was Jake's 80s Action Hero voice actually a dead-on Diedrich Bader impression?

Yes. And it is, in fact, awesome.

Yes. And it is, in fact, awesome.

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My theory is he lost is zeal for comics when everything went down with his son. Almost everything before that is great, well-written, emotional (if manipulative), character-based comics. And everything after is just Big Dumb Bombastic Loud Action Movie like he's trying to one-up Mark Millar.

My theory is he lost is zeal for comics when everything went down with his son. Almost everything before that is great, well-written, emotional (if manipulative), character-based comics. And everything after is just Big Dumb Bombastic Loud Action Movie like he's trying to one-up Mark Millar.

Then definitely check it out. It's basically an Anthology series all set in the Spider-verse and it's fantastic.

Then definitely check it out. It's basically an Anthology series all set in the Spider-verse and it's fantastic.

Yes, but only if you already have a pretty strong sense of the Marvel Universe and how it works.

Yes, but only if you already have a pretty strong sense of the Marvel Universe and how it works.

a lot of the reason behind the terrible writing has to do with The Marvel Method where the artists would sometimes just draw the whole comic with no script beforehand and Lee would have to just fill everything in as went and try to make sense of it.

a lot of the reason behind the terrible writing has to do with The Marvel Method where the artists would sometimes just draw the whole comic with no script beforehand and Lee would have to just fill everything in as went and try to make sense of it.

The two books I always recommend to anyone starting out on Spider-Man are "Spider-Man/Human Torch"  and "Spider-Man: Blue" as between the two of them they tell you pretty much anything you need to know about Peter Parker the person and Spider-Man the hero.

The two books I always recommend to anyone starting out on Spider-Man are "Spider-Man/Human Torch"  and "Spider-Man: Blue" as between the two of them they tell you pretty much anything you need to know about Peter Parker the person and Spider-Man the hero.

@avclub-c766c75666111cab4aa6bb75a5424bc0:disqus except it still seems insulting to the audience to not know HEY THAT'S AN XBOX CONTROLLER I BET HE'S PLAYING A VIDEO GAME without making it sound like they're always playing DigDug

@avclub-c766c75666111cab4aa6bb75a5424bc0:disqus except it still seems insulting to the audience to not know HEY THAT'S AN XBOX CONTROLLER I BET HE'S PLAYING A VIDEO GAME without making it sound like they're always playing DigDug

I'm sensing a submarine shaped pattern here…

I'm sensing a submarine shaped pattern here…

When all the characters in a movie speak a foreign language, let's say… I don't know, Russian and only Russian, and there's no reason for them to speak anything other than Russian, but instead they speak English with a Russian accent. I call this the "K-19 Effect"