Archive | February, 2013

The Saturday Comics: The Spanish Spider-Man

2 Feb

February 2, 2013

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The Spanish Spider-Man is not a new title, nor is it a new character.

Marvel is pretty transparent when it comes to political correctness. Aside from the white male Peter Parker, they’ve tried to make multi-cultural versions of Spidey for “wider markets.”

After Peter Parker’s death in Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #160 a new character by the name of Miles Morales takes up the mantle of Spider-Man as a black thirteen-year-old superhero.

Spider-Man 2099: A geneticist named Miguel O’Hara gained his spider-like powers from a gene-splicing incident.

Spider-Man: India is a comic book originally published in India by Gotham Entertainment Group in 2004, retelling the story of Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man in an Indian setting.

The Spider-Girl comic book series, originally published under the MC2 imprint, features May “Mayday” Parker, Peter’s daughter in an alternate continuity.

However, this Spanish Spider-Man is nothing like that. These are reprints of the Amazing Spider-Man comic translated into Spanish and branded as El Asombroso Hombre-Arana. I don’t know when these first began to appear, but they started at number one and continued well into the modern era. The title may still be published, though I can’t verify that. So check out the gallery below of El Asombroso Hombre-Arana and enjoy.

Click on the thumbnails for full-size images.

Imponderable #79: Urbana Ohio

1 Feb

February 1, 2013

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Time travel gives me a headache.

Let’s let The Doctor explain it.

What amazes me here is the Ohio police. They pick a guy up for DUI and let him back on the street, drunk and behind the wheel, a mere hour later? Justice is swift in Urbana, so swift that there was no time for the guy to sleep it off in the drunk tank, it seems. What’s up with the cops just bringing him in and letting him go? Catch and release works for bass fishing tournaments, not policing the citizenry.

And when he was picked up the second time, all they gave him was another citation?

How drunk are the cops in Urbana Ohio?
The question is Imponderable.