Friday, July 25, 2008

Spectacular Spider-Man: The Hunger

This trade, written by the pretty good Paul Jenkins (Why doesn't he have a regular book anymore, hmm?) is also only pretty good. Basically the plot is Venom's symbiont suit is leaving Eddie Brock and wants to permanently join up with Spider-man as its host, but Spider-man is all like, that would not be something I would enjoy. Anyway, they fight blah blah, and it turns out (SPOILER) Eddie Brock is dying of cancer which is why the suit doesn't want him anymore. Anyway, now the Scorpion is Venom but that didn't happen here, it happened later in Mark Millar's Spider-man. On great thing about this book is art by the amazing and highly stylized Humberto Ramos, so I think he's taking over Runaways which should be great.

RATING: 45%

11 comments:

LoCo said...

It looks like in this issue, Spiderman finally meets Marvel's newest villain, Cat-Man. Or is it Man-Cat?

Bryan said...

Catman's a DC villain/hero.

Man-Cat, however, is fair game.

<- Nerd.

Anonymous said...

Suck on this one you geeks and losers!

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/790644/

Anonymous said...

Wait:

e: Suck on this one you geeks and losers! And pussies!

Anonymous said...

I haven't used html since middle school.

DCP said...

They didn't have html when I was in middle school, you whippersnapper.

Anonymous said...

History of HTML

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Origins

In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who was an independent contractor at CERN, proposed and prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems engineer Robert Cailliau each submitted separate proposals for an Internet-based hypertext system providing similar functionality. The following year, they collaborated on a joint proposal, the WorldWideWeb (W3) project,[1] which was accepted by CERN.

Anonymous said...

First specifications

The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called HTML Tags, first mentioned on the Internet by Berners-Lee in late 1991.[2][3] It describes 22 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of HTML. Thirteen of these elements still exist in HTML 4.[4]

Berners-Lee considered HTML to be, at the time, an application of SGML, but it was not formally defined as such until the mid-1993 publication, by the IETF, of the first proposal for an HTML specification: Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly's "Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)" Internet-Draft, which included an SGML Document Type Definition to define the grammar.[5] The draft expired after six months, but was notable for its acknowledgment of the NCSA Mosaic browser's custom tag for embedding in-line images, reflecting the IETF's philosophy of basing standards on successful prototypes.[6] Similarly, Dave Raggett's competing Internet-Draft, "HTML+ (Hypertext Markup Format)", from late 1993, suggested standardizing already-implemented features like tables and fill-out forms.[7]

After the HTML and HTML+ drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an HTML Working Group, which in 1995 completed "HTML 2.0", the first HTML specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future implementations should be based.[6] Published as Request for Comments 1996, HTML 2.0 included ideas from the HTML and HTML+ drafts.[8] There was no "HTML 1.0"; the 2.0 designation was intended to distinguish the new edition from previous drafts.[9]

Further development under the auspices of the IETF was stalled by competing interests. Since 1996, the HTML specifications have been maintained, with input from commercial software vendors, by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).[10] However, in 2000, HTML also became an international standard (ISO/IEC 15445:2000). The last HTML specification published by the W3C is the HTML 4.01 Recommendation, published in late 1999. Its issues and errors were last acknowledged by errata published in 2001.

Jacqui said...

Glad to finally know the history of html. Thanks Tom.

Anonymous said...

Just a little copypasta from our friends at Wikipedia!

laurie said...

That video was amazing.