CST
There's a pic of hipster-sockhead Peter Parker from Amazing Spiderman (the movie) up on SpinoffOnline...
by mdk
...See it and let the bile rise, fanboys!!! (Emma/Gwen looks as cute as ever, though)
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Haters, put the politics aside and admit that TX is a great place. That plate of enchiladas or fajitas you like so much: it's not Mexican, it's TEX-Mex. That gas you used to drive to your girlfriend's house: probably came through TX (Houston in particular). Did you enjoy playing DOOM or Quake (the games that put FPS's on the map)? They were Texan. We've got Dell, Freescale, Jason's Deli, Nasa, and a host of other organizations. We gave you Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Dennis and Randy Quaid, Jamie Foxx, Bill Paxton, Steve Martin, Wes Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, Tex Avery, LOTS of other people you know and respect. And of course, this here website, where you're spewing your bile, is also Texan.
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Now, can you have him do something about the Houston traffic?! Also, does he prefer Saint Arnold or Southern Star? ;-)
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once you look past the fundamentalists, the gun-toting rednecks, the ''don't mess with texas'' assholes, the obsessive football maniacs, the stupid fucking hats and dumbass pointy-toed boots, the ''good-ol' boy'' bullshit, the imperviousness to reason, the anti-intellectualism, ... what was I saying?
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Dunno if it's really Texas hate dude. The spidey-clone was such maddening dribble that the hate just flies around indiscriminately. Once a tornado gets going, it doesn't pick it's victims. Texas is awesome. Spider clones are not.
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Jan. 4, 2012, 3:19 p.m. CST
that is the gayest cover art ever. just a stupid piece of art for a dumb character.
by THE_ONE_MAN_GANG
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did he fall into a huge spider web and start posing all weird? terrible.
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Remember when it used to be the House of Ideas? That was a long, long time ago. Terrible cover, too.
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Jan. 4, 2012, 4:14 p.m. CST
Actually, I think this is really, really cool. Now if only Louisville could get it's own Marvel hero!
by The Reluctant Austinite
I'd love to buy the issue where they fight each other! Maybe Marvel could clone a Louisville hero using the DNA of Muhammad Ali.
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I haven't read comics in a long time, but it looks like a lot of artists are still inspired by McFarlane's work back in the early 90s.
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Jan. 4, 2012, 4:43 p.m. CST
Anybody else wish the spidey-clones would just fuck off and die?
by Royston Lodge
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Jan. 4, 2012, 4:51 p.m. CST
How could anybody ever question the death or continuity of a superhero?
by Jaka
Neither one of them hold any meaning, or truth. They just start over, re-boot, re-origin, re-cast, make up some bullshit about how what happened before didn't really happen. Cha-ching! Awesome!
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Imperviousness to reason and lack of intellectualism? That accusation shows a lack of intellectualism. Don't forget that NASA is based here. We were chosen to get the Superconducting Supercollider back in the 80's, which was cancelled by the national government - not the state. "Don't mess with Texas" is an anti-littering campaign, which only a few people have taken out of bounds. Have you actually spent much time in Texas and seen first hand that it is in fact characterized largely by the kinds of qualities you enumerate, or are you merely stereotyping based on some kind of limited sampling? That would be unreasonable.
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Yeah - I guess it was only a few people. Agreed on both of your last two statements.
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everyone... never, EVER say the word EMO again unless you're referencing effete, obscure stand-up comics or accidentally misspelling ELMO. *facepalm* It's getting old and far too easy a criticism.
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So the friendly neighbourhood protagonist of your new book is a multiple murderer who just happened to be a clone of Spider-Man, taking on the guise of **another** - deceased - clone of Spider-Man (who he really fucking hated while he was still alive)? With great Doc Ock-strangling power comes great responsibility or some shit. And people say comic-book continuity is impenetrable for newbies?
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Of course they rehash. The problem with that particular era was that is was at an all time high level of crappiness. They kept pulling the rug out from under us and it felt like they were just scrambling to recover from the utter mess they had created. Creative rehashing can be... ok, I guess. But that saga was a bit much. No offence to the guys working on this new tittle, but from the point of view of someone who, admittedly, hasn't read spidey in a decade, the whole spider clone junk needs to be buried, burned and forgotten. If you don't have any original ideas, and spider clones are what you choose to rehash, then you don't have anything good to write about. That's writing just for the sake of writing and shouldn't be supported. Plenty of other spidey stuff to write about before settling on anything related to THAT pile of garbage. Granted this is my opinion, but show me one person who can go on the record stating that they liked the clone saga.
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hmmm interesting outfit sheesh and all the power without the responsability?The Scarlet Spider never would be a umm(Batman)sterio type.Imight try be there 4 dis event 4 da laughs.
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When you have morons like wrath_of_spidercoz attacking stereotypes like gun-toting rednecks and fundamentalists, just say it man, you want to move here. No need for the pretend hate.
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was a bit much on most aspects of that saga but bringing out scarlet spider was a good touch.I liked the suit and the different arsenal.
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How about whiny? Morose? Gloomy? Insecure, pathetic, despondent, depressed, doleful, angst ridden...
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Jan. 4, 2012, 6:08 p.m. CST
crisp_one... Nope, sorry, yeah Texas has given us some good things, but it also gave us Lyndon Johnson & Vietnam AND Dubya Bush and Iraq!
by mdk
Sorry, fuck Texas!
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Jan. 4, 2012, 6:20 p.m. CST
When I was a kid I asked Chris Claremont at a convention
by Crimson Dynamo
why there where no super heroes set in Houston, and he said "What would they do - fight giant roaches?"
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Jan. 4, 2012, 6:24 p.m. CST
There's not a huge downton in Houston to swing through
by Crimson Dynamo
Should have given Moon Knight to Houston
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Or will this book involve lots of traveling? Don't know why I want to know, since I won't be reading it. I wish someone could make a live action spider-man TV show with storylines and such. Don't need movie re-hashes or comic book re-hashes though.
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Yeah, we've got a few. One is called The Fifth Ward. We've also got all of those oil refineries, and I'm sure the toxic waste byproducts have created a few supervillians.
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in a creatively bankrupt cash grabby hollywood studio sorta way.
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My scarlet spider sense says no.
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I know I have all of those clone saga books, and I remember how mired down they got. I had no idea any of the clones were still kicking around.
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I hate that clone shit. Marvel has really screwed up Spidey with the clone shit and the Spider-Wasp/magic nonsense. I miss when Spidey was just a geek that happened to be bitten by a radioactive spider. There was no rhyme or reason to it, just happenstance. All clones must die!
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There was no room for interpretation when Ben Reilly turned to ashes right in front of Peter Parker's eyes. Unless this new Scarlet Spider is yet another person who's gained radioactive spider powers.
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I feared the comic book audience would never accept the mindfuck that the guy who survived fighting the Jackal in 1974 was actually the clone, not the original Spiderman. I was disappointed, but not surprised, when Marvel later backtracked and made Ben the clone again.
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Jan. 4, 2012, 11:07 p.m. CST
kidicarus - I grew up in Oregon and California surrounded by un-toting rednecks fundamentalists (no and) from Texas
by Jaka
So, ya know, they existed at one time. Granted, that was 20-30 years ago and the times they do keep changing. Also, I would never have assumed that EVERYONE from Texas was like those people. It would have been a terribly sad place if that was the case, believe me. Lastly, the whole Texas Secession Movement doesn't really help give people a positive image of your state. <p> I do actually agree with you, though, because people think California is a particular way, too. They're usually mighty surprised to find out it ain't exactly what they heard it was. Mostly because it's about 1000 different things, as I'm sure holds true for Texas, as well.
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Always have, always will. So my comment had more to do with my general abhorrence toward the genre than Spider-Man in particular. However, I do remember the years of people standing around the comics shops bitching about clones and I too thought we were done with all that. From reading this talkback it sounds like they may not be using that crutch here.
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How about the Texas Twister? (Bwah-ha-ha!)
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Public transportation sucks in Houston. I guess Scarlet Spidey (what a shit name) will just have to walk. Or stay within 3-4 blocks of the UHDowntown campus.
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Here is the wiki link for those interested. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaine
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We have had our own super hero here in houston his name is Rook he is known as Houstons best dressed super hero, if you knew your comic book history you would know this.
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We gave you Tommy Lee Jones, Forest Whitaker, Dennis and Randy Quaid, Jamie Foxx, Bill Paxton, Steve Martin, Wes Anderson, Robert Rodriguez, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, Tex Avery, LOTS of other people you know and respect.
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What's with the Blue Hoodie?!?
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...ID Software the guys that started the FPS Genre. without them there would be no Call of Duty,Battlefield and a few other gazillion FPS Games out there. Also the guys who were responsible for Bloodrayne originated from The Lone Star State. That saying, I'm still no fan of Texas and the Dallas Cowboys suck. That's right, I said it.
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When the Drill Sergeant played so brilliantly by Lee Emory berated Private Joker and mentioned something about a reach around, my ribs were hurting from laughter. Well played.
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FUCK HIM
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Jan. 5, 2012, 10:36 a.m. CST
Austin's superhero could be a hipster UT communications major, with a superpowered fixie bike
by kidicarus
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He spits chew that blinds his foes and lassos them with a rope that makes them tell the truth. And he says Dagnabbit citizens of Houston! behave or I gonna done slap you silly an' eat yer supper!!
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Jan. 5, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
Sigh. Dumb idea, waste of time, nothing original, will be gone in months.
by kevred
Come up with your own ideas, already. PLEASE.
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Jan. 6, 2012, 3:05 p.m. CST
What about the superteam "The Rangers?" You know, Texas Twister and all them...
by Triple_J_72
Or did they disband? I know, I'm out of the loop.
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the scarlet spider may have seem to died in the clone saga but never seen him(Ben) put on the suit n go out to fight.could have been the last clone but who really knows.Ben would never use the power thinking he does not have to be responsable for his actions.
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While I don't expect the character to last for very long, I hope that this is a sign that Marvel is looking to spread their heroes out around the 50 states (and maybe the world) mores than before now.
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We made it through the 90s once and it damn near killed the industry with it's glut of titles no one wants to read, excessive crossovers, stupid gimmicks and bad spinoff characters. And because Marvel and DC never seem to learn anything, here we are again with a glut of titles no one wants to read, excessive crossovers, stupid gimmicks and bad spinoff characters. This guy is actually proud of creating X-23? X-23 should be tossed back into the pit of bad fanfiction Yost pulled her out of. Make no mistake, every kid who grew up in the 90s wrote a crappy story about a character that was Wolverine's son or daughter. It was almost a fanboy rite of passage in the 90s. And while we are talking about Wolverine's kids, we should toss Daken back into the pit as well. And when the industry crashes AGAIN hopefully Marvel and DC will finally learn from their mistakes.
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