Major Spoilers Podcast #434: Spider-Man Blue

Published: Aug. 8, 2012, 5:09 a.m.

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In this issue: Spider-Man is blue, The Creature is back, and so is Red Sonja. Zach pays a visit, and Archer and Armstrong ride again!

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NEWS\n
Daredevil and Fox in talks with Marvel and Disney\n
LINK

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REVIEWS\n
\nStephen\n
RED SONJA: ATLANTIS RISES #1\n
32 pages FC \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Teen +\n
Written by LUKE LIEBERMAN\n
Art by MAX DUNBAR\n
Cover by LUCIO PARRILLO\n
Know also O Prince, that Thulsa Doom did not go quietly into the night, his spirit endured, weak and horrible and viscous. Free of all humanity, hungering with a primal desire, all his thoughts were bent on but a single purpose, Thulsa Doom wanted to go Home. Atlantis Ressurrection! When that which sank beneath the waves rises once more, and the Empire of Atlantis remembers its lost glory, can Sonja save the Hyborean nations from slavery and DOOM!

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[rating:3/5]

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Rodrigo\n
It Came From Beneath the Sea... AGAIN #1\n
In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy encountered and destroyed a gigantic octopus that attacked shipping and wreaked havoc on the west coast of the United States. American forces killed the creature and ended the threat once and for all. Or so they thought. They were wrong. Now, another monster is rising in the warm blue waters surrounding Taru Taru, a speck of land far out in the Pacific. And this time it\u2019s worse than anyone ever imagined.

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[rating:3/5]

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Matthew\n
ARCHER AND ARMSTRONG #1\n
Writer: Fred Van Lente\n
Artist: Clayton Henry\n
Publisher: Valiant Entertainment\n
Cover Price: $3.99\n
After years of training, Obadiah Archer has been dispatched to the heart of America\u2019s festering modern day Babylon, aka New York City, to root out and kill the infamous Great Satan of his parents\u2019 sect. Unfortunately, dying has never been easy for Archer\u2019s target \u2013 the hard-drinking year-old immortal known as Armstrong. Together, this unlikely pair of heroes is about to stumble headfirst into a centuries-old conspiracy that will bring the whole of ancient history crashing down on the modern day Valiant Universe. And that\u2019s going to mean one Hell of a hangover.

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[rating:4.5/5]

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ZACH\n
THUN\u2019DA #1\n
48 pages FC \u2022 $3.99 \u2022 Teen +\n
Written by ROBERT PLACE NAPTON\n
Art by CLIFF RICHARDS\n
Cover by JAE LEE\n
Fans, ask your retailer for these variant incentive covers!\n
\u2022 JAE LEE black & white art cover retailer incentive\n
\u2022 JAE LEE \u201cvirgin art\u201d cover retailer incentive\n
The time is now. A Military helicopter crash lands in a remote valley in Africa. A lone survivor awakens with no memory of who he is or what he was doing there, but he\u2019s wearing a uniform and is a skilled combatant. From the wreckage he learns only his name \u2014 ROGER DRUM. As he explores his new surroundings he is confronted by a bizarre lost world of dinosaurs and other strange creatures. Drum must learn to survive in this terrifying new reality while coming to terms with fragments of a past he isn\u2019t sure he wants to remember. As a bonus, this over-sized issue also includes the original first issue with fantastic art by the one-and-only Frank Frazetta at no extra cost!

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[rating:2/5]

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Major Spoilers Poll of the Week

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As promised, this week, it is the battle between the House Elf and the Gollum.\xa0 Need we say more?

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Discussion: \n
Spider-Man Blue\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about remembering someone so important to me I was going to spend the rest of my life with her.\u201d What Peter Parker didn\u2019t know was that meant Gwen Stacy would only get to spend the rest of her life with him. This is the story of how they fell in love. Or more appropriately, how they almost didn\u2019t fall in love. Welcome to Spider-Man\u2019s life. Bad before good. It\u2019s kind of amazing. So to get the girl of his dreams, he\u2019ll have to run the gauntlet of the Green Goblin, the Rhino, two Vultures and a mysterious man in the shadows controlling it all. Join the Eisner Award-winning team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale (Superman for All Seasons, Batman: The Long Halloween, DAREDEVIL: YELLOW, HULK: GRAY) in the story about Peter Parker\u2019s first love, Gwen Stacy. Highlighted by the introduction of Mary Jane Watson, it is a critical moment in Spider-Man\u2019s life when everything was just coming together \u2013 only to fall apart. Collecting SPIDER-MAN: BLUE #1-6.

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