Spider-Man II trailer is out. Nice Doc Ock footage, but they’re clearly also maintaining the Pete/MJ stuff, too. Cool.
(Streaming Flash trailer, very high contention, as you might imagine.)
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Spider-Man II trailer is out. Nice Doc Ock footage, but they’re clearly also maintaining the Pete/MJ stuff, too. Cool. (Streaming Flash trailer, very high contention, as you might imagine.) (via…
And, of course, Marvel has already changed Ock’s look to mimic the film character’s.
Worse, they’re retconning it! AAARGH!
Actually, the Ock-on-Ock action in AS was pretty well done, I thought. That was really the intro of the “new” Ock look, wasn’t it?
If by “Ock-on-Ock action” you mean the introduction of that tentacled upstart last year, then no. Octavius was in his green jumpsuit (albeit without the garish orange belt), and the new guy seemed to have green armor of some sort.
The “new” look actually appeared in the Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure mini, currently running, which takes place back when Gwen was still alive. No way did Doc Ock dress like a Matrix fugitive back then! And fake suckers on the tentacles? I’m shaking with disgust and revulsion.
Seems that Marvel has given continuity the bum’s rush. I mean, I could deal with May being Pete’s real mom if I had to, but the idea that she’s only twenty or so years older than him is ridiculous! (Maybe Trouble is set in an alternate universe. It is an Epic title. Yeah, that’s it! Alternate universe! Please?)
Ah, yes. I recall now. Yeah. Marvel retcons. Hrm.
Problem is, I agree with a desire to not let continuity strait-jacket you into implausibility (any more implausible than force-beam eyes, proportionate spider-strength, or radiation poisoning that’s not lethal). I say that even though I’m as much of a continuity monkey as the next guy.
The problem is, it seems to be either/or at Marvel. Either we must slavishly adhere to forty years of funny books (which, magically, are supposed to be only 5-10 years of Real Time, despite how many Christmases have been celebrated), or it’s all a free-for-all, and Doc Ock can be a Matrix reject and Peter wore a mohawk in high school and … well, I could go on, but I tend to avoid the Ultimate universe (among other egregious examples), so I won’t.
Anyway …