Spider-Man playing miniature golf

Spider convention illustration by Maris Wicks. She posted an octopus, too.

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Iron Spider paper toy

Download the Iron Spider paper toy here.

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Tron, Spider-Girl

"Data Fragmentation" by Patrick Bateman (who has lots of other Tron art in his gallery):



Patrick based his illustration on this photo by Marcus Ranum:



And Marcus's gallery is full of fascinating (and many NSFW) photographs including a gallery of Spider-Girl photos:



Via.

The Muppet version of Bono (and Spider-Man)

Sesame Street takes a shot at Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Via.

*Previously: SNL mocks Turn Off the Dark (and Bono).

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Spider-Man: Edge of Time wallpaper and trailer (plus two game reviews)

Here's the trailer for Spider-Man: Edge of Time. I cropped a widescreen wallpaper featuring Anti-Venom:



Which all gives me a good reason to finally mention how much I liked the DS version of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. I picked up Shattered Dimensions ($20 at Amazon) and Ben 10: Ultimate Alien (also $20) for my boys. But after they asked me for help with the Spidey game, I fell in love with it and claimed it for my own. The game is a lot like Metroid starring Spider-Man. He controls so well and has so many moves that for quite awhile I simply enjoyed swinging and crawling on walls. I highly, highly recommend it. (You can watch a full playthrough here.) I can't think of any game I've actually enjoyed replaying this much. My 4 and 6 year olds have also come to love it as long as I help them past the two or three tricky parts.

What's strange is that it and the Ben 10 game were both made by Griptonite. And Ben 10 was abysmal in every way - - the characters control terribly, it's difficult to see where to go next, the next platform is always off camera so jumps are blind and often fatal, save zones are too far apart, and cut scenes are long, boring and unskippable.

Spider-Man rebooted by Kate Beaton

One of five new strips by Kate Beaton in which she asks, What if...Spider-Man had been bitten by a brown recluse spider?

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Super Hero Pictograms

Some of Tedyy Hahn's 15 super hero pictograms.