Turns out they slapped the name on an original character. Typical for Sony with or without Marvel Studios.
Madame Web isn’t even a well know character in the Marvel universe. If it wasn’t for the 90s Spider-Man cartoon I couldn’t tell you who she is. The original was Cassandra Web and the current is former Spider-Woman II Julia Carpenter. The one in Sony’s namesake movie is named Cassandra but looks like Julia, who is one of the various lady spider heroes that she’s supposed to protect. and there is nothing accurate about any of them. Also one of the characters is annoying and I already don’t like her. Apparently the only teenage black girl that exists in Hollywood is sassy to the point of obnoxious. They need to get out and meet real people. There’s more variety in personality when it comes to black teens.
This is all I’m planning to say about this movie. It’s Sony’s Spiderverse’s version of the Harley Quinn movie, where nobody matches their actual personality in the comics and what we get is a poor replacement for better characters. That’s what the current trailer’s telling me, anyway.
Over at The Clutter Reports this week my original project proved to be unnecessary so I just did something to have an article this week. I’m more accepting of my fate there because it’s a different kind of project than what I’m doing here.
So this is an almost full week. The second to last chapter of Batman: Knightfall, the second anniversary catch-up article because I missed a few years, and beginning the lore dump of Transformers: Beast Machines season one for this week’s installment of Beast Machine Hunters. That gives me two days to play with. Should be interesting Tuesday and Wednesday, though hopefully it’ll be interesting the other days as well.
I have, however, hit a snag. The site I was using to get the originally free released classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics doesn’t have any more issues. I’m still searching the hopes I can pick this up, but that means for the time being I’m going to the comics I haven’t reviewed, and I did all the Color Classics reprints when they came out, as part of either the weekly reviews or Today’s Comic. That means I’m going to go through what I have in the Archie run, with the crossover with the actual Archie characters set for a Scanning My Collection article. Too bad. I have the “Return To New York storyline in the Color Classics, but I only own two issues of the original run, and they weren’t great issues. If I have time to go through the whole list and come up goose eggs I’ll review those two prior to the Archie run. As of this writing I don’t have time to get this post out on time knowing which is which. You’ll know by 12 noon ET Monday.
Have a great week, everyone! And an early Happy Thanksgiving to my US readership.
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