Sneak Peek of the Week of February 3rd, 2013

3 Feb

February 3, 2013

KFC-Colonel-SandersThe time: February 3rd, around dinner time
The place: Somewhere in the Deep South
The characters:
        1-  Old-fashioned Southern Colonel type. Think a cross between Col. Sanders and Foghorn Leghorn with some Col. Tom Parker thrown in
        2- Another old-fashioned Southern colonel type. Exactly the same as the first one.

Col. #1: Well I do say so, Rhett my boy, I show-do say so.
Col. #2: What is that you show-do say, I say, Wilkes, I say, what is it that you say?
Col. #1: Well Rhett, I say, I really do say my boy, I say that this here Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride sure is a peach of a belle, so to speak, if indeed a website named for a man can be compared to a woman, sir, I say, that I do.
Col. #2: I do declare that I do recall one day that Southern boy was fooling around with his guitar- he plays the guitar, you know, and he just up and came out with the darndest thing.
Col.#1: Which Southern boy would that be? It seems to me that indeed there is no shortage of Southern boys here in the Deep South, Land of Cotton, Home of Civility, Bosom of the Confederacy, and so forth and so on I say I say I say.
Col. #2: Lord a Mighty, man, for sure it can only be the one that I caught in the back forty with my little Lulubelle!
Col. #1: Well I’ll be a goll-darned Northern Yankee!

And on and on. It goes on like that for four pages, believe it or not. To make it up to you, I’ll be concise with this week’s Sneak Peek. You’ll get disappointing movies, disappointing, pooping criminals, and a poop-related iPod.

And if I can at all do so, I plan to work the phrase “Great shades of Satan!” into every post this week. Think I can do it?

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.