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"So you announced publicly that you, Peter Parker, are Spider-Man?" Peter Parker grinned. 'I just felt people should know who I am, you know? It gets tiring keeping all these secrets to myself. And now that I'm retiring from being a super hero it seems silly to fret about it.' ‘Well, if you don’t mind,’ said Australian cop Officer Franklin, ‘I feel I ought to get out of here.’ The young man who'd publicly revealed himself to be Spider-Man on his first day in Australia, he told himself yet again, was decidedly unsafe. ‘I hope you don’t think I’m running out — ’ ‘I do,’ said Peter promptly. ‘And I commend you for it. First sign of logical thinking I’ve detected in you. But you’re missing a great chance, you know.’ He playfully punched the officer through the car's window. ‘The first man I ever fought with was Dr. Doom, forty-two years ago. Wouldn’t you like to be the last?’ Officer Franklin hesitated. He was amused, and astonished, and a little touched. He looked into the mischievous, grinning old face, then shook his head. ‘I think you and your wife ought to ride in alone’ he said gently, ‘And with the hood down.’ He reached into the car and shook the young man’s hand, and then walked back into the crowd. The police had succeeded in clearing the crowd from round Parker's car, and a long aisle between to people ran fairly clear to the gates of The Lodge; police were moving in it, ushering them to keep it clear. At a word from Parker the convertible's hood was retracted, and with the superhero leaning back comfortably in one corner the car rolled slowly forward. The crowd had begun to sing again, willing the Prime Minister to come out on the balcony; as the car pulled away, Mary Jane was waving to him with her crooked grin; the crowd jostled forward into the space where the car had been, but Officer Franklin, craning, could see over their heads. With policeman half-running on either side, and Sergeant Rooney pacing ahead on his horse, the car was moving into the open gates held back by the blue-coated police; the singing was thundering up in full-throated ecstatic chorus, and he could just glimpse the brown hair above the back seat and Peter's raised hand solemnly waving in time to the music: Spiderman, Spiderman, Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size. Catches thieves- just like flies. Look out! Here comes the Spiderman! The car was lost to sight as it turned through the gates and made towards The Lodge, even as the lights on the balcony came up again and the Prime Minister's family reappeared. The singing swelled to a triumphant climax; Officer Franklin could imagine the Minister glimpsing the car with its eccentric occupant as it sped across the open space before The Lodge — what in God’s name was the kid going to say when he got inside and The Lodge's minions discovered he was an entirely unauthorised visitor bent only on relieving himself? Officer Franklin could not guess — but he had no doubt Peter Parker would be able to recover from head injuries sustained. He'd had a lot of practice. Flaccid French Fry fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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i would have put good odds on peter fighting an actual kangaroo at some point in this arc. he'd lose, of course.
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Mar 23, 2019 00:23
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The end of all eras. We didn't even get a proper ending.
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The end! No moral.
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The moral is Spidey hit the jackpot.
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shedding a tiny tear for our brick-brained boy
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And another of the scant remaining good things in the world has died.
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Mar 23, 2019 00:56
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Next: Feels!
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Possible events we will never see: - NSM greets an emu, believing it to be an australian person, gets his spine kicked in half - NSM throws a boomerang, knocks himself unconscious - NSM rides in a kangaroo's pouch, because there's nothing to swing from in the outback - The actual villain Kangaroo doesn't show up until 2 months into the story. He immediately kicks NSM's spine in half - Uncle Wombat???
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Libra posted:Possible events we will never see: Best thing is because of the slowness of the strip he would throw the boomerang and then in our real time not get hit by it until a week later.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
I am so frustrated he didn't say one lucky tiger
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I've mostly lurked, but this has been my favorite thread on the forums since I discovered it. My only regret is that I didn't discover it sooner. Thank you, everyone, for the shops, reactions, and jokes.
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I don't want to invite copyright infringement but aren't there decades of the strip already drawn? And lots of goons good at Photoshop? Just sayin...
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Synthbuttrange posted:
I'm honestly happy these two get to go off into a vacation forever. This strip and thread was a gift, sucks that it has to go, but I'm glad it's ending on a wholesome note. Now to cut together panels to make an australian adventure.
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Scaramouche posted:I don't want to invite copyright infringement but aren't there decades of the strip already drawn? And lots of goons good at Photoshop? Just sayin... Sadly NSM is the type of thing it takes decades of comic book writing experience to produce.
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Mar 23, 2019 05:51
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I wish there was a full shot of that newspaper, I want to make it my avatar in memoriam ;_;
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Mar 23, 2019 06:42
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Here's hoping Pete is getting bricks to the head in heaven.
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Mar 23, 2019 07:30
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Thank you for being a friends, NSM.
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Mar 23, 2019 07:34
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The real brick was the friends we made along the way.
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It's been a busy week for Peter since he had to ride the subway back from upstate New York, but now he can finally relax and enjoy himself. RIP, NSM. And at least it was a better ending than Castle.
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Mar 23, 2019 08:51
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RIP, Newspaper Spider-Man. I'm going to memorialise this moment... With a selfie! And Spidey's powerless to stop me! 
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I wish I got this strip in the papers. I'd cut out a Sunday strip and try to get the team to sign it.
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Mar 23, 2019 10:39
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Next: Spider-Jane!
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Maybe Newspaper Miles? Two septuagenarian white men writing a half black/half latino teenager. There's no way that would be painfully awkward.
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Spiderman Noir. Spidey punches a different Nazi every day and drinks egg creams on Sundays.
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evilmiera posted:Spiderman Noir. Spidey punches a different Nazi every day and drinks egg creams on Sundays. I like this. A lot.
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And he always has a mysterious dramatic wind blowing right when he needs it.
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Proteus Jones posted:Maybe Newspaper Miles? I love this idea and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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Here's a slightly longer version of Roy Thomas' retrospective. Apparently Stan Lee was personally responsible for reverting the 'no marriage' thing. https://www.bleedingcool.com/2019/03/23/last-spider-man-newspaper-strip-writer-roy-thomas/ quote:Mostly, though, Stan and I got along fine. For the most part, he liked what I submitted, accepted most (not all) of my ideas for stories… and until a few years ago often “suggested” (or insisted upon) alterations in them. For some years, he would rewrite a panel or balloon here and there, or even more… while other dailies or Sundays would sail through without a single word change.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
drat it Roy, you're not supposed to look directly at the camera Roy Thomas:  Alex Saviuk: 
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you can tell it's fake by how peter seems to remember things that happened in previous strips. if it was real he'd get home, then start shouting about how this mysterious redhead might suspect he is spiderman.
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It's loving me up pretty bad because it could honestly fit perfectly with the strip's "present" if we ignored last week.
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:you can tell it's fake by how peter seems to remember things that happened in previous strips. ArmyOfMidgets posted:It's loving me up pretty bad because it could honestly fit perfectly with the strip's "present" if we ignored last week. Maybe I took a brick to the head and forgot, but I don't think any of those events actually happened? Everyone seemed to know Kilgrave was a supervillain already, and there wasn't any mention that Spider-Man's name was being dragged through the mud. Heck, when the cops showed up during the break-in, they specifically said they just thought it was someone else wearing his costume.
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Synthbuttrange posted:
The bugle headline is what gets me
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It's a shame Roy Thomas did not like what the Captain Marvel movie did with the Skrulls, because his radical revision of Mole Man is better than the main comics.
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People should stop asking elderly creators what they think of new, different stories, it feels like doing that is only valuable if you're fishing for controversy clicks if they say something clumsily or are honestly critical like Alan Moore.
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