Thing is, deb, everyone else will automatically equate 'spider-sense' with Spiderman. And it might throw people out of the story.
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Yeah, it caught at the corner of my conscious brain, and I couldn't help wondering about it.
Anyone here old enough to remember when Spiderman was introduced? Because I'm totally ignorant of comics.
Easy enough to change the phrase, certainly, but shit, I hate to. Because if you take the #%%$#$# pop culture reference out of it, it's precisely how she senses danger coming her way.
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1962, Deb.
You're wrong, Teppy. It was the late 60s. I'll google.
I googled too quickly, Elena. 1962, Amazing Fantasy #15.
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I should change that anyway, I suppose, since she certainly wouldn't be a Spiderman type (she's way more of a sitar type), and if everyone's going to make that association.....
Goddamnit.
Plus in the last 10 years or so, Marvel's done a huge push to publicize Spidey. Hence the clone saga and the baby--heck, Peter and MJ's wedding had the royal treatment. I think a lot of Buffistas are at least marginally comic geeks, and Spider-man is nearly as iconic as Batman and Superman.
Gosh, nearly forgot the "-" in Spider-man. t says the former back stock manager of a comic book store
Beat me to it. 1962. Amazing Fantasy #15.
OK, does this work?
It had been many years since I'd last felt this, and in the past, it had always been an omen, the strands of my web of awareness triggering to the delicate footsteps of something bad to come. Something loomed...