{"id":578,"date":"2005-11-06T23:53:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T03:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=578"},"modified":"2007-07-31T07:52:21","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T11:52:21","slug":"ipod-and-spider-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nomes.malcolm-x.org\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"iPod and Spider-Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to Toys ‘R’ Us today and saw that they finally had the Sentinel Series<\/a>‘ Spider-Man figure. So I bought it (naturally).<\/p>\n

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Here’s Spidey standing on my Landmark Thucydides<\/a> text from POL323 (Thucydides, he’s the guy who wrote about the Peloponnesian War about 400-odd years B.C.).<\/p>\n

As you can see, they tried to reproduce the characteristic webbing that Spidey has under his arms, as can be seen on the cover of Amazing Fantasy #15<\/a> (the first Spidey comic, which, by the way, the action figure is based on).<\/p>\n

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They got it down to some degree, but it’s basically achieved by throwing a whole net over Spidey’s back (which I haven’t pictured).<\/p>\n

At any rate, it’s an improvement over the older Spidey figure they released that was ostensibly patterned on the same comics. Problems: the spider emblem on the chest is remarkably modern (started in the late eighties), and the webbing pattern on the mask isn’t drawn properly — in the more stylized Spidey that soon appeared, the webbing above the eyes splits into two and the webbing below the eyes emerges as one column; whereas in the first few Spidey comics the webbing splits in two columns above and below the eyes. In fact, that’s one of my pet peeves: when people draw Spidey, they completely mess up the webbing pattern on his face (if not everything else).<\/p>\n

Otherwise, I’d say this older Spidey actually managed to capture the way Steve Ditko drew the eyes in most of the first comics until John Romita took over.<\/p>\n


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I would’ve bought the Black Panther<\/a> as well, but I don’t like the costume he’s wearing in this one (I prefer the pared down, non-cape, non-golden accessories version).<\/p>\n

A few days ago, in Markville Mall I found this (unlicensed) Spidey toque, and I had to have it. So here it is, as modeled by me, standing in front of my Spider-Man calendar.<\/p>\n

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In other news, I called the iPod folks and they said they’d repair or replace my iPod. If they replace it, I’m going to get a case for it this time so it doesn’t scratch up every time it moves.<\/p>\n

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I went to Toys ‘R’ Us today and saw that they finally had the Sentinel Series‘ Spider-Man figure. So I bought it (naturally). Here’s Spidey standing on my Landmark Thucydides text from POL323 (Thucydides, he’s the guy who wrote about the Peloponnesian War about 400-odd years B.C.). As you can see, they tried to reproduce […]<\/p>\n

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