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cyberghostface (cyberghostface) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-26 19:11:00

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char: dr. octopus/otto octavius, creator: dan slott, creator: john romita jr., title: amazing spider-man

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A dying villain wanting to go out in a final blaze of glory? What a great idea! I'm surprised no one else has come up with it yet. (Also, there's no way Marvel's going to kill him off if they have any brains.)

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thehefner
2009-06-26 06:37 pm UTC (link)

Man, Otto's really trying to give Hal Jordan some competition!

Seriously, though, Otto's one of my favorite characters, but he's been misused so horribly for so long. I'd really have hoped the brilliant Alfred Molina take would have brought him back to his awesome 90's white-business-suited badass glory, but no. Instead, we got Matrix!Otto, followed by a return to whiny annoying green-spandex Otto. I'm afraid to see what the reveal of this current state of Otto will be.

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ex_stig213
2009-06-26 06:38 pm UTC (link)

Everything that comes into contact with ASM turns to roasted dry Llama droppings these days, and, as with the ancient Incas, it is seen as a great delicacy.

Note to Quesada: remember when you did Daredevil with Kevin Smith? Having Mysterio dying of cancer and trying to get revenge worked because he was a joke that no-one cared about. This does NOT work because it is OTTO FREAKING OCTAVIUS, who is decidely better than Mysterio. Whatever happened to Carolyn Trainer and the Master Programmer?

For that matter, what kind of Doctor diagnoses a known supervillains in broad daylight without calling the cops? Hope did she do that X-Ray if he's in a robot suit?

ROASTED DRY LLAMA DROPPINGS, SAY I!

Even Romita jr. can't rescue this trainwreck.

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	fungo_squiggly 2009-06-26 06:58 pm UTC (link)
	In reality, that doctor is only trying to fool Otto into thinking he's dying in order to control his behavior. This will directly result in Otto attaching robot-arms to a lot of Z-list Marvel villains, with the "octopusized" villains going on a rampage while Otto spends his own time trying to impregnate, um, Aunt May I guess. (Reply to this)

	jlroberson 2009-06-26 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	Good, Freaking. Idea. Such a simple thing. I have no idea why nobody ever thought of it before: accumulated head trauma. Name me a single supervillain who you COULDN'T apply this to, really. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	foxhack 2009-06-26 10:01 pm UTC (link)
	Hammerhead? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dcanacek 2009-06-26 11:13 pm UTC (link)
	Arnim Zola (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thehefner 2009-06-26 11:25 pm UTC (link)
	Hell, Ego the Living Planet probably has the WORST case of it than anybody else! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	zegim 2009-06-26 07:07 pm UTC (link)
	Now Homer Simpson and Otto have something to bond over. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sir_razorback 2009-06-27 03:06 am UTC (link)
	Don't forget Head-Injury Hal (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-26 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. Super-original. It's also not like they've ever done this with the Vulture or anything. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	zechs27 2009-06-26 11:02 pm UTC (link)
	Or Mysterio, Carnage, Eddie Brock, Silvermane, and Sandman. Geez you think the Spidey writers would stop playing the terminal card but nope they keep a pushing it. Next up.. Electro's Last Pulse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rzerox21xx 2009-06-27 03:17 am UTC (link)
	This was also done wtih Vulture by J.M. DeMatteis well done spectacular run in the ninties. When he was dying with cancer and he went to Aunt May to ask for forgiveness for Nathan's death. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sandoz_iscariot 2009-06-26 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	Who was it that called Otto crashing May's wedding and being the cause of JJJ Sr's death? Because that's exactly what's going to happen. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	sianmink 2009-06-27 01:53 am UTC (link)
	if the BRILLIANT DOCTOR OTTO OCTAVIOUS can not have the delightful May Parker, then NOONE CAN! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sir_razorback 2009-06-27 03:06 am UTC (link)
	I think I did, but I probably wasn't alone. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blake_reitz 2009-06-26 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	One, two, three, four,...five, six? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-06-27 05:05 pm UTC (link)
	::checks:: Hunh. Maybe he's branching out into squids! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-06-27 07:00 am UTC (link)
	Fuck Osborn. Doc Ock has always been and will always be Spidey's greatest nemesis. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-06-27 05:06 pm UTC (link)
	Piffle! It's the original Hobgoblin! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	thehefner 2009-06-27 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	Much as I love Roddy, I gotta back you up on this. Otto all the way. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ar_feiniel_ 2009-06-27 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Okay I have yet to get past the first panel, but, "Can you remember the first time, Otto?" heh (Reply to this)

	xdoop 2009-06-27 04:45 pm UTC (link)
	Spidey has radiation in his system, and he gets hit in the head a lot. Is he a goner as well? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-06-27 04:56 pm UTC (link)
	Spider-Man's not a normal human, though. Ock is. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	ashtoreth 2009-06-27 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	They already did that storyline in The Other. Technically, this is Peter's all new regenerated body. ...Unless that's another thing they changed in an Untold Story. Seriously, if that made sense, Matt Murdock oughta be in a wheelchair by now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cyberghostface 2009-06-27 07:28 pm UTC (link)
	I don't know if The Other is in continuity anymore. He no longer has any of the abilities he gained in the Other (such as the spikes coming out of his hands), and although this wasn't part of that storyline, he's lost his organic webbing. (Reply to this) (Parent)

psychop_rex
2009-06-28 01:14 am UTC (link)

As far as I'm concerned, almost everything that's happened to Spidey post-OMD is basically the equivalent of a 'What If' or an Elseworlds - it's not happening in the 'real' world, it's happening in the fakey-fakey-I-am-Mephisto-and-shall-spare-your-aunt's-life-at-the-cost-of-your-SOUL/MARRIAGE/WHATEVER-bwahahahaha world. He's basically plonked down his version of what would have happened minus this this and this as an overlay over what's actually happened. In a year or so at the most, I'm presuming that we'll be back to the way things were, and Quesada will say 'man, that was GREAT', sigh nostalgically, and try and figure out some OTHER way to get rid of MJ.
I have to say, though, I kinda liked the close-up X-ray punches showing how Ock got brain damage. Nice touch.

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