{"id":984,"date":"2009-04-12T17:48:39","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=984"},"modified":"2010-01-24T18:44:57","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T00:44:57","slug":"ultimate-spider-man-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Spider-Man: Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m officially a broken record. All the same, the Ultimate Spider-Man series continues to impress. You really wouldn&#8217;t think that another fight with Doctor Octopus would be all that much of a much, but where <a title=\"Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 10: Hollywood by Brian Michael Bendis, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Vol-10-Hollywood\/dp\/0785114025\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood<\/a> shines is in all the gaps and cracks getting filled in with juicy, delicious plot. And also, in this case, heaping doses of meta-humor. Because, you see, there&#8217;s a certain movie about a certain urban superhero, filmed by a certain Sam Raimi and starring a certain Tobey Maguire. And it&#8217;s being filmed in Manhattan without the permission of or payments to a certain Peter Parker.[1] As if that (and let us not forget Doc Ock) wasn&#8217;t enough, longtime Parker houseguest Gwen Stacy reaches a critical turning point!<\/p>\n<p>[1] I think that said movie, in reality, was one of the inspiring forces behind the Ultimate universe reboot of Marveldom in the first place. Which takes the metaness to a whole new level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m officially a broken record. All the same, the Ultimate Spider-Man series continues to impress. You really wouldn&#8217;t think that another fight with Doctor Octopus would be all that much of a much, but where Hollywood shines is in all the gaps and cracks getting filled in with juicy, delicious plot. And also, in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[123,17,124,125,126,38,22,127,40],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-brian-michael-bendis","tag-graphic-novel","tag-gwen-stacy","tag-heaping-doses-of-meta-humor","tag-juicy-delicious-plot","tag-marvel","tag-superheroes","tag-tobey-maguire","tag-ultimate-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}