song+ Stutter- Maroon 5- Hands All Over
book+ Ultimate Spider-Man. all of it. ever.
quest+ getting ready to sew again
upper+ i've passed 10k words!
downer+ i'm still not quite feeling normal again
attire+ pajama pants and a tank top
drink+ milk
i've spent the last two days reading the entirety of Ultimate Spider-Man again from the beginning. why is it SO MUCH better than the regular version? more than 150 issues, all with the same writer and a good chunk of it with the same artist, and it isn't bad yet. even the stories based (mostly) on versions from the regular continuity, like the origin and the Clone Saga were infinitely better in the Ultimate universe.
also Ultimate Gwen Stacy is infinitely cooler than anyone else and she totally deserves to be happy now. first her dad died at the hands of a Spider-Man impostor and her mom abandoned her, then she's (thankfully) taken in by Aunt May, only to be violently killed by a rogue genetic monstrosity, after that she's cloned from the remains of her corpse and given the powers of the thing that killed her. even worse, after escaping the facility where she was held and experimented on for months she had those powers violently ripped away and returned to May and Peter in time to survive the cataclysm that wrecked New York, only to have some shapeshifting jerk impersonate her boyfriend and break her heart? after all that's cleared up, she runs away to find her mom only to be told TO HER FACE that she's not loved or wanted by her, returning to her adopted home where she now has to live with and be friends with her ex-boyfriend while he maybe starts to date the girl he's really loved all along again. she could really use some happiness. even if she wasn't awesome incarnate, her wardrobe would win me over. one issue she's wearing a lavender tank and a camo skirt with clunky boots, she rocks it SO hard. anyone else i'd wonder what they were thinking, but she makes it work somehow.
i'm really loving what's more or less beome Aunt May's Halfway House for Homeless Teenage Superheroes though. in one house you've got Johnny (Human Torch) Storm, Bobby (Iceman) Drake, Peter (Spider-Man) Parker himself, and Gwen (formerly Carnage) Stacy. there's also Kitty (Shadowcat) Pryde somewhere in the area on the run since being a mutant is illegal, the family of Rick (Nova) Jones down the street, and until she left to be an X-Man a while ago Liz (Firestar) Allen too. plus now there's the whole Peter being trained by other superheroes, so there's a possibility of Iron Man dropping by- entirely failing to realize how that could endanger a secret identity. it was played for laughs when this glaring oversight is pointed out to him and he loudly thanks May for directions and leaves. xD
i love Ultimate Spidey because it's so much more FUN. even when he angsts, it's not as bad since you kinda expect it of him, being a teenager and all. Peter's complete inability to maintain his secret identity is pretty awesome too. xD i love that since the huge wave trashed New York the book's been Spidey and his Amazing Friends, it keeps it much fresher, i think. i am looking forward to Cloak and Dagger eventually showing up though. Tandy (Dagger) Bowen's been mentioned since around issue 50 or 60, i think, and she actually showed up as a student at the beginning of the Chameleon arc, but i'm REALLY hoping we see her get powers. i wanna know if it'd hit her as hard as it did Liz. when you're mutantphobic and suddenly you're an X-Man, there's a good deal of re-evaluating to do. i think similarly, since Tandy thinks she's better than genetic anomalies (Kitty) and social misfits (Peter/Gwen and possibly MJ), if she found herself lowered to being one of them i think there would be a moral/mental break and it could be a REALLY good story. also i'm almost positive that Cloak and Dagger first appeared in a Spidey comic, but i'm not absolutely sure. i'd look it up, but Wikipedia always distracts me. xD
so yeah.. Ultimate Spider-Man is awesome, and my opinions on it are clearly of great importance and must therefore be shared with everyone ever. everyone should read it. everyone. xD
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You are so much fun! Even though I have no idea what you are talking about (I do recognize a few of the names, more than you would suspect), I love that I can hear you saying all this.
I think that whole post was in Hobbit. I did recognize some X-Men names though. Mhhm Hugh Jackman.
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