One Very Small Step

Apparently I am not meant to sleep. Ever. Over the last couple weeks I have seen the sun rise more times than not (five times this week). My early morning tweets and facebook updates have entertained many of you, and enraged others (I'd say I'm sorry but I'm not). But all this non-sleep has given me a lot of time to catch up on a few things that I have been neglecting. Admittedly none of those things are worth mentioning due to the fact that they don't matter to anyone but me.

Still, I'm amazed at just how naive some people are about the internet and its lasting effect on their lives. I mean, I'm sure "Two Girls, One Cup" seemed liked a good idea at the time, but do you really think that those girls will put that little flick on their resumes in the future? Then there are the people who plaster their random thoughts across the world wide web without taking any future consequences into consideration. I like to think there is a special office in Washington D.C. dedicated to these people. It is governed by the Secretary of Dumbassery and has a picture of Neville Chamberlain hanging above the desk. In this X-Filesesque office are stacks and stacks of ridiculous emails people forwarded to their friends and family about Velveeta cheese being one molecule away from being plastic, Photoshoped pictures of El Chupacabra, and a copy of Obama's health care reform plan. All of these fictitious items are being studied by said SoD in hopes of finding a connection between the loss of rational human thought and the proliferation of this fleeting thing we call internet fame. I hope the Secretary of Dumbassery has a good health care plan that covers mental health as well as gastrointestinal issues. He's gonna need it.

I'm a Slacker, I know

I've been lazy about keeping this blog up to date...well pretty much from the beginning. Some cool stuff is happening as well as some cool stuff that is upcoming. Nothing I want to get into right now (believe me, I've been called a tease A LOT in my life). Make sure and check out the Cinegeek and Con Trek websites as well as my other links over there on the left for more details. One thing you may notice that's changed is my MySpace link. I no longer have a personal page on that oh, so 2005 social network, but the link takes you to something else that I'm trying to kick start. So go check it out and let me know what you think.

I have noticed that I'm reaching a worldwide audience here. This blog has been viewed in England, Taiwan, Croatia, Turkey and Italy. Oh, yeah, and Canada. But they're not a real country so it doesn't count. All your hockey are belong to us!!

The Life of Reilly

The other night on the Cinegeek podcast (which you can download at www.cinegeek.com) we talked a bit about the Clone Saga that ran in the Spider-Man comics in the mid-90s. I have been doing a little investigating these last couple days and found this: http://lifeofreillyarchives.blogspot.com

I won't go into all the gory detail on how this storyline nearly destroyed the Spider-Man mythos or how it has become the poster child for what was wrong with the 90's comic industry. Instead I want to focus a bit on the Scarlet Spider.



Ben Reilly came out of bad situation. Being a clone of Peter Parker can't be easy. I mean the pressure of being a superhero, not to mention being married to a super model, has to be hard on a man. But I liked Ben. He was a freer version of Peter. No wife, no elderly Aunt to take care of, no financial issues. really he did have the best of both worlds. I liked it even more once we doned the Scarlet Spider outfit. I mean, c'mon, that sleeveless hoodie screams 90's. And I love the 90's. Plus he eventually joined the New Warriors who were one of my favorite super groups of the 90's. Hell, the first issue of their comic said it all:



So, this new "Spider-Man" joins an up-and-coming superhero group and what happens? Not much really. The editorial staff at Marvel tried to replace Peter with Ben and the fans lost their shit. So Marvel back peddled and brought the original Peter Parker back into the role of Spider-Man and killed Ben Reilly. But we all know how this goes in the comic book world. rumor has it that Ben Reilly is coming back to the Spider-Man universe. for the first time since the "One More Day" debacle I am looking forward to a Spider-Man comic. If only Marvel would have the foresight to give the Scarlet Spider his own series and let Matt Fraction write it. A boy can dream....