Comments on: 1/20 – Curious Cat Asks…

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:05:20 +0000

“Or are they just so sad that they needed anything to get elitist about?”

That’s not elitism, that’s nerdery.

Trust me, I’m a confirmed elitist.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:04:02 +0000

“Ultimate X-Men came after the first X-Men movie and didnâ€™t incorporate every idea in there.”

But they did incoporate some stuff, and the Ultimate X-Men costumes were a direct response to the movie costumes. That’s not too far off from web-shooters.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:02:29 +0000

“There is no way a high school kid could could make web shooters like that. Just no way.”

Bull. Ever heard of a child prodigy?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:05:21 +0000

“I know people who still to this day refuse to see the Spidey films because of the organic webshooters. Seriously!”

That’s just sadBefore the films did they used to talk about how much they love his mechanical web shooters?
That they only read Spiderman because mechanical webshooters were the coolest idea ever?
Or are they just so sad that they needed anything to get elitist about?

By: R.Nav

R.Nav — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:18:02 +0000

Organic.

But in the Ultimate universe, I do like how the webbing isn’t his invention, but actually his father’s. It puts a stop to the “You’re smart enough to invent this revolutionary new glue.. and you can’t pay rent how exactly?” By making it his father’s secret goes a long way towards keeping Parker from cashing it in.

I know people who still to this day refuse to see the Spidey films because of the organic webshooters. Seriously! It’s okay, as my multiple viewings balanced out any potential losses.

By: fanboy d

fanboy d — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:52:16 +0000

organic makes more sense and i think that that is how stan lee would write it were he doing it again but i am fond of the shooters and it also made for a nice touch with the sybiote costume being able to produce its own webbing as well as morph to be clothes. that was awesome.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:44:47 +0000

Organic.

I posted about this in the comments section of ‘What I Brought’ without realising this post was here.
I was shocked when Ultimate Spiderman didn’t go that way.
(although there’s a good chance I had seen the movie first, as I didn’t read Ultimate Spiderman until I heard MJ found out he’s secret, and then I read them on the net (legally, at the MArvel site), and then I got the trades).

By: DanCJ

DanCJ — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:57:45 +0000

Organic!

I’m sure I remember reading an interview Bendis saying he wished he’d thought of doing organic web shooters himself. I can’t find it on Google though.

By: Brian Cronin

Brian Cronin — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:06:13 +0000

The organic webshooters are a big â€˜ol part of that.

You mean MECHANICAL here, right?

By: MarkAndrew

MarkAndrew — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:54:48 +0000

Mechanical.

Ultimate GETS the “Mad Scientists at War” premise of the early Spider-man comics more’n any other Spidey book… Hell, maybe any other Spidey book since Stan.

The organic webshooters are a big ‘ol part of that.

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 14:06:50 +0000

I say mechanical. Ultimate X-Men came after the first X-Men movie and didn’t incorporate every idea in there.

By: John Seavey

John Seavey — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 06:32:21 +0000

Organic. Heck, I forgot that they weren’t organic when I read the question.

And BTW, can we take a moment to give props to Peter David, who appears to have been the first person to use the “organic webshooters” idea?

By: Cat

Cat — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 05:52:33 +0000

You know that frequent image of Spidey hanging upside down with the web rope between his legs? Maybe that tells you where THAT web came from originally.

By: veghead

veghead — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 04:48:35 +0000

Ha. I love the idea of Peter swinging around the city ass first.

By: The Mutt

The Mutt — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 02:47:03 +0000

Movie schmovie. There is no way a high school kid could could make web shooters like that. Just no way. Organic webs make so much more sense, even if they come out of his wrists instwead of his ass.

By: Apodaca

Apodaca — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:55:28 +0000

Organic, no doubt. The Ultimate line was started with the intention of drawing in new readers. They would have done whatever they could to ride the movie’s coattails.

By: James McEwan

James McEwan — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:32:04 +0000

There’s a panel in issue two, just after he throws an abandoned car where you get a close up of his hand in pain, followed by Peter looking at his wrist and saying “…it! What is this?” which I remember thinking when I read it was a sign they were going to do organic shooters.

Don’t remember an explaination of what the the pain in the wrist was though, maybe I read into that incorrectly?

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 22:11:46 +0000

Oh, organic, unquestionably. Actually, this is one of the few changes to the character in recent years which I think is definitely correct. It’s much simpler than saying “He has all the powers of a spider, except this one, which he mimics using his incredible yet strangely unmarketable scientific genius.”

By: Seamus

Seamus — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:56:23 +0000

Even mainstream Spider-Man has organic webshooters now (and spikes, though only Peter David seems to remember that). You can rest assured they would be organic.

By: Ryan H

Ryan H — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:45:38 +0000

Mechanical. Bendis is too much of a fanboy himself to mess with that. He likes screwing with the characters, but not like that.