Spider-man, Spider-man...George Takei should be Spider-man.

This week belongs to George Takei.  He's doing all kinds of awesome shit on Howard Stern as the guest announcer for the week and now he's lobbying for the Spider-man role in "Turn Off the Dark".  Its more of a cheap advertising ploy for his new musical (Allegiance, coming in 2012), but it makes sense.  He's got great moves, a great voice, and great musculature.

I haven't seen "Turn Off The Dark", but I have a feeling George would make it better.

Oh my.

Spider-Man : Best. Week. Ever.

So first, we see that Pete gets a spot on the Fantastic Four The Future Foundation and an ultra slick new white and black costume, and now the Spider-man reboot can officially be called "The Amazing Spider-man".  Pretty...pretty.....pretty good.

I'm excited to read the new FF, but the variant cover above confuses me.  Obviously everyone on the cover  is excited that Spidey is on the team, but aren't they a little TOO happy? I mean, Johnny Storm just died guys.  Tone it down a bit. The team consists of 3/4 of the Fantastic Four, the two Richards kids, and then I'm lost.  I suppose that's a gargoyle, 2 mutant birds, a flying alien monkey head, some other stereotypical looking aliens, and a Sleestak lurking under Sue Storm's underarm?

The new teaser picture for Amazing Spider-Man looks awesome.  His costume doesn't look like he made it in his bedroom like in the comics, but for the first time in a long time it looks like he's wearing web shooters. Pretty cool.

More Spider-man Reboot Stuff

Some of the action scenes from the original Spider-man movies looked  like a PS2 game.  Complete garbage.

It looks like they're looking to fix some of those issues in the reboot by shooting more practical effects, which I think is awesome.

Here's Spider-man doing some real Spider-man type stuff.  I'm pretty sure this clip will need some color correction before it makes it's way to theatres.

Spider-man Reboot Picture

First off; reboot.  Insanely stupid word.

The picture above is of Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone all done up in their roles as Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy, and they look how Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy appear in the comics.

I'm a big fan of Spider-man of what Brian Michael Bendis did with Ultimate Spider-man. Instead of an origin of "oh shit, I got bit by a spider....now I'm Spider-man"that lasted for 20 something pages, Bendis spread the story over a 6 issue arc. I think the point of this movie is to spread out the origin, so hopefully they follow Bendis' lead.

Well...not too closely.

There was a rumor going around that Bendis told a fan that the movie was going to be EXACTLY like the first volume of Ultimate Spider-man, but he tweeted that he never said that.

Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy.

AIM Conversation between Brain Dead Blog administrators:

Doug: Yo. Check this out; Emma Stone with blonde hair and makeup for her role as gwen stacy.

Chuck: Oh my god. I want to put her in my trunk and drive to the middle of nowhere.

Doug: Drop her off a bridge.

Chuck: and make her tea.