No, originally all the heroes and villains on Earth got transported to another planet in "Secret Wars". During the course of which, Spidey's costume got destroyed and he was given a new organic one by some alien or another. Which turned out to be evil.

Ooh.

Huh. Is that how they did it in the animated series?

Aha, see, that's what I remember. John Jameson brings down Promethium X on a space mission, on which the symbiote tags along. I imagine that's more the way they'll do it rather than the "Secret Wars" thing.

Comics are so vast and confusing.

(Okay, hee. Apparently, someone got on IMDb one time and made it look like Aunt May was going to be Carnage. Heeeee.)

On the F, C, M front:

Jackman set for Wolverine spinoff

AMSTERDAM (Hollywood Reporter) - Hugh Jackman's Wolverine will headline a spinoff of 20th Century Fox's "X-Men" franchise.

At international industry conference Cine Expo, the studio promised the gathered exhibitors a Jackman starrer titled "Wolverine" for next year. Jackman himself sent the conventioneers a taped promise to back up the news.

F and M--the only thing I'm gonna C is his clothes.

See, for a long time I was forgetting that Topher Grace and Tobey Maguire were different people.

This has been a confusing discussion for me.

In other news I just saw Say Anything. It was adorable. And the ending was great.

ETA: And Ione Skye has a cute lisp.

I caught the middle of Shadowlands on cable over the weekend, and had to watch the rest of it even though I knew I'd be sobbing before it was over (and I was!). The last scene has Lewis meeting a new student at his office, and I could have sworn that the actor playing the student was Tobey Maguire with a dubbed-over English accent. He wasn't, but looked amazingly like him.

I just came back from A Scanner Darkly, and last night I saw The Science of Sleep. Reality is not high on my brain's list of Things To Percieve right now.

I really liked both of them. Science of Sleep provoked a really interesting discussion with DH -- turns out we were viewing the main character almost completely differently, and came away with exact opposite opinions on what the overall tone of the film was. But Gael Garcia Bernal continues to be the hottest thing EVAR, not to mention funny as all get out. And acting in three languages, meaning he's also got to be pretty smart. In conclusion, GUH. (Oh, and Michel Gondry's writing and direction were cool too. But more importantly, there's a scene with Gael Garcia Bernal in a bathtub.)

A Scanner Darkly was also pretty cool. I love this style of animation, and it works amazingly well for this story. Robert Downy Jr is hysterical, and Keanu is Keanu. (Which is to say, adorable, even animated. He's just so Keanu-y.) I can't comment on it as an adaptation because I haven't read the book in way too long to remember it that well.

Rotoscope animation is just wonderful, isn't it? I have the urge to run out and see if there are any video stores open after midnight that stock Ralph Bakshi movies.

I dislike rotoscope animation intensely. It's Uncanny Valley territory for me.

I stopped reading Spiderman comics before Venom came along. Maybe I should go do some research. What are the "Ultimate" versions?

They're kind of "modern" retellings of the Marvel canon. They started, what, four or five years ago? But everything is reset in the Ultimate universe, so the writers get to do things differently yet still tell some rockin' stories.

Ultimate Spider-Man is written by Brian Michael Bendis, who is awesome and horribly prolific like nobody's business.