Does anyone here have anything to say about the Stan'n'Larry , etc. , THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN newspaper strip ?
It has pumped and pumped along for many years , and since , it still stays with a Petey who is marries to MJ , who knows his secret identity and a Daily Planet where JJJ and Robbie are chiefs , it represents quite a different Spidey-World even apart from the fact that it has a;ways been stated as " taking place in a differnt continuity " !
Since it is now publically sted that Roy Thomas provides script assist to Stan , and has done so for some time now , but now is receiving , obviously , permission to discuss it ( Though he does not receive a credit . )...it is " Marvel old home week " , in a sense...
Larry Leiber is still the daily strip's artist , and it occurs to me that , since , IIRC , he's been on the strip about 20 years , he may well be the most prolofic Spidey artist/may have drawn more Spidey images for professional publication than any other artist ever .
The present storyline featurs Morbius .
The strip still does stay in an essentially SA/early Bronze vesion of Spidey ( Even taking into account the marriage . ) and...well , John Updike liked it !!!!!!!!! Is it the most euccessful , I suppose in circulation of the newspapers carrying it , daily continuity strip remaining ?????????
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I read it in my daily paper. It is sometimes interesting, sometimes maddening, sometimes zany.
Like the storyline before the current one featuring Morbius, the Living Vampire. In that tale, the Mole Man come to the surface and kidnaps Mary Jane because he wants a bride! That's crazy enough, but then we take a left turn at Albuquerque because Aunt May winds up going along for the ride ... and falls for the Mole Man, out of compassion for his obvious loneliness!
Spider-Man goes to the Baxter Building for help and comes back with The Thing, and they go underground to bring back Mary Jane and Aunt May -- and Aunt May won't leave! So, instead, they go get a minister to perform a wedding!
... and the whole time, I'm wondering: Just what drugs is Stan taking?
While I would have been surprised if they DIDN'T do some kind of Broadway tie-in because after all, the show has been in the works for months before the troubles started (or at least became public) overall I like the strip.
Peter and MJ are married, life overall is happy for them, and the comic has even pulled in other characters from time to time, like the Thing's recent guest starring role when Aunt May was kidnapped to be the bride of the Mole Man.
...Let's have a ppermanent link up HERE to there !.........
http://www.deepwoods.tk/
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