Damn, man. That shit is foul. Probably easier to draw than the old costume, and definitely embodying everything that sucks about Marvel in one over-inked splash. My face, it hurts. My inner fanboy, it wishes Ellis* would get the fuck off of the Hero boat and do some more Transmetropolitanesque work.

12:20 < mdxi> looks like he's got some pretty bad rickets there
12:20 < solios> yeah.
12:21 < solios> McFarlane's anti-anatomy totally killed spiderman**. Since then everyone feels compelled to [make spiderman some sort of rubberized ball of skeleton-free muscle].
12:22 < mdxi> also, i just noticed the big hook coming out of his butt
12:34 < solios> yeah, that's some creepy shit.
12:34 < solios> it's too Doc Oc for my liking, honestly.
12:34 < solios> it's like someone was all DOOD LETS REDESIGN DOC OC MAKE HIM LESS OF A FATASS AND PAINT HIM UP LIKE IRON MAN and someone said "hey, that rocks."
12:39 <@bda> When they should have said 'lol u nub fag'.

Image ripped from Newsarama, which contains, in one convenient index page, an excellent list of reasons why I stopped hurting myself with superhero shit after reading Watchmen.

< Devi0us> wow. at a quick glance, that pinky is misleading

And there's that.

* Ellis has nothing to do with this rant other than the fact that the last time I bothered to check he was writing Iron Man. This is especially annoying to me for a large number of reasons I'll hopefully never bother to get into here. The realization that people like Ellis and Gaiman and Moore actually need money to live - and that they'll do things like a run on Iron Man or 1602 or Tom Strong in order to eat and make mortgage payments is one of the reasons I still have a day job.

** Sales-wise, it made McFarlane and made Spiderman incredibly popular for awhile. It's the McFarlane-imitation that kills it for me, among other things.