Image: Elliott Kalan, Marco Failla/Marvel Comics They go on a series of wild adventures, encountering various Spider-Man and X-Men villains. Which, if you think about it, that’s a pretty good choice of subject for Spider-Man. While he’s there, he takes on a breakfast club of mutant weirdos, from Glob Herman to Shark-Girl to Eye Boy, with the goal of teaching them about the ethics of super powers. (See the top image on this post, in which Spider-Man’s concession to professional attire is to wear a size-too-large suit jacket over his costume.) Written by writer and comedian Elliott Kalan and drawn by artist Marco Failla ( Marvel Rising, New Mutants, All-New Wolverine), Spider-Man and the X-Men is a six-issue miniseries about what happens when Spider-Man becomes a professor at the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning. Think of it as part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. Let’s talk about Spider-Man and the X-Men.Įach Monday, while the comics industry takes a bit of a break, we’re looking back at some of the stand out moments in comic history - or at least in weird comics history. And, canonically, he named himself after a character from The Lord of the Rings. He’s been a dinosaur man since the 1960s. And the more you pull at the layers, the more it falls away, like an onion of bad assumptions. He’s already turned himself into a dinosaur! But here’s the thing. This Spider-man villain wants to turn people into dinosaurs. It’s viral because it paints such a coherent picture in so few words and only a single image. Sure, the panel is funny, but it’s not viral because it’s funny. “But I don’t want to cure cancer,” the pterodactyl man says with infuriating insouciance. A comic book panel in which Spider-Man tells a pterodactyl man that if he has the technology to rewrite DNA, he could cure cancer. If you’ve been on the internet at all in the last five years, you’ve probably seen it.
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