Top 5 Reasons the New Spiderman Movie Is Going to Suck

5) They're retelling the origin. This is something of a pet peeve of mine with Superhero films. Retelling the origin over and over. Especially when you can sum it up like this: "He got bit by a radioactive/genetically altered spider".

4) It takes place in High School. They're probably trying to reach a younger audience, but they whole setup feels designed to alienate fans of the comic.

3) Spider-man is white. The new Spider-Man (in the Ultimate titles anyways) is Miles Morales, half black, half Hispanic. I don't think this will doom the movie so much as it further alienates current readers and I'd like to see Hollywood do a superhero movie with some diverse heroes. They couldn't get Falcon into Avengers instead of Hawkeye? Will War Machine make an appearance? I digress...

2)Gwen Stacy, mainly for canonical reasons, Gwen didn't meet Peter til he started college and the movie takes place during high school. A little nit-picky on my part, but are they really going to go forward with Peter being responsible (somewhat) for the death of her father and ultimately Gwen?

1) The Lizard looks like crap. I'm not a big fan of CGI, but the guy looks ready to stomp Tokyo not skulk around New York sewers. I love Pez, but will be skipping the Lizard dispenser as it is really creepy looking. The Lizard should've been almost completely CGI, he should be able to keep up with Spidey in wall-crawling and the like, he looks most like a guy in a costume and least like a threat. Hopefully they will add some power to him in post with animation, but that's doubtful, as we've seen the Pez and at least one released pic.

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A plea to DC and Marvel

I have a question for DC Comics and Marvel Comics as well. Why won't you let me give you my money? I am 2-3 hours from the nearest store that sells comics now. Why can't I get comics at Wal-mart? I live in NW Alabama and can find Ice fishing magazines locally, but not an issue of Batman! If you go to the DC web site the link for subscriptions leads to this: https://ssl.drgnetwork.com/ecom/dcc/app/live/dcc_redirect. Which is just a place holder for a website "under construction". I know DC has digital comics now, but there is no obvious link on the webpage (have to go to comixology for their digital wares, Marvel failed wonderfully there). I know your upcoming reboot is to get new readers, but if a new reader wanted to get your comics and didn't know where to go, your website and promotions in general fall short.

I may be a rare and isolated case. But I grew up reading comics, comics fueled a love for reading my entire life. Most of my life I could find comics literally anywhere and everywhere. Please answer my questions if you can. Where have the comics gone?

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