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Today's been... interesting. But nowhere as near as interesting as Tuesday's gonna be. :)

From Spider-Man at noon to math tuition at four then rounding up the day with dinner with the extended family at seven thirty. I have just one thing to say:

SPIDER-MAN 3 ADVANCE TICKETS!

My mom called me a dorky fan. I am so insulted. I can't help it that Spidey's sooooo uber cool. and before anybody says it, I'm NOT a Tobey fan! I hate him. hatehimhatehimhatehim. with his weak chin and pasty face. UGH, he's awful for Spidey. He was alright for the first movie coz' Spidey didn't start out uber buff and cool but the beauty of the series has in part been Peter Parker's metamorphesis into a pretty cool guy even if he started out a dorky nerd. Tobey has unfortunately stayed dorky.

Too, why is Eddie Brock not mega-buff? The whole point is the Symbiote enhances your existing strength. And Venom was stronger than Spidey in part because Brock was always a muscle man. I know he wasn't in ultimate Spidey and that's more I wanna gripe about. Honestly, I miss the gritiness of the old, traditional Spider-Man. Things like Maximum Carnage, Kraven's Last Hunt, the Goblin saga, the Clone saga, House of M... It feels like Ultimate's pussy-footing around it. But then again... ultimate Spidey is for a different time, a different generation, a different world.

The way I see it, it seems that the big favourite for the old school Spidey was psycho paths and the end of the world. Now... the psychopaths, the possible end of civilization as we know it, that's all real. 9/11 changed alot of things. So now the new generation of Spidey (and really, most of Marvel) (I'm talking about the ultimate series) is focusiong more on the "what happened before the world blew up". Sorta the changes that led to the storm I guess.

Or the ultimate folks may have just decided they want a more kid-friendly thing. Maybe Ultimate Spidey will get darker as it gets older and "grows up" as a series but right now, it's alot of teen-angst. But it still rules.

Though I really, really miss old-school Carnage and Venom.

Wow, and I thought I couldn't do long posts...

Oh yeah, found Cheng Jie and Sohpia's blogs. :) From Stoofy of course.