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Tweak says, "What."

bluefall (bluefall) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-26 11:01:00

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char: aegis/trey rollins, char: amadeus cho, char: ben parker, creator: fred van lente, creator: greg pak, creator: rodney buchemi, publisher: marvel comics, title: incredible hercules

From Herc #130
colonel_green suggested I post this, and when the man's right, he's right. The affairs of Zeus and Herc were the main storyline this month, but Pak and Van Lente have also split Cho off for a potentially nifty little B-plot, so a few pages on that here.

I only sometimes like Cho. This is one of those times. I think Trey helps a lot - I never knew the guy before but just from his place in this arc I already adore him.

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	shanejayell 2009-06-26 10:19 am UTC (link)
	Awww. ^__^ (Reply to this)

	crinosg 2009-06-26 10:32 am UTC (link)
	I love how they made Ben Parker the Saint Peter of this place. I mean seriously, Isn't he just the first person you'd like to see when you get up to Heaven? Heh. Ben Parker/Endless Death; Most awesome OTP ever? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sir_razorback 2009-06-26 12:49 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. It was kind of neat to see Pete interacting with a Ben that popped in from an alternate earth for a couple books or so, but 616-Ben really needs to stay dead. It's better this way. (Reply to this) (Parent)

colonel_green
2009-06-26 10:35 am UTC (link)

I added "And tell my nephew that if he wants to get here he should stop being a dumbass" to Uncle Ben's comments; when then led to me speculating on what would have happened if Kurtwood Smith had been cast as Uncle Ben...

Really, though, it's a lovely little continuity touchstone; Uncle Ben has a sort of mythic quality to him. You could easily imagine the now-deceased Jonathan Kent in a similar scene over at DC.

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	starwolf_oakley 2009-06-26 02:05 pm UTC (link)
	If Spider-Man ever got to talk to Ben's spirit (like Batman got to talk to the Waynes in "Death and the Maidens"), Ben would probably say something like how saving lives is good but that Peter didn't have to be unhappy all the time. "Hey, I never said, 'With great responsibility there must also come perpetual emo-ness.'" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	merrickm 2009-06-26 03:20 pm UTC (link)
	In Spider-Man's House of M tie-in, Waid wrote a scene along those lines. From memory it was something like. "'With great power comes great responsibility.' I must have said that to you a thousand times. And do you know why I feel ashamed?" "Because I didn't live up to it?" "No, because I never said it to anyone else." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	majingojira 2009-06-26 10:56 am UTC (link)
	Aw, Amadeus needs a hug! (Reply to this)

	comicoz 2009-06-26 01:08 pm UTC (link)
	Wait...an actual thought out story that doesn't involve punching someone until they cry? What is this, Jaime!Blue Beetle? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	akodo_rokku 2009-06-26 04:11 pm UTC (link)
	Naw, it's the Incredible Hercules, the best comic Marvel's putting out that isn't part of War of Kings. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	comicoz 2009-06-26 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	And Incredible is, amazingly, the correct adjective for the series! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	proteus_lives 2009-06-26 02:06 pm UTC (link)
	This was a dose of the awwww. (Reply to this)

	rzerox21xx 2009-06-26 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Snice Uncle Ben is in this afterlife, I wonder if he knows about Peter's deal with Mephisto and what happened with his marriage and is disappointed in him for making a deal with such a being especially knowing from the afterlife that May was ready to join him. (Reply to this)

	kali921 2009-06-26 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	"Unexpected" guest star? Bzzt! People have been predicting ever since this arc began that at least one Herc cast member would bump into Ben. (Reply to this)

	salamangkiero 2009-06-29 06:05 am UTC (link)
	Ahg. this just hit me. I do have some friends who have passed on that i wish i could have had closure with. I can only imagine how it could have been in this case. (Reply to this)