Code Names Peter Parker Rejected Before Settling On Spider-Man.

1)  The Amazing Peeper  (You’re a teenage boy who just gained the ability to climb walls. What’s the first thing you’re going to do?)

2)  The Scarlet Stalker.

3)  He Can last All Night Man.  (Mary Jane wasn’t that easy to land at first.)

4)  The Amazing Ass-hat.

5)  The Webbed Wingnut.

6)  The Scarlet Sex Machine.

7)  Along Came A Spider Guy.  (Admittedly, he got really baked one night and read a book of nursery rhymes.)

8)  The Two-Minute Wonder.  (Gwen Stacy gave him that one after a botched attempt at coitus.)

9)  Dead Man Swinging  (Remember, he got his powers from a radioactive spider bite.)

10)  Superman.  (Kryptonian lawyers threatened to sue the radioactive ass off him.)

#101: Aquaman KILLED a Guy – And Nobody Really Noticed…

It’s true. Regardless of what they boys on The Big Bang Theory say, the King of Atlantis is a badass.

He killed a guy.

Black Manta (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Specifically, one of Black Manta‘s henchmen, who will now and forever be known as “The Unluckiest Henchman in Comics Because He Got Killed By Aquaman“

I doubt the details are all that important to most of you, but here goes:

• The act in question took place in Aquaman #12 (DC Comics), which is a part of the company’s “New 52″ rebooted universe in which the Powers That Be are trying to make their lamest character – in the eyes of the world, that is – into their coolest.
  
• Aquaman and Black Manta (The guy with the punch bowl on his head and the glowing red eyes) are facing off over… Well, one’s good and the other evil, so its obvious just why they’re fighting, isn’t it?
• An innocent scientist, Dr. Shin, is about to be wiped out by one of Manta’s nameless underlings, at which point Aquaman stabs the underling to death by throwing his trident through his back.
• Take that, world! Who’s a wimp now?

This development has gone largely unnoticed in the fanboy community; a few sites have discussed it, but I haven’t seen any major mainstream coverage. I guess even a badass Aquaman still needs a publicist.

My daughter, Sarah, found the whole situation puzzling, to say the least.

SARAH: But Aquaman is supposed to be a hero! Don’t they have  standards to live up to?

THE HOOK: I think he’s more concerned with being cancelled again to worry too much about remaining true to a set of values most people consider outdated in this day and age.

SARAH: Yeah, Raj on Big Bang always says, “Aquaman sucks”! I guess that hurts after a while…

OTHER BUSINESS…

This installment brings us to the end of yet another slightly-off countdown. As for the future, I think I’ll simply stick to discussing terrible things without actually adhering to a system. I hope you’ll continue to stick around, I’d miss you if you left…

EVEN MORE BUSINESS..

A shout-out to my newest blog buddy, Kristen Lamb and her best-selling tome, We Are Not Alone: The Writer’s Guide to Social Media. Give it a try, folks. You won’t be disappointed…

 

 

The Blog Hop is over but I’m going to leave the links up for anyone who feels like checking out some of the variety the world wide web has to offer…

1.	Romance At Random	2.	Ruthie Knox
3.	Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews	4.	Reading Reality
5.	Storm Goddess Book Reviews	6.	Manga Maniac Cafe
7.	Full Moon Bites	8.	Reading with Holly
9.	Bookie’s Book Reviews	10.	All Things Books
11.	Good Choice Reading	12.	The Write to Make a Living
13.	The Book Diva	14.	Bea’s Book Nook
15.	Shawntelle Madison	16.	Elisabeth Barrett
17.	Socrates’ Book Review Blog	18.	Shelley Munro
19.	Insane Hussein Reviews	20.	Books R Us
21.	Jessica Scott	22.	Book Flame
23.	Manic Readers Guest Blog	24.	My Book Addiction and More
25.	SOS Aloha	26.	Pump Up Your Book
27.	Sharon Cullen	28.	Under the Covers Book Blog
29.	The Book Tart	30.	Reviews by Molly
31.	Laurie’s Thoughts & Reviews	32.	Seductive Musings
33.	Romance Junkies	34.	Love To Read For Fun
35.	Cassandra Carr	36.	BookHounds
37.	Otterwise	38.	From the TBR Pile
39.	Love Saves the World (INT)	40.	Sharon Cullen
41.	So You Think You Can Write	42.	Babbles From Scott Eagan
43.	Bronwyn’s Writing	44.	TE Garden of Book Bloggers
45.	Bookshelf Confessions	46.	Review From Here
47.	Celticlady’s Reviews	48.	Labor Day Hop
49.	Romantic Reads and Such	50.	In Love with Romance
51.	The Bookpushers	52.	Reviewing Romance
53.	Queen of The Night Reviews	54.	Queen of All she Reads
55.	Romantic Crush Junkie Reviews	56.	Saucy & Sinful Reviews
57.	Romancing the Book	58.	Book Faery
59.	Harlies Books	60.	Love, Laughter, Friendship
61.	Ramblings From This Chick	62.	My Secret Romance
63.	Rambling Reads	64.	Delighted Readers
65.	suzy henderson	66.	Romancing Rakes For The Love of Romance
67.	Blackraven’s Erotic Cafe	68.	HEA Romances With a Little Kick
69.	AJ’s Reading Nook	70.	Blackraven’s Reviews
71.	The Readers Roundtable	72.	Dark Divas Reviews
73.	T B R	74.	Romance Book Club
75.	Seaside Book Nook	76.	Cheeky Reads
77.	Mimmi’s Musings	78.	Kindle Fever
79.	Not Now…Mommy’s Reading	80.	herding cats & burning soup
81.	Kindles and Wine	82.	Harlequin Junkie
83.	Caribbean Accent Book Reviews	84.	Sara Jane’s Eclectic Reading Blog
85.	Sharon Hamilton Author	86.	Coffey Brown Books
87.	From the Bootheel Cotton Patch	88.	Teena in Toronto
89.	Me and Reading	90.	The Romance Dish
91.	All Things Books	92.	Amber Kallyn
93.	Book Review Diva	94.	Leigh Ellwood
95.	Me Want Food	96.	Captain marketing
97.	One Word At A Time, Joan Swan, Author	98.	You’ve Been Hooked
99.	The Things You Can Read	100.	The Autumn Review
101.	Day Drmzzz	102.	Confessions From Romaholics
103.	The Book of Terrible

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Studio Greed And The God of Thunder!

Image via Wikipedia

Thor battled his way  to the top of the box office this weekend, earning $66 million, according to studio estimates.

But I guarantee there is a studio boss  rolling his beady little eyes because the Marvel hero’s film debut fell short of the $72 million haul some were predicting.  Captain America and X-Men: First Class are the next Marvel Studios productions designed to separate you from your hard-earned money, and you know Thor was intended to test the waters for the “Super Summer of 2011″.

Ticket sales slid back in the doldrums as revenues dropped 11% from the same weekend last year. Brandon Gray, president of Box Office Mojo, called Thor‘s opening “ho-hum as far as summer kick-offs go these days.”

So let me get this straight: $66 million is considered “ho-hum”? Sure, the film cost $150 million, but they’re well on their way to making that back just in North America, never mind world-wide receipts.

A big-budget action flick about a Nordic deity should kick-ass in Iceland!

Personally, I loved it. But then again, the film was loaded with inside references designed to set a fanboy’s pulse racing.

I guess if you’re a studio douchebag in a suit, the only plot point you care about is the “Gross revenue” figure in the Wikipedia entry.

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