My 6 Favorite Spider-Man Villains
I honestly think that Spider-Man has the best Rogues Gallery in comics. Batman may have the Joker and Catwoman, and the X-Men may have Magneto, but nobody does super-villains like Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. He’s got big bads like Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus, but he’s also got a metric ton of medium to minor-sized foes who have been tussling with the wall-crawler for decades.
There’s just so many of them!
I’ve done a list of my favorite Batman villains previously, and this week I’m in the mood to explore some of Spidey’s better bad guys. A lot of them have been brought back from the dead in the pages of Clone Conspiracy, and we’ve finally had it confirmed that the Vulture will likely be the main villain in the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming movie. So this is a pretty good time to take a look at some of my all-time favorite Spider-Man villains!
The Greatest Skyrim Video of All Time, By Dan Bull and Harry Partridge
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim just released a special edition last month, with updated graphics and other fanciness. I’ve played hundreds of hours in Skyrim, creating half a dozen different characters, because it’s an incredibly fun game. Since I bought all the DLC previously, I was gifted with the new Special Edition for free! I’ll get around to playing it eventually once I figure out a new character to create.
While I’m waiting, two Internet legends, Dan Bull and Harry Partridge, have teamed up for an amazing video about the Special Edition. You may remember these guys from Dan Bull’s Skyrim Epic Rap and Harry Partridge’s awesome Skyrim songs! And the Dovahkids!
Now they’re together and making true magic!
This takes me back! This is good video. It’s like two great masters of the Internet have come together to make the world an even better place!
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The Two Reasons Why I Kinda Didn’t Care For Young Justice
Part of me was never going to write this article. I didn’t watch Young Justice when it was on the air, because that’s just not how I watch TV anymore. Instead, I caught up with all of season two at a later date, and when it was over and cancelled, I was pretty sure I understood why. I intended to write an article explaining my thoughts, but I just kept putting it off until it was beyond relevant.
Now that Young Justice has been confirmed as rising from the dead for a third season, this is probably my best chance to explain why I just didn’t care for the show, especially after season 2.
There’s nothing wrong with sidekicks
Don’t get me wrong, Young Justice is a fine show, and any comic book fan should be thrilled at the breadth of material that was brought to glorious cartoon life. As a Robin fan in particular, how cool was it that the show is going full Robin? With Nightwing, Tim Drake and Jason Todd’s death all part of the proceeding?
That’s good stuff.
Better than B:TAS
But I was largely disappointed with Young Justice season 2 for two very important reasons. Reasons that, I feel, were such a detriment to the show that I understood why it was cancelled — aside from that whole toy issue, which sounds like a perfectly legitimate (albeit stupid) reason for a network to cancel a cartoon like Young Justice.
It got too big.
And it got too mean.
The big thing about season 2 was that the show took a five year jump in time between seasons. This allowed the writers to jump right into new storylines, while also introducing a ton of new characters. And while I’m sure a lot of fans loved this, I felt it hurt the show in the long run.
Join me after the jump for my thoughts.
Darth Maul’s Getting a New Comic!
Darth Maul is one of my favorite canon Star Wars characters, and for all of the obvious reasons. I’m not about to pretend there’s something deeper. He just looks awesome, and that double-bladed lightsaber is a thing of beauty. So cool beans to hear that he’s getting a new comic from Marvel’s Star Wars line.
The guy definitely favors the color red
The comic will be written by Cullen Bunn, with art by Luke Ross. It will explore Maul’s life before The Phantom Menace and before they revealed themselves to the Jedi. This interview at USA Today doesn’t make it sound like any sort of revolutionary comic, but maybe it will be fun.
I still hold Dark Horse’s first Darth Maul solo comic as one of the coolest of all time. That presented us a Maul who was uncompromisingly badass. Hopefully this new comic can come close.
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These Are So Soothing
I stumbled upon these videos this weekend, and I figured they would make a great start to the week! This guy has created a bunch of smooth, stop-motion LEGO builds! Here’s the Death Star!
I love LEGO. I love building the models and putting it all together and letting the magic happen. So this is my kind of video. It’s so smooth and soothing, like magic.
You can see a bunch more of these on the Bart van Dijk Youtube page!
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