Negative one million degrees?

[The Borg Queen]

Would it help if I re-phrased my comment to:

Wow. What a lucky co-incidence that someone with the intelligence to make something like artificial super-webbing was the one to get super-spider powers.

Imagine if it was just an ordinary person who got super-spider powers instead!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Actually, he was a pilot, not an astronaut; not until he flew Reed's ship, anyway. And the knuckledragger thing is an affectation; he is actually very smart.

Well, Brand New Day is obviously a major retcon, but I approve of most of the fixes; it's a shame they screwed up so much that they had to take such drastic action.

 

[Trekker4747]

The organic web-shooters made more sense to me too. As smart as Peter Parker is supposed to be, him making this compound that is tacky on the outside but super-adhesive on its ends and has an incredible tinsile strength on the budget and other limitations of a high-school/college student is, well... dumb.

So the organic webshooters made more sense especially in the more "naturalistic" tone of the movies. (Though having his spidery-webshooters coming out of wrists in the context of the movie was silly. But I guess it was the preferable option. )

The self-made web-shooters might make more "sense" in the comics (and even that's thin) but in the movie organics works better.

 

[Skywalker]

Actually, he was a pilot, not an astronaut; not until he flew Reed's ship, anyway. And the knuckledragger thing is an affectation; he is actually very smart.

You sure? I could have sworn Ben worked for NASA after coming up as a test pilot, and Reed asked him to pilot his ship.

 

[Hermiod]

Actually, he was a pilot, not an astronaut; not until he flew Reed's ship, anyway. And the knuckledragger thing is an affectation; he is actually very smart.

Well, Brand New Day is obviously a major retcon, but I approve of most of the fixes; it's a shame they screwed up so much that they had to take such drastic action.

They didn't screw things up that much. A lot of us liked the way things were. He was happily married, he had a proper job, he was an accepted part of the superhero community instead of a wanted vigilante.

They screwed things up by having him unmask, though.

Imagine if it was just an ordinary person who got super-spider powers instead!

JJJ : "Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. What are the odds?"

 

[RJDiogenes]

Actually, he was a pilot, not an astronaut; not until he flew Reed's ship, anyway. And the knuckledragger thing is an affectation; he is actually very smart.

You sure? I could have sworn Ben worked for NASA after coming up as a test pilot, and Reed asked him to pilot his ship.

They may have retconned that, I suppose. At first he was just a fighter pilot in WWII-- obviously that can't be the case anymore.

They didn't screw things up that much. A lot of us liked the way things were. He was happily married, he had a proper job, he was an accepted part of the superhero community instead of a wanted vigilante.

They screwed things up by having him unmask, though.

I was okay with the wife and the job, ambivalent about him being accepted and against the unmasking. All that other stuff really didn't belong. Although I read the first few issues of JMS's run and I was intrigued by the metafictional aspects of it; as I recall, they never said any of that was true, just that it was Ezekial's interpretation. Although that may have changed later, too.