The line between realities gets a little more blurry
Published June 14th, 2006 in ComicsDid you hear? Peter Parker is Spiderman!
Reason number 1 why New York is the greatest city ever: we are now reporting comic book news as if it were real news. Logically, the next step would be blogging comic book life as if it were real li- oh wait, I’VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR MONTHS! I’m a goddamn visionary!
The only sad part is that, despite what the article says, that issue came out a week ago [Ed - no it didn’t] yet the Post still managed to beat everyone else to the story. The Times and Daily News better get on the ball; I hear Superman is battling a giant spaceship RIGHT NOW.
In fact, there is no section in the paper that couldn’t use a little comic book news from time to time. Observe:
Obituaries: The Ventriloquist, Magpie, and Cold War-era relic KGBeast were murdered in Gotham City.
Law: She-Hulk’s rape suspect, Starfox, escaped from prison.
Business: Lexcorp has made surprising developments in the field of anti-Superman spacecraft and is reported higher-than-expected earnings in Q3.
Life and Leisure: If you’re looking for fun things to do in Star City, take a night-time catapult tour of the city from City Hall, courtesy of Green Arrow.
Sports: Thor hits 10,567 ft home run. Thor has always lived under suspicion for steroid abuse due to his outlandish physique, but now critics are leveling additional charges that he uses a corked hammer.
Life is awesome.
Full Disclosure: Apparently Gawker got to this story earlier today and made a similar joke as me. I think mine was better, at the very least longer and based on actual comic books. Still, they’re a lot better at this blogging thing than me, and I wanted to acknowledge it lest I get a beatdown for plagiarism.
Update: Goddamnit! The issue DID come out yesterday! This whole post hasn’t really been working out for me. I guess that’s what happens when my fact checking department, like my IT and legal departments, consists of me and a six pack of Miller Lite. Clearly I’m understaffed and need to hire more six packs. BA-DUM-BUM! (Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.)
I dont know how I feel about this.
Comic’s are for the nerd’s. They already screwed me with the movies. Now they go ahead, and make it main stream news. Torn I am.
Yeah, Gawker is a way better blog than the underpants. They have all those cool advertisements splashed all over the place, and “juicy” celebrity gossip links.