#friendlyneighborhoodspiderpeople

December 31, 2018 12:44 PM

New York's started to notice that there might be more than just one Spider-Man in town.
posted by Sokka shot first (19 comments total)

This is beautiful and also I need a fanfic(?) in this style for every piece of SFF fiction I've ever consumed? PLEASE?
posted by brook horse at 12:57 PM on December 31, 2018

Spiders man
posted by The Whelk at 12:57 PM on December 31, 2018 [12 favorites]

Great fic. Great film too. If you're interested, Sony put the script for the film up - makes for interesting reading, I think.
posted by YAMWAK at 1:00 PM on December 31, 2018 [2 favorites]

I just saw the movie last night and loved it. This fic is delightful!
posted by mogget at 1:21 PM on December 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

Spiders man

I know you're following the "surgeons general" and "burritos supreme" rule, but this seems wrong for several reasons.

Unless you specifically meant the one from Earth-11580, that is literally a colony of spiders pretending (poorly) to be a human named Peter Parker.

No, that was not a joke. Not my joke, anyway.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 1:35 PM on December 31, 2018 [2 favorites]

Speaking of the Spider-Verse here's a gallery and brief explanation of all the morphing of the Columbia logo in the opening. (And the 'cowgirl' variation was directly based on what the studio did for "Cat Ballou")
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:55 PM on December 31, 2018 [7 favorites]

#i like the canadian one he did on TV last week #it was TERRIBLE
posted by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug at 2:15 PM on December 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

Oh, that was delightful. Thanks for posting it!
posted by Lexica at 2:53 PM on December 31, 2018

Spiders Man is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
posted by The otter lady at 4:46 PM on December 31, 2018 [8 favorites]

I totally want to read more about the adventure of Spiders Man. They're just trying to achieve the life of Peter Parker- photojournalism work, court MJ, matriculate through NYU's biology/ genetics program, rescue people- while passing for human rather than a colony of spiders inside of a human costume. Most of the comic's weight comes from the deep political arachnid intrigues that guide Spiders Man's decision making, as well as the 'fish out of water' comedy about Arachnid/Human cultural misunderstandings.
posted by LeRoienJaune at 5:05 PM on December 31, 2018 [8 favorites]

A colony of spiders is not the hero we need, but the hero we deserve.
posted by The otter lady at 8:12 PM on December 31, 2018 [3 favorites]

Yeah seconding Spiders Man - I'd actually be interested in reading/watching that. The original, not so much, kinda grew outta that at an early age. but SPIDERS MAN! now that sounds (heh) original for a change.
posted by some loser at 8:21 PM on December 31, 2018

Now I want a Spiders-Boy character made up of a colony of Lucases.
posted by Fiberoptic Zebroid and The Hypnagogic Jerks at 8:24 PM on December 31, 2018 [2 favorites]

Please tell me Spiders Man sort of swarms over the bad guys and leaves them all wrapped up in webbing, yay! right? only this time if you cut the webbing off them you find only the SHRIVELED HUSK of the person! with eggs laid in it maybe!
posted by The otter lady at 8:48 PM on December 31, 2018 [3 favorites]

you could go the whole season with him "leaving them safely wrapped up for the cops to deal with" and you think "what a nice colony of spiders, not killing anyone" and then fiiiinallly someone gets around to trying to cut one of them loose and aaaaaaaa

crap I just spoilered it for all of you. I'm so sorry.
posted by The otter lady at 8:50 PM on December 31, 2018 [8 favorites]

Major advantage of Spiders-Man in the MCU: he'd still be there, only half size.
posted by Halloween Jack at 9:47 PM on December 31, 2018 [10 favorites]

I love that discussion of TFA very quickly and firmly veered into discussion of Spiders-Man, who I now fervently hope has a major role in Into the Spider-Verse 2.
posted by ejs at 10:09 PM on December 31, 2018 [1 favorite]

One of the reasons I loved this movie is because I feel like 3D feature animation of the decade has been a project of camping out on the easy side of the uncanny valley, with the arguable exception of Incredibles, and Ralph having a Cyriak moment. (It's the internet, so of course Ralph will have a Cyriak moment.) It all kind of blurs together into mush of similar faces and character models. Even though the writing of Loving Vincent was a plod through a weak conspiracy theory, I have to give it credit for taking the art direction in a different direction.

Quite honestly, if Spider-Verse had followed the path of How to Train Your Frozen Hotel Transylvania Pets, I think I probably would have checked out for half the film or just waited for the Netflix release.
posted by GenderNullPointerException at 10:12 PM on December 31, 2018 [4 favorites]

The form of this fanfic reminds me of the color text in this year's Spiderman game on PS4. There's a full Twitter-like feed you open regularly to see random comments like "Spiderman made me spill my coffee" or "I can't believe he saved that girl's life he's amazing!". They update as the game progresses. Also other side events have you posting photos into that feed, and there's even a social media nemesis side mission.

One of the lines is "does Spiderman ever taste his own web goo?" and I nearly dropped the controller laughing so loud.
posted by Nelson at 12:01 AM on January 1, 2019 [4 favorites]