User blog:Ben 1,000,911/"IT'S CRAZY-TOWN BANANA-PANTS!"

When Amazing Spider-Man Volume 1 ended with Peter Parker dead (spoiler alert, sorry), I was done. I didn't want to even look at the new series that was to come out featuring Otto Octavius in his place as the "Superior Spider-Man." Now that that series is done too, and the third volume of Amazing Spider-Man just came out (there was a 58-issue Amazing Spider-Man Volume 2 in the late 90's, #442-499), I'm now deciding to read Superior Spider-Man (call me a band wagoner if you must). Anyways, my point is that I just started reading Superior Spider-Man, and issue 1 was not bad. The second issue wasn't awful either, and one line in that issue really caught my eye. Mayor J. Jonah Jameson states that he was wrong about Spider-Man and shakes his hand. Peter's ghost (or whatever he is) is appalled that now Jameson is appreciating him, but only when Parker's dead! He describes the situation in a funny sentence, at least to me. "IT'S CRAZY-TOWN BANANA PANTS!" Mary Jane later said it in the next panel, and when Carlie Cooper asks what that was about, Mary Jane said that it was something Peter used to say. Now, I could only think of two possible reasonable options for her saying this. One, it was a mistake by the writer (or whomever is in charge) because Peter is dead but no one is supposed to know it at the time (besides Doc Ock, of course). Two, Peter used to say that line a lot like a catchphrase but then it got old or overused. That got me thinking. I know that they just thought of the line now, and probably won't ever use it again. But, if they had used it in past Spider-Man comics, when would it have been? When his parents (actually robots) turned up alive? When Norman Osborn revealed himself as the Green Goblin? Or do you think he will or could use it in the future, like when he finally meets Silk, his Original Sin.

Basically, what I'm saying is this:

1. When could he have used it in the past? 2. When can he use it in the future, or should he? 3. Is it just me, or is it a good catchphrase when the unusual or shocking occurs?