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Tuesday, January 15, 2019

SPIDEY SWEETNESS

Check out this screen-grab that a sharp-eyed Spidey fan over on Twitter just sent to me.  It's from the trailer for the new Spider-Man movie, Far From Home. Peter’s on a class trip to Europe, sailing the waterways of Venice.
Look at the name of the hotel.


What a sweet acknowledgement!

16 comments:

  1. Al Mligrom was the name of a hotel in Ant Man, so the question is why are so many Spider-Man writers going into the hotel business?

    Just stay away from the Russian breakfast, I heard the last guy who got it wound up with a giant headache, right fare babbling about his mother having similar problems, and was dead to the world for over 20 years.

    The Moonshadow side-up eggs, you can't keep straight just where your hairiest pal comes from.

    And never go with your best friend, you always wind up at each other's throats, especially if you had a problem with their father?

    Though, I hear when they hold wakes fro aunts, it brings people to tears. Even old relatives, some who claim to have been missing for five years but seem so like you, show up to participate.

    But be warned, the rats can be man-sized, and very traumatized.



    Jack

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    1. Is this Italy? Does that mean that the Dematteis has a partner with the cross town restaurant, "The Defalco"?

      Or a manager name Michelinie? Is that an Italian name? I guess I don't know for sure.

      If not, no one said you can't immigrate TO Italy. Of course, with the rise of Neo-Facism there, who knows how long that will be the case.

      You might want to move your hotel Dematteis.

      Jack

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    2. DeFalco has a pizzeria up the block!

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    3. Fun fact: Hotel DeMatteis comes up on basically any proximity search. Whether you enter "hotels close to" London, Egypt, or Wakanda, it will say, "Hotel DeMatteis is .01 miles from," because, you know, boom tubes and the astral plane.

      It's a feature, not a bug--until you get sucked into a hellish dimension, that is!

      --David

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    4. You're mistaken, David. The hotel in Wakanda won't be open till 2020. :)

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    5. LOL. I must have been factoring in the upgraded package option that includes time travel. :)

      "Experience the hotels of tomorrow...today!"

      --David

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  3. Isn't the real question, now that you have seen "Into the Spider-Verse," won't you be missing middle-aged Peter B. Parker, when you see S to the M: far from home?


    Jack

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  4. That's awesome!

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  5. BTW, I read your Mysterio three-parter from WEBSPINNERS for the first time today.

    That is arguably one of your best Spidey stories, and that's saying something.

    --David

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  6. Thanks so much, David. Glad you enjoyed the story!

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    1. I actually have a question about that story.

      It is a villain based character study, and those don;t usually end well for the villain when you writer them on Spidey books.

      Is the only reason he lived to the end, because Kevin Smith called dibs in killing him?

      I checked, and it did come out around the same time as the arc where he dies.

      Or, did one of your few super-villain pardons turned into a cheap bit of faux-irony that could be found ion the cheeziest of back-lot dramas(oddly fitting for Mysty), as he only had months left to live?

      Jack

      P.S. The story where Mysterio makes Spider-man think he went insane, is one of my favorite Stan Lee Spider-MAn tales. And why I think his potential as a character is so wasted. There is so much he could do... blackmail politicians with incriminating video of things they never did!


      P.P.S. Anyone who hasn't read Peter David's Spider-man story with the three Mysterios from 2006-or 2007, I would recommend.

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    2. Kevin Smith's story had nothing to do with it, Jack. I wasn't even aware of it till after it came out. The story ended that way because...well, that's the way the characters wanted it to end! I had no idea Mysterio was slated for death.

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