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A Special Blog: Mary Anne Saves The Day and why Trans Youth need Help.
March 17, 2022 in Blogs
The people in charge of Texas are being shitheads right now and there is no way to get around that nor is there any way to get around the fact that Greg Abbott is a monster that needs to be ousted ASAP. Anyone that has been following the news that Abbott wants to stop Gender Affirming Care for Trans youth and wants to take trans children away from their families because, in his twisted mind, trans children being who they truly are is a form of abuse. The state has started investigating families with trans children as a way of saying these families are criminals.
The Baby-Sitters Club is a series of books written by Ann M. Martin about a group of girls that take on various babysitting jobs. The fourth book in the series, Mary Anne Saves The Day deals with the titular Mary Anne having to take her charge, a young Jenny to the hospital because of a high fever.
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A Look at Disney Valentines Special: Enchanting Grom Fright (The Owl House)
February 14, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
In many respects, love and fear go together more than one would think. On Twitter, I posted a poll asking my followers which Lumity episode they’d like to see review for Valentine’s Day, and Enchanting Grom Fright won out. In many ways, it seems apt that this would win. However, let’s return to my original statement of how love and fear go together.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of the Ghost-Spider: Marvel Rising: Battle of The Bands
February 10, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
An aspect of Gwen that I haven’t had time to bring up during this event is that she’s a musician, specifically a drummer. Most of the adaptions save for Marvel Rising and even the Disney Junior cartoon which has finally brought focus to this aspect has left it ignored. Yes, we did see it briefly in Spider-Verse but that was only for a moment.
In one aspect I do get it as the superheroics are more important when focusing on Spider-Gwen/Ghost-Spider in adaptions but at the same time, her being a drummer and part of a band is such an integral part of her character. The Mary Janes, the band that she’s a part of makes up her social circle, and also drumming serves as another outlet for Gwen. Although Marvel Rising seems to have given the band a different name as The Emm Jays Mary Janes is what I knew them as first.
Furthermore, something that Marvel Rising finally adapts is the tense relationship between MJ and Gwen because of Gwen running late for practice because of her superheroing.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: Marvel Rising: Chasing Ghosts
February 9, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
As I mentioned yesterday, the shorts that I took a look at were a lead-in for a movie that would follow up on Gwen’s journey to find the person who killed Kevin and clear her name. This is also the first time that you see Gwen team up with the team that Marvel Rising is focused on, the Secret Warriors.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: Marvel Rising: Initiation
February 8, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
The Marvel Rising franchise is interesting in many ways, it seems like Marvel responding to the success of DC Superhero Girls.
Not so much in style but rather the big two noticing that young girls also like superheroes and wanted to find a way to market to this audience that hadn’t been tapped into before. I say that as both franchises featured animated specials, toys, and even some comics to tie into these franchises.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: Mother’s Day Mayhem (Spidey and His Amazing Friends)
February 7, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Spider-Man fans can be weird in that they can claim they love a character but seem to hate everything that surrounds the character or any piece of media surrounding them. I noticed that with this particular cartoon, which is a literal preschool cartoon but yet some Spidey fans are upset that this isn’t like Spider-Man: The Animated Series or Specultalr. While those cartoons are indeed great, that is not what something like this is going for. Because it’s a cartoon for young kids that can be used to introduce the youngest Spidey fans to the world of Marvel while also imparting valuable life lessons. In a lot of ways, this show reminds me of the Muppet Babies trend that seems to be making a comeback in reimaging popular characters as young kids.
As that very much seems to be what this show is going for and you know what if the young kids like it, that’s great. This episode I’ve chosen to look at is perhaps a good one in that regard as it teaches kids that you shouldn’t always rush in and it’s okay to rely on the help of others.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: Marvel Super Hero Adventures
February 4, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Superheroes are something that should be enjoyed by everyone though older people may not want you to believe that. I bring that up today and with our next entry, we are looking at entities that are strictly edutainment and some older fans hate that idea. However, edutainment and Spider-Man do have an intertwined history in a way. After all, if one is to look back to the original The Electric Company, Spidey was included in that show in the Spidey Super Stories segment.
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The Brick Theater: LEGO Marvel Spider-Man: Vexed by Venom
February 3, 2022 in Blogs, The Brick Theater
LEGO and Spider-Man have a long history. There have been Spidey sets since as far back as the original Raimi trilogy. Including one unreleased set.
And now as I mentioned in the opening blog for my Ghost-Spider event on A Look at Disney, the character of Ghost-Spider has been adapted into a toy numerous times and that does include LEGO. As seen here with this minifigure.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: The Day Without Spider-Man (Spider-Man (2017))
February 2, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
As I mentioned when we looked at the Spider-Island arc, we weren’t quite done with the 2017 series as Gwen would eventually get her powers back in the second season and not only does she get her powers back in this episode, this is the episode where dons the moniker Ghost-Spider. Thankfully, unlike yesterday where I looked at five episodes in a whole arc, this is is just one episode and that’s a bit easier to look at.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: Spider Island (Spider-Man (2017))
February 1, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
Spider-Man (2017) is not bad in itself but there are times when I was watching it for this event that it felt there were too many Spiders. On the one hand, I do get it but at the same time, it’s a bit annoying. Now, this first arc that we are looking for the Ghost-Spider event is titled Spider-Island and from what I learned from a friend is based on a 2011 storyline. That is interesting as considering Gwen had not yet debuted as a hero. From what I’ve seen online, the basic beats of the storyline are there.
Overall, this arc itself isn’t bad but it did not need to be five episodes long. With that, I will give you plot details but again it’ll be in more broad strokes. Once again like the previous post, while I will bring up the other characters where necessary but the focus will remain on Gwen.
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A Look at Disney’s Power of The Ghost-Spider: Return to the Spider-Verse (Ultimate Spider-Man)
January 31, 2022 in A Look at Disney, Blogs
The original Gwen Stacy is an interesting character in that to most people she’s mostly known for being the love interest for Peter Parker before Mary Jane and her infamous death.
Now Gwen Stacy being a friend/love interest of Peter Parker has been adapted for both the small and big screen. Take for example the great take on Gwen from Spectular Spider-Man and of course, there’s Emma Stone as Gwen in the Andrew Garfield movies.
However, we are not here to look at these versions of Gwen Stacy but rather versions of my favorite superhero.
Spider-Gwen/Spider-Woman/Ghost-Spider debuted in Edge of Spider-Verse before getting her ongoing series in 2015. Her popularity quickly soared to the point that there were toys, she was appearing in video games and she quickly gained traction when she appeared in Into The Spider-Verse voiced by Hailee Steinfeld (Yep, MCU’s Kate Bishop) and will be seen again in that movie’s sequel.
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I’m Not Going Anywhere (An Original Story by Timothy Murphy)
January 30, 2022 in Blogs
“Rachel, Ariel and Blaire are here to see you” Cassie had let her little sister know but Rachel was in no mood to see her best friends.
“Tell them to go home, I don’t want anyone to see me. My life is ruined because of what that dummy posted online” Rachel cried in between sobs hugging her stuffed cat, Diana. Rachel felt as though Diana was the only one she could find solace with in this moment. She had just wanted to be left alone and couldn’t understand why her sister wouldn’t leave her alone.
Yes, she called Cassie to come and pick her up after the incident at school. Cassie did try to ask her sister about it when she got in Cassie’s car but Cassie could tell that her baby sister was too shaken to want to speak about it.
“Rachel, we’ve all been caught doing embarrassing things. It’s not a big deal” Blaire said trying to reassure her friend who was still crying. In trying to cheer her friend up, Blaire just made things worse. Rachel looked around her room for something to throw at her friend for saying something so stupid. Ariel noticed this and spoke up.
“Blaire, please think before you speak next time” Ariel said shaking her head. Ariel had an idea of how she could cheer up her friend. And on cue, she started singing.
“And if you threw a party/Invited everyone you knew/Well, you would see the biggest gift would be from me/And the card attached would say”
“Thank you for being a friend” Rachel completed the song through tears. Ariel learned a long time ago when the girls were about six years old, that song always calmed Rachel down. Rachel was still crying and hugging the life out of Diana but she was ready to let her best friends in. She needed them right now. She meant no offense to Diana but she needed to talk to someone.
“I…I just don’t understand why she felt the need to film that and laugh at me. She just had to make my life harder than it already is” Rachel said sobbing as Ariel launched into a hug for her crying best friend brushing Rachel’s blonde hair out of her eyes.
“Rachel, I’m so sorry she did that but she was expelled for what she did to you” Ariel tried to comfort her unsure if it worked.
“Yeah but she uploaded it to YouTube for the world to see. I can’t show my face at school ever again” Rachel said as the crying slowly started to stop bringing up a video on her phone titled FUNNY SEIZURE GIRL. It was just so cruel Ariel thought, no one let alone her best friend should be mocked for something they can’t control but this jerkface felt the need to film Rachel having a seizure in front of her locker.
Ariel could see the tears were about to start back up again.
“Rachel, put that phone down and pick Diana back up. I love you, Cassie loves you, Blaire loves you even if she doesn’t always think about what she says” Ariel said looking Rachel directly in her eyes and she was starting to tear up. She hated seeing Rachel like this. She knew how sensitive Rachel was about her epilepsy and was how scared she was Ariel would leave her, the first time she saw Rachel having a seizure.
“I didn’t leave you when I saw you have a seizure for the first time and that’s never gonna change. We’re best friend sisters for life. You know that right?”
“I…I do!” Rachel said slowly regaining her confidence still squeezing Diana while also tightly holding onto Ariel and Blaire wanting them to never leave afraid the crying would start again the moment they walked out her door. Rachel looked at her two friends trying to compose herself.
“Please don’t leave me?”
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Cassie told their mom what had happened and Gretchen called Ariel and Blaire’s parents asking if they could stay. Gretchen knew how much her daughter needed her friends. The three best friends had set up camp in the living room watching a marathon of their favorite movies. Ariel looked at her friend one more time who seemed to be in a much better mood.and reassured her.
“I’m not going anywhere”.
