One of my favorite Zodiac facts is the origin of Cancer. Cancer was a crab who protected one of the creatures that Hercules slew during his trials. The crab pinched Hercules in a futile yet presumably adorable manner and Hercules stepped on him. Hera (I think) took pity on the crab and granted him eternal life in the stars.
Gerald Weir There’s another origin which makes out Cancer as a giant crab that (once again) nips at the heels of Hercules only to be kicked into outer space... The constellation shows that he’s still there.
@@hyperion3145 , reminds me of the lobstocities from the Dark Tower saga by Stephen King. 29 jun, btw.. Middle of the calendar, best and worst of everything. Some people have told me I am actually a Sirius, "the dog star"and that that is lost sign of the zodiac... Idk.
Important Spidey Facts I learned from this video: Spidey steals cars when he's going on a big date, and skips out on the bill. Aunt May has a side job as the Crypt Keeper.
Movie Aunt Mays: *Aunt* Comic Aunt May: "You're more like our great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great aunt!"
Peter: "Jane, you've barely touched your pizza! What's wrong?" Jane: "Spider-Man gave me a gooey mouthful yesterday, and it really bothered me." Peter spits out his pizza.
I think it would be cool if he transformed more often, and also maybe this form would have some powers. And maybe have some actual design, maybe something with star on them, to make them more conected to signs
Bold of them to have a male villain who's civilian disguise is a woman in the 70's , I feel like that's the kind of thing they'd have gotten letters about.
“Spider-Man wouldn’t date girls.” I believe what this is means is that Ben is at that age where he considers girls “icky” and he dislikes them. Being a fan of Spider-Man, Ben projects his disdain for girls onto Spider-Man. Ben is likely thinking that Spider-Man is too cool and too awesome to wanna date some yucky old girl.
@@FearMonarch Because Peter Parker is literally always associated with Spider-Man. He’s made an entire career off of taking pictures of himself, so it wouldn’t be hard to imagine someone would talk about Spider-Man to someone who made an entire living off of Spider-Man. Lmao.
You know...I think Zodiac could actually be a pretty cool concept for a character with a bit of work. A character with twelve distinct forms, each with its own unique strengths and weaknesses, who is _forced_ to change form regularly...you could get some interesting stories out of that.
Esch form could have different stages too so that you could have 24+ transformations if you really want to keep it fresh. Could be like if Ben 10 was forced to transform to stay alive.
@Captain Slimsam I would love to hear Daniel Christopher barnes playing symbiote Spider-man chasing after Skip Wescott . " Get back here Wescott! WESCOTT! you can't escape me! I'll chase you down to the ends of the Earth!"
It really isn’t that far off from what she looked like in the 70s and 80s comics I read as a kid. She was usually a frail plot device and rarely a character.
It's funny, growing up I never paid any attention to Aunt May's age, but now as an adult...Peter was like 16, so his parents were probably in their late thirties or 40s, so why is Aunt May like 95?
@@mayssm That implies that Peter's grandparents somehow had two children like fifty years apart from eachother, now I can't unsee it... She could be any of the grandparent's sister though, which still makes her count as an aunt to Peter, funny enough, Homecoming Aunt May is the one that makes the most sense
@@mayssm I always assumed that Ben and May were Peter's great-uncle and great-aunt but he just calls then aunt and uncle. I have a couple of relatives like that.
Just eyeballing it, this looks to have been the artwork of Ron Wilson, who was drawing Marvel Two-In-One at the time. Can’t verify that, there’s just certain panels that look an awful lot like his work, especially how he draws the heads in profile- I had another one of those big little books about the Fantastic Four which I originally thought was drawn by Jack Kirby, but turned out to be Herb Trimpe doing his best Jack Kirby impersonation.
I think this was Al Milgrom that did the artwork for this book. It has the same look as Morlock 2001 from Atlas Comics, which he did the pencils for. It has his signature look for women's lips where they're very much connected and have a thick outline, plus the way shocked eyes look.
hmmm can't see how, seems gimmicky at best. It's a guy that has to transform in silly animals everyday. The only real menace is the Aquarius one and even that seems a bit..odd.
Oh, this is where that goat transformation comes from! I’ve had the “Jane concentrates, a weird change, an enormous mountain goat” sequence of images saved for years, but never knew what it was from. Also, great intro.
Aunt May looks an awful lot like a very skinny Thanos at 19:20 I'm not sure what that explains, but I'm sure it explains something. Edit: Guess Thanos Aunt May is the reason Mr. Zodiac got dusted. That explains everything.
Him and miles debate about the best pizza in NY it gets to the point where they ask shocker as a tie breaker. I believe it was amazing Spider-Man free comic book day 2019? Maybe 2018?
As an Argentine fan, I thought nothing could beat Chris talking about the Eternauta and saying "Juan Domingo Perón" out loud ... But I just saw him drink Fernet from the bottle. That was just great! Oh, you can mix it with Coke (70% Coke, 30% Fernet) and ice, believe me when I say it's an acquired taste.
I like the idea of green goblin kidnapping aunt may, and the first thought spider man has is "aw man, I'll have to rescue her...as soon as I figure out which one is which...hmmmm"
Actually... in my youth the pizza places that were were plain and inconspicuous were slinging some of the best slices I ever ate. This was in the mid 80s - early 90s in NY and Toronto. These places always had no colour or two colours at most. Either the place was all white or white with a line of red here and there. lol No seats either. Well maybe a single table with 4 chairs but there would usually be a long counter people would stand and eat at. The guys producing the pizzas were always skinny olive skinned 30 somethings wearing thin white t-shirt and waste aprons with a pack of smokes tucked on their body somewhere. The guy taking the orders and manning the cash machine would be chain smoking like there's no tomorrow. LOL! This was the scene at all these types of places. I wish I could remember the names of any of those places. lol Like I said, they looked almost all the same and very plain in "decor". However, the pizzas.... Oh man! The pizzas. I'd pay a fortune to go back in time just to taste those slices again. Here in Toronto, the 2 places still open have changed drastically. Really they're NOT the places from my childhood, they are just new pizza shops where the old ones used to be. SIGH! Goddamn time. Haven't gone to NY in almost 20 years. I'm sure they still got some good old school pizzas.
It was from '76 so they couldn't outright say that spidey fucked the shit out of her. But they sure did allude to it. I would have preferred they just showed peter Parker drilling her snatch as it would have strengthened the bond between them and made the revelation that she was the villain all along have more impact
Amazing video as always! I had to pause it many times cause I couldn't stop laughing so hard. I NEED that little book. Or at least a slice of those pizzas. About the Fernet Branca, that's a signature drink here in Argentina and you SHOULDN'T drink it pure! You mix it with a lot of Coke (about four fifths of Coke and one of Fernet) and ice. Try it like that and you're in for a treat!
At 18:00 the caption reads "Parking His Crate". No wonder you thought it was an odd looking car; it's actually a crate. What you are seeing in the picture is Peter using his imagination, as he sits in a crate, in his Aunt's driveway, pretending it's a car.
Hey man! Just in case you find this interesting: Mezcal and tequila are obtained from the same plant (agave) but have a few differences. Tequila is made using only blue agave, mezcal can be obtained from any agave. The name "tequila" is also a denomination of origin: Tequila is a region in Mexico, in the state of Jalisco. Only liquor extracted from blue agave in the region of Tequila may be called tequila. Mezcal, like whiskey (I guess) can be blended and like gin can be infused. There's looooooads of varieties, and can taste very differently from one batch to another. Love your show!
Chris how could you miss the amazing, Shyamalanesque twist of this whole book? Prepare to have your mind blown: Mr Zodiac turns into all 12 zodiac signs! That's right, Jane Virgo was one of the 12 zodiac signs all along!!!
Remember the Zodiac villains the S.H.I.E.L.D and Nick Fury used to fight against, at one point? Why weren't they used for this story instead is beyond me ._.
I think I've read (at least part of) this Big Little Book! I never owned any, but I remember some that my cousins owned that I would read when we visited... Spider man, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost,,, BLBs were a great introduction for small kids to longer form books and novels. good times, and a great review as always!
Chris went from "this story is crazy" to "this is one of the worst Spider-Man stories" in the drop of a hat That's an escalation that both gives me amusement and dread
I read this book when I was little. If I remember correctly part of Astro's origin mentioned the volcano cooking the outer layer of his brain or something
This story had much more potential - imagine if Peter starts dating Jane Virgo, becomes her boyfriend, falls in love and in the end it's revealed that she's actually a guy!
Imagine the transphobic uproar if Peter was anything less than thrilled at being lied to by a trans woman. There'd be angry villagers with torches and pitchforks at the gates of marvel's offices baying for blood at the perpetuation of transphobic narratives.
The Car Spider-Man is driving at around 18:00 may be an Citroën 2CV also known as the "Ugly Duckling", it was (back in the day) a really affordable car for students from that time period (especially in The Netherlands), I guess the artist just couldn't draw it right but there's some semblence. The line: "Spider-Man Wouldn't Date Girls!" at 19:50 is probably because back then there was a very stereotypical thing about kids being like: "Eeww, girls!" or: "Eeww, boys!". The writer probably made the kid project himself onto Spider-Man which may explain the weird sentence.
Hey, Chris! I had this book when I was a kid. Like most children's entertainment, it didn't matter if it made no sense as long as it gave you something to read while your parents were busy. Anyway, I remember the scorpion on the cover and maybe that's why I wrote a LSH chapter called The Sky Rider and the Scorpion a few years back. I'm really enjoying these dedicated forays into weird super-hero stuff and I'd like to see you do another drinking game. Those reactions are priceless.
It’s like the writer wanted to include all the signs in the story but procrastinated by writing the same series of events a couple times then shoved the rest of the signs in the last dozen pages.
Betty Brandt...the secretary at the Bugle...dated Peter for a while. Probably why she was rude to Virgo in the beginning. Seems like we have a case of a writer who was given a blurb about Spider-Man and not much else to work with, but they tried to touch on the tropes that were listed. Fun video. If any other characters make the news like ole' web head did this week I wouldn't mind seeing another story like this.
New Warriors annual 3 on the spinner rack? That was my favorite series as a teenager and still holds a special place in my heart. Though I know it's there because of the lame polybag and trading card introducing a new villain, lol.
That pizza eating panel is so funny to me. The pizza slices are ridiculously huge, their sitting positions are weird and awkward, the text on the window, the chef is spinning the dough from inside the kitchen but the dough is outside? what is he doing. And then the caption, "Eating Pizza". Like yeah, we noticed.
Even if astrology isnt legit, your sign is just 1 of many, you have 1 for each "planet" and 1 per section of the sky (known as a house), with it being divided into 12. More than that, there are angles between planets that alter their properties, and a planet's position in a house can too. Your sun sign (what people consider your main sign) is probably only the third most important, determining your ego's desires and growth.
I saw this book at a second hand store when I was a kid: I wanted to get it, but we couldn't afford it. 😞 Also, Marvel gave Astro an entry in their Handbook of the Marvel Universe and this all supposedly took place on Earth-616 (the reality where the mainstream Marvel Universe takes place)
Mr. Zodiac was Spiderman's greatest villain because he almost killed a real life person via alcohol poisoning that is why Spiderman had to attempt to tram them with a train
What a nostalgic trip this video was for me. I owned this book, and quite a few other books of this same type, when I was a kid. I read this one a lot. It's too bad the only (I think) zodiac transformation that didn't happen in the book was Cancer, my sign, so I didn't get to see the drink accompaniment for that one.
The frightening thing is that, according to the Marvel Fandom wiki, this *is* part of the 616 continuity. *boggle*
Well the wiki might be wrong
@@jadenbryant9283 True. But it’s a starting data point pending further research. :-)
@@NPC-jt3gp this is the funniest shit I've read all day
@@NPC-jt3gp dude why the needless trans dig?
One of my favorite Zodiac facts is the origin of Cancer.
Cancer was a crab who protected one of the creatures that Hercules slew during his trials. The crab pinched Hercules in a futile yet presumably adorable manner and Hercules stepped on him. Hera (I think) took pity on the crab and granted him eternal life in the stars.
Gerald Weir
There’s another origin which makes out Cancer as a giant crab that (once again) nips at the heels of Hercules only to be kicked into outer space... The constellation shows that he’s still there.
Makes sense hera would be the one to take pity
@@hyperion3145 original version is sad. THIS version is hilarious.
Wait! I somehow might have missed the Crab in the video. What was the drink?
@@hyperion3145 , reminds me of the lobstocities from the Dark Tower saga by Stephen King.
29 jun, btw..
Middle of the calendar, best and worst of everything.
Some people have told me I am actually a Sirius, "the dog star"and that that is lost sign of the zodiac...
Idk.
Important Spidey Facts I learned from this video: Spidey steals cars when he's going on a big date, and skips out on the bill. Aunt May has a side job as the Crypt Keeper.
You forgot that Spider-Man would never date girls
Haha, yea Aunt May died in 1894 but even death can't stop May.
Movie Aunt Mays: *Aunt*
Comic Aunt May: "You're more like our great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great aunt!"
Crypt Keeper…DUDE 😂 !!!!
Peter: "Jane, you've barely touched your pizza! What's wrong?" Jane: "Spider-Man gave me a gooey mouthful yesterday, and it really bothered me." Peter spits out his pizza.
I bet Mary Jane is jealous Peter has never gave HER a gooey mouthful
Strping for action
“Spider Man! Give me another gooey mouthful please!”
babe whats wrong youve barely touched your fifth giant slice of pizza in three days straight??
In all honesty, having a power to transform into Zodiac creatures can be pretty cool... if you know what you're doing. This story doesn't.
If they have accompanying powers.
I think it would be cool if he transformed more often, and also maybe this form would have some powers. And maybe have some actual design, maybe something with star on them, to make them more conected to signs
They completely stopped giving a shit right around "Giant flying Scales"
Very disappointed with the Peter Parker "stripping for action" panel.
Same.
Bold of them to have a male villain who's civilian disguise is a woman in the 70's , I feel like that's the kind of thing they'd have gotten letters about.
@@DefinitelynotBatman i think hes there for kids in the audience to project onto
Not gonna lie the Jane identity is kinda hot.
You’re implying anyone read this to send a letter
Also, he apparently becomes a Virgin, aka Virgo. I wonder if they would die if Peter accepted their advances? Or would they just lose that form?
@@deviousj5868 Agreed.
“Spider-Man wouldn’t date girls.” I believe what this is means is that Ben is at that age where he considers girls “icky” and he dislikes them. Being a fan of Spider-Man, Ben projects his disdain for girls onto Spider-Man. Ben is likely thinking that Spider-Man is too cool and too awesome to wanna date some yucky old girl.
Why is he telling Peter Parker that tho, is he running around telling the neighborhood kids about his secret identity 😂
@@FearMonarch Because Peter Parker is literally always associated with Spider-Man. He’s made an entire career off of taking pictures of himself, so it wouldn’t be hard to imagine someone would talk about Spider-Man to someone who made an entire living off of Spider-Man. Lmao.
i like to think ben thinks spiderman is a fruit
Or maybe he saw him banging Deadpool
This intro was perfecto
👀
daniel Shakespeare Guendouzi was great
I dunno, I thought it was prett
When aren't they
Early John Romita Jr. Alex Saviuk or Sal Buscema
ComicTropes got mo balls dhan dhe Harlem Globetrotters son #GotchaPun
You know...I think Zodiac could actually be a pretty cool concept for a character with a bit of work. A character with twelve distinct forms, each with its own unique strengths and weaknesses, who is _forced_ to change form regularly...you could get some interesting stories out of that.
Esch form could have different stages too so that you could have 24+ transformations if you really want to keep it fresh. Could be like if Ben 10 was forced to transform to stay alive.
As we all know Spider-Man’s greatest villain is Spider-Man
According to Dan Slott it's Peter Parker so you're not too far off from Slott's opinion.
@@@TheDreadDormammu1 Dan Slott is everything WORNG with Spider-Man.
@Captain Slimsam I would love to hear Daniel Christopher barnes playing symbiote Spider-man chasing after Skip Wescott . " Get back here Wescott! WESCOTT! you can't escape me! I'll chase you down to the ends of the Earth!"
Ok Dan Slott
I would’ve said Marvel editorial and Joe Quesada are Spidey’s greatest villains.
I love how savage you were about the ghoulish Aunt May
She looks like she chose the wrong cup.
It really isn’t that far off from what she looked like in the 70s and 80s comics I read as a kid. She was usually a frail plot device and rarely a character.
It's funny, growing up I never paid any attention to Aunt May's age, but now as an adult...Peter was like 16, so his parents were probably in their late thirties or 40s, so why is Aunt May like 95?
@@mayssm That implies that Peter's grandparents somehow had two children like fifty years apart from eachother, now I can't unsee it...
She could be any of the grandparent's sister though, which still makes her count as an aunt to Peter, funny enough, Homecoming Aunt May is the one that makes the most sense
@@mayssm I always assumed that Ben and May were Peter's great-uncle and great-aunt but he just calls then aunt and uncle. I have a couple of relatives like that.
I've heard leaving enemies with a gooey mouthful was something often done by Big Dix.
Big dix is scary
Well...you aren't necessarily wrong
Dynamite Thor would have just blown Big Dix up
Peter was straight like, "Hey newbie, you wanna go to Pizza and do that 'Giant Pizza Slice Challenge?' Maybe we can get a free t-shirt or something."
Just eyeballing it, this looks to have been the artwork of Ron Wilson, who was drawing Marvel Two-In-One at the time. Can’t verify that, there’s just certain panels that look an awful lot like his work, especially how he draws the heads in profile- I had another one of those big little books about the Fantastic Four which I originally thought was drawn by Jack Kirby, but turned out to be Herb Trimpe doing his best Jack Kirby impersonation.
I agree.
I think this was Al Milgrom that did the artwork for this book. It has the same look as Morlock 2001 from Atlas Comics, which he did the pencils for. It has his signature look for women's lips where they're very much connected and have a thick outline, plus the way shocked eyes look.
This Villain had potential if someone actually bothered to try to write them well. Wasted opportunity.
That's true with many villains from Marvel.
Agreed, it's actually an interesting concept for a potentially very complex villain, but unfortunately the quality of this story is just abysmal.
hmmm can't see how, seems gimmicky at best. It's a guy that has to transform in silly animals everyday. The only real menace is the Aquarius one and even that seems a bit..odd.
“I wish he’d stop transforming, this is getting intense.”
THAT’S a sentence I never thought I’d hear out loud.
Vegeta & co. when Frieza was beating the dog shit outta them all over Namek.
Humans @ Decepticons
Oh, this is where that goat transformation comes from! I’ve had the “Jane concentrates, a weird change, an enormous mountain goat” sequence of images saved for years, but never knew what it was from.
Also, great intro.
Aunt May looks an awful lot like a very skinny Thanos at 19:20 I'm not sure what that explains, but I'm sure it explains something.
Edit: Guess Thanos Aunt May is the reason Mr. Zodiac got dusted. That explains everything.
so you mean Thanos's Granddaughter
@@larrychilders6599 granos
Aunt Maynos
@@thatsoundslikeheresytomeyo4960 I love this
🤯🤯🤯 AYOOOOOOOOOO !!!!
Wait....how did Mr. Zodiac know he would turn to dust if he didn't transform for the day?
The same way he knew he could transform in the first place maybe?
Dude! You have to mix fernet branca with something sweet like Pepsi. You don't just drink it haha
Nice video!
Espera que? El Axl ve canales de calidad?
:0 axl capo que haces aca
:0 eres como la inquisición española, no te esperaba
He did also drink 50% alcohol apple schnapps, so...
I’ve known plenty of people (professional bartenders too) who drink fernet by itself, usually just a little shot though
I never knew Peter Parker liked pizza that much. He's basically a ninja turtle.
Raving Dave Pizza Time?
Blake Gilbert
From Spider-Man 2
Snapper Reviews I know that.
I think in the amazing spider-man 2012 movie tie in game, peter is voiced by the guy who voiced a ninja turtle.
Him and miles debate about the best pizza in NY it gets to the point where they ask shocker as a tie breaker. I believe it was amazing Spider-Man free comic book day 2019? Maybe 2018?
The fact that he is taking this comic so seriously is cracking me up! The panels are hilarious!
As an Argentine fan, I thought nothing could beat Chris talking about the Eternauta and saying "Juan Domingo Perón" out loud ... But I just saw him drink Fernet from the bottle. That was just great!
Oh, you can mix it with Coke (70% Coke, 30% Fernet) and ice, believe me when I say it's an acquired taste.
Bumping this
I like the idea of green goblin kidnapping aunt may, and the first thought spider man has is "aw man, I'll have to rescue her...as soon as I figure out which one is which...hmmmm"
Spider-Man with bad priorities? Never heard of it
-MCU Spidey-
Actually... in my youth the pizza places that were were plain and inconspicuous were slinging some of the best slices I ever ate. This was in the mid 80s - early 90s in NY and Toronto. These places always had no colour or two colours at most. Either the place was all white or white with a line of red here and there. lol No seats either. Well maybe a single table with 4 chairs but there would usually be a long counter people would stand and eat at. The guys producing the pizzas were always skinny olive skinned 30 somethings wearing thin white t-shirt and waste aprons with a pack of smokes tucked on their body somewhere. The guy taking the orders and manning the cash machine would be chain smoking like there's no tomorrow. LOL! This was the scene at all these types of places.
I wish I could remember the names of any of those places. lol Like I said, they looked almost all the same and very plain in "decor". However, the pizzas.... Oh man! The pizzas. I'd pay a fortune to go back in time just to taste those slices again. Here in Toronto, the 2 places still open have changed drastically. Really they're NOT the places from my childhood, they are just new pizza shops where the old ones used to be. SIGH! Goddamn time. Haven't gone to NY in almost 20 years. I'm sure they still got some good old school pizzas.
Never thought I'd see Spiderman do a crossover with Jane the Virgin.
Hot pursuit, gooey mouthful... The innuendos are so numerous
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It was from '76 so they couldn't outright say that spidey fucked the shit out of her. But they sure did allude to it. I would have preferred they just showed peter Parker drilling her snatch as it would have strengthened the bond between them and made the revelation that she was the villain all along have more impact
@@unstoppableExodia If Peter had sex with her, she'd stop being a Virgo and disappear!
Parker has a car from 1920's or so. Wouldn't that be a highly valued collectible by the 70s already?
God I love these longer videos. I could watch you for hours talking about comics I'll never read.
You take me on The Journey.
T H E
J O U R N E Y
I loved the big little books as a kid!!! My love for scifi comes from reading H.G. Well and Jules Verne stories from those things as a kid.
I totally remember those. I liked The Three Musketeers
I had some Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allen Poe stories!
@@ChargeQM Arabian knights
I have this one. It is as goofy as he says. Not as goofy as Electric Company Spiderman stories ... but close.
*"YOUR OFFICE IS OVER THERE"* snarls J Jonah Jameson, pointing out the window. Well, at least they got one character right.
Amazing video as always! I had to pause it many times cause I couldn't stop laughing so hard. I NEED that little book. Or at least a slice of those pizzas. About the Fernet Branca, that's a signature drink here in Argentina and you SHOULDN'T drink it pure! You mix it with a lot of Coke (about four fifths of Coke and one of Fernet) and ice. Try it like that and you're in for a treat!
Yesss. Me ahorraste las explicación. Gracias macho!
@@manusigfried2603 He might become a heavy Fernet drinker if he tries its proper preparation! Que ganas de una pizza con Fernet!!
Man I am laughing my ass off
At 18:00 the caption reads "Parking His Crate". No wonder you thought it was an odd looking car; it's actually a crate. What you are seeing in the picture is Peter using his imagination, as he sits in a crate, in his Aunt's driveway, pretending it's a car.
"I feel like all of these signs can apply to anyone."
Bingo
Hey man! Just in case you find this interesting: Mezcal and tequila are obtained from the same plant (agave) but have a few differences. Tequila is made using only blue agave, mezcal can be obtained from any agave. The name "tequila" is also a denomination of origin: Tequila is a region in Mexico, in the state of Jalisco. Only liquor extracted from blue agave in the region of Tequila may be called tequila.
Mezcal, like whiskey (I guess) can be blended and like gin can be infused. There's looooooads of varieties, and can taste very differently from one batch to another. Love your show!
Chris how could you miss the amazing, Shyamalanesque twist of this whole book? Prepare to have your mind blown: Mr Zodiac turns into all 12 zodiac signs! That's right, Jane Virgo was one of the 12 zodiac signs all along!!!
So Peter was horny for an actual guy.
🤯 YOOOOOO !!!!!
Libra got me. Could not stop laughing
They could have done like a blind justice holding the scales character but NOPE big scale. That's what the kids think is hip
"how will we represent Libra?" "I know!"
⚖️💨💨💨
I thought about that too & Maybe they didn’t want to give away MISTER Zodiac’s identity. It would have been Jane barely dressed holding the scales.
I had this book and a bunch of the others. This was my first comic book in a lifetime of collecting. So it has a special place in my heart.
Same here. Book fair purchase in kindergarten. Still got the book!
To drink Fernet Branca you must to mix it first with Coca-cola! It's Argentina's favorite drink!
Oh hi, you caught m...
I am not certain whether it's purposely part of the introduction setup or an edit blooper, tbh
@@nozoto it was a setup
When you mentioned the sharks angry eyebrow, I couldn’t help but think of the Mrs. potato head line from toy story “don’t forget your angry eyes”
Remember the Zodiac villains the S.H.I.E.L.D and Nick Fury used to fight against, at one point? Why weren't they used for this story instead is beyond me ._.
When I lived in Reno, NV: There was a place called Nu Yawk Pizza that served pizza slices almost as huge as the ones in this book.
Drinking, spiderman, and youtube on labor day weekend. It is well with my sole. Thanks comic tropes guy.
Aunt May looks like the old version of Gary Oldman’s Dracula. Yikes.
The highlight was definitely your reaction to drinking the apple schnapps. Hilarious!
I think I've read (at least part of) this Big Little Book! I never owned any, but I remember some that my cousins owned that I would read when we visited... Spider man, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost,,, BLBs were a great introduction for small kids to longer form books and novels. good times, and a great review as always!
“This shark is evil and it bites a boat just to prove how evil it is” best line ever.
Chris went from "this story is crazy" to "this is one of the worst Spider-Man stories" in the drop of a hat
That's an escalation that both gives me amusement and dread
Well, he was drinking a lot.
Thanks for the review, Chris. I had this book as a kid and this brings back fond memories.
I read this book when I was little. If I remember correctly part of Astro's origin mentioned the volcano cooking the outer layer of his brain or something
This story had much more potential - imagine if Peter starts dating Jane Virgo, becomes her boyfriend, falls in love and in the end it's revealed that she's actually a guy!
I guess Spiderman really wouldn't date girls.
Wow! Just as I read this comment, I noticed a video's thumbnail asking "Are traps gay?" TH-cam's algorithms really are something.
@@kimifw58 Yes! ContraPoints infiltrating to talk about the mouthfeel.
Imagine the transphobic uproar if Peter was anything less than thrilled at being lied to by a trans woman. There'd be angry villagers with torches and pitchforks at the gates of marvel's offices baying for blood at the perpetuation of transphobic narratives.
@@unstoppableExodia
Totally, now imagine how justified that would be.
HAHAHA! Great episode, I laughed so hard throughout the video that I had to keep rewinding it.
19:32 Lifeforce is one of my favorite movies.
There is no Astro, there is only Zuul!
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The Car Spider-Man is driving at around 18:00 may be an Citroën 2CV also known as the "Ugly Duckling", it was (back in the day) a really affordable car for students from that time period (especially in The Netherlands), I guess the artist just couldn't draw it right but there's some semblence.
The line: "Spider-Man Wouldn't Date Girls!" at 19:50 is probably because back then there was a very stereotypical thing about kids being like: "Eeww, girls!" or: "Eeww, boys!". The writer probably made the kid project himself onto Spider-Man which may explain the weird sentence.
Love this channel so much. Recently stumbled across it, and I have been enjoying myself thoroughly. Keep it up!
I had no idea what I was getting into and I LOVED IT. This channel is amazing.
Hey, Chris! I had this book when I was a kid. Like most children's entertainment, it didn't matter if it made no sense as long as it gave you something to read while your parents were busy. Anyway, I remember the scorpion on the cover and maybe that's why I wrote a LSH chapter called The Sky Rider and the Scorpion a few years back. I'm really enjoying these dedicated forays into weird super-hero stuff and I'd like to see you do another drinking game. Those reactions are priceless.
we get more backstory in the chris cinematic universe. He sells cars and poops in litter-boxes
HOLY CRAP this just brought back lost memories.
I had this book as a kid. Great memories
It’s like the writer wanted to include all the signs in the story but procrastinated by writing the same series of events a couple times then shoved the rest of the signs in the last dozen pages.
I love your work, could you maybe put some sound padding in your studio to cancel out the echo :)
That or trying to use a dynamic microphone.
Adds to the experience
Most of it could probably be removed in the edit with a plug-in. It wouldn’t be perfect but it would be a noticeable improvement.
Yeah, but it kinda encapsulates the PBS-esque lofi quality of the channel. I actually wouldn't change a thing
Hit up his Patreon and give him a couple hundred dollars.
It's well known in martial arts circles that a karate chop is the only way to deal with Kung Fu wrestlers.
There used to be a Spider-Man strip in the newspaper years ago. The art looks similar to that but very simplified.
Larry Lieber (aka Stan Lee's brother) used to do that strip. This could well be his work.
It’s always a full send here at comic tropes
Betty Brandt...the secretary at the Bugle...dated Peter for a while. Probably why she was rude to Virgo in the beginning.
Seems like we have a case of a writer who was given a blurb about Spider-Man and not much else to work with, but they tried to touch on the tropes that were listed. Fun video. If any other characters make the news like ole' web head did this week I wouldn't mind seeing another story like this.
I read the book as a 10 year old during summer vacation in around 1960, and I enjoyed it. Well, OK...live and learn
Is it just me, or does Jane Virgo look a lot like Sharron Tate/Margot Robbie playing her
New Warriors annual 3 on the spinner rack? That was my favorite series as a teenager and still holds a special place in my heart. Though I know it's there because of the lame polybag and trading card introducing a new villain, lol.
That pizza eating panel is so funny to me. The pizza slices are ridiculously huge, their sitting positions are weird and awkward, the text on the window, the chef is spinning the dough from inside the kitchen but the dough is outside? what is he doing. And then the caption, "Eating Pizza". Like yeah, we noticed.
From one 🦁 to another, amazing work as always Chris 😁👍
How dare you suggest zodiac signs don’t accurately predict personality! I’m not a fun-loving Scorpio and I hate fun!
Even if astrology isnt legit, your sign is just 1 of many, you have 1 for each "planet" and 1 per section of the sky (known as a house), with it being divided into 12. More than that, there are angles between planets that alter their properties, and a planet's position in a house can too. Your sun sign (what people consider your main sign) is probably only the third most important, determining your ego's desires and growth.
Well said
Jesus christ I had one shot of Bombay sapphire and felt like I was being killed. This guy is a beast
I lost it at the scale transformation page. Spider-man is like 'Wow, would you look at that!'
I saw this book at a second hand store when I was a kid: I wanted to get it, but we couldn't afford it. 😞 Also, Marvel gave Astro an entry in their Handbook of the Marvel Universe and this all supposedly took place on Earth-616 (the reality where the mainstream Marvel Universe takes place)
This is so brilliantly hilarious!!!! Omg....I laugh every time.
So at first I wasn’t so sure, but I have to admit, your channel is awesome. I could listen to this all day
21:56 JESUS, that hair! Is J. Jonah Jameson turning into Legion?
He was about achieve Super Saiyan.
I hear absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.
“A gooey mouthful”
Ugh my imagination is acting up
Mr. Zodiac was Spiderman's greatest villain because he almost killed a real life person via alcohol poisoning that is why Spiderman had to attempt to tram them with a train
Bro your take on this book has to be the funniest thing I’ve heard in awhile, thanks for the laugh.. cheers and keep reading comics 🤙🏽
I remember those thick little books from when I was a kid. I remember having a Fantastic Four one and I think a Batman one.
"It's a good thing he wasn't thinking about his lunch."
Spider-Man's greatest enemy: THE SANDWICH
Jez, that thumbnail brings back memories. Gran bought this beauty for me.
What a nostalgic trip this video was for me. I owned this book, and quite a few other books of this same type, when I was a kid. I read this one a lot. It's too bad the only (I think) zodiac transformation that didn't happen in the book was Cancer, my sign, so I didn't get to see the drink accompaniment for that one.
Always good to see you get loaded for an episode, Chris!
I would love to see a comic where Spider-man strips for action and gives everybody a gooey mouthful
Omg, you did great with this video, you had me dying listening to this.
“Spider-Man wouldn’t date girls” because that kid Ben was probably still in the “girls have cooties” phase. At least, that’s the impression I got.
same... I thought that was pretty easy to put together he just has modern comic tropes in mind and it confused him.
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Also, I’ll have you know that I have been recycling air since the first crusade.
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Peter is really rocking that pompadour/sideburns look.
It finally it makes sense. That one David Fincher movie about Ironman, Hulk and Mysterio against Mr. Zodiac was a tie in all along
I had that book as a kid and I read it repeatedly. I'm embarrassed to admit that I loved it. I was probably 7, but still.
Your intro skits are some of the best on TH-cam
Had this book as a kid. Thanks for the revisit.
This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a while, awesome video! 😂
Oooo I remember getting these as a little kid from my local Woolworth in the mid 70s