Is he strong? Listen, chum...

[avram]

So Spider-man kills Mary Jane by fucking her to death with his radioactive jizm! Seriously, that’s a plot point in issue #3 of Spider-Man: Reign. Set 35 years in the future, a sort of Spider-Mannish rip-off of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns, so it’s not in mainstream continuity, but still. I guess they figure Warren Ellis sells well, let’s all try that gonzo shit.

No, no spoiler warning. Do you worry that a loaf of moldy bread or a carton of rancid milk will spoil? No, you don’t, because they’re already damn spoiled.

This is why I don’t read superhero comics. Much.

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Didn't they do something similar at the end of PAD's Hulk run, when Betty seemed to die because she'd soaked up toomuch of Bruce's gamma rays over the years (albeit through general contact)?

[avram]

That's something I would totally not know, since I don't read superhero comics much.

[stormsweeper.livejournal.com]

"Like a spider, crawling up inside your body and laying a thousand eggs of cancer... I killed you."

::dies::

[mark-argent.livejournal.com]

Reign has to be the worst comic I've read in years.

[batyatoon]

I think I hate you for that subject line.

[avram]

I wrote the post just so I could use that subject line.

[merlewhitefire.livejournal.com]

*Ambles onto small stage, shuffling papers. Steps up to microphone, adjusts glasses, clears throat. Unfolds papers*

Radiation does not work that way.

Thank you.

*Ambles off-stage*

[avram]

The whole getting-spider-powers thing, though, that's realistic.

[victor-von.livejournal.com]

As has been pointed out elsewhere, in the Marvel universe, all radiation does is give you powers. In my version of events, she's the spectacular Spider Wife. Not a good idea, but at least it's possible to interpret the concept as "fun."