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Spider-Man Lookalike Lizard Is Latest Exotic Pet Craze A lizard that looks startlingly like Spider-Man - Mwanza flat-headed rock agama - has become the latest fashionable pet. [Pic in URL] By Tom Chivers 21 Sep 2009 The vivid red-and-blue colouring is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up. Agamas like the Spider-Lizard, as it has become known make good pets, as they become tame and docile if handled regularly. However, they require specialist equipment in the UK to maintain their temperature. It can grow...

The vivid red-and-blue colouring is almost uncannily like that of the Marvel superhero, and comic book fans have been flocking to exotic pet shops to snap them up. Agamas like the Spider-Lizard, as it has become known make good pets, as they become tame and docile if handled regularly. However, they require specialist equipment in the UK to maintain their temperature. It can grow up to a foot long, and the squeamish may find it a problem to feed – a balanced diet for an agama includes locusts, crickets, mealworms and waxworms. [ssnip]

Bono and The Edge have described their forthcoming Spider-Man musical as "dizzy" and "not a straight take on the myth". Turn Off The Dark, the production the Dublin band has written music and lyrics for, is set to open on Broadway in New York in 2010. They also confirmed American actress Evan Rachel Wood would play the part of MJ and revealed more about the other characters. ...Bono said: "We've got a new villain, it's a girl. It's a very extraordinary role. We've taken it to a much more dizzy place than you'd expect. We've got big tunes. We're very...

A young British actress has hanged herself in her Paris flat just two days before her 29th birthday, it emerged today. The body of Oxford-born Lucy Gordon, who had starred in number of big budget Hollywood films including Spider-Man 3, was found suspended from the ceiling of her mansion block apartment. Police made the grisly discovery after entering the flat close to the River Seine on Wednesday morning. ‘It was a horrific scene,’ said one. ‘The young woman had taken her own life in terrible circumstances. We are not seeking anyone else. It was a clear case of suicide.’ Miss...

A Thai fireman turned superhero when he dressed up as comic-book character Spider-Man to coax a frightened eight-year-old from a balcony, police said Tuesday. Teachers at a special needs school in Bangkok alerted authorities on Monday when an autistic pupil, scared of attending his first day at school, sat out on the third-floor ledge and refused to come inside, a police sergeant told AFP.

During times of great challenge and difficulty, people look for a hero, whether that hero be within themselves or without.. Most of us, being human, look outside to the storytellers and the mythmakers for our inspiration. The storytellers and mythmakers among us, using image, sound and language, are able to articulate the human condition and therefore ourselves. Ancient Greece during the 5th century, a time of war, disease and famine, saw the Golden Age of theater, philosophy, sculpture, political rhetoric and oratory. Art is and always will be a beautiful flower in the ugliest of times.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barack Obama will be "nerd-in-chief" when he takes office as U.S. president this month, according to Marvel Comics, which is putting him on the cover of its next "Spider-Man" comic.

Once, comic books were against Nazis and Hitler and were very up front in supporting America's fight against them. But those days are over. Both DC and Marvel Comics long ago embraced left-wing politics, and when it came to the war on terror, they were for the most part silent. Fighting "global warming" and on behalf of other mythical left-wing creations was far more important (as was transforming Wonder Woman into an ugly, steroidal man). Now, though, comic books are back to supporting the President, since he embodies their far-left ideology. Yup, Spider-Man is in the tank for Obama and...

With a comic book aficionado about to be sworn in as the president of the United States, it’s no surprise that comic book makers are eager to capitalize on their new inside-in-the-beltway connection. But is it true that comic books are now turning partisan? It’s been all over the news this week that Marvel Comics is planning a special issue Jan. 14 , 2009, issue of Amazing Spider-Man #583 with Obama on the cover. Inside are five pages of Obama-Spider-Man escapades, as Spider-Man stops the Chameleon from spoiling Obama’s swearing-in....“Even Comic Books Crawling with Pro-Obama Bias?,” asks Ken Shepherd at...

The rockstar status of our president in waiting continues to blast into new and disturbing areas of our pop culture. Barack Hussein Obama is being unleashed in the cartoon universe. In the latest edition of Marvel's Spiderman comic book series, Barack Obama shows up out of nowhere, with no past or history inside the series at all, similar to how he appeared on the scene in American politics in 2004.

According to press reports, President-elect Barack Obama's favorite superheroes are Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian. But what do these picks say about Mr. Obama? Madeleine Brand talks to Gabriel Fowler, owner of indie comic book store Desert Island, about what the superheroes reveal about the next president.

Two more "Spider-Man" films on the way By Leslie Simmons Sat Sep 6, 11:14 PM ET LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Tobey Maguire and "Spider-Man" director Sam Raimi plan to reunite for the fourth and fifth installments of Columia Pictures' comic book franchise, dispelling speculation that a new actor would play the crime-fighter. "The studio never considered any other actor. Tobey was our only choice and the only person we've discussed the role with," said studio spokesman Steve Elzer. In hopes of containing costs, Columbia is considering shooting the films back-to-back starting in fall 2009, much like New Line did...

Ok, so as some of you know, the bootleg dvds in China have "regular" packaging, often just like the real things. I pick up the Spiderman bootleg dvd and here's the English description on the back: "Even as Scully's genetically altered DNA brings her closer to the brink of death, government agent Michael Kritschgau helps Mulder in the search for a cure, partly to atone for his own involvement with perpetuating the alien hoax. Scully's DNA comes into play once again when she discovers she is the mother of a little girl named Emily, an incident that could only be...

Spiderman in Tehran 25/07/2008 By Amir Taheri "A picture is worth a thousand words!" This is the proverb invented by an American photographer in the 1920s but ascribed to the Chinese for good effect. While not always true, like all other proverbs, it is surprisingly accurate on some occasions. No picture could replace a thousand words by Neffari or Roumi. But no number of words could replace the 1990 photo of an Afghan teenage girl with terror in her green eyes, reflecting two decades of war and famine. Sometimes, however, words are needed to reveal the hidden meanings of a...

KAPOW! The new Batman movie "The Dark Knight" smashed the weekend record set by "Spider-Man 3" last year, selling an estimated $155.3 million worth of tickets during its first three days of release across the United States and Canada, distributor Warner Bros. Pictures said on Sunday. The hotly anticipated film, co-starring late actor Heath Ledger as the anarchic Joker, surpassed the $151.1 million haul for "Spider-Man 3" during its first weekend in May 2007.

Depositions have already begun in this titanic battle. It is a $5 billion lawsuit and will likely be in a New York courtroom next year. There are real issues to the ownership rights of Stan Lee's characters, including Spider Man, Ironman, X-Men, Incredible Hulk, etc. HERE IS THE YOUTUBE TO EXPLAIN THOSE ISSUES

Times climb - again! Man scales paper's headquarters to protest Al Qaeda BY WIL CRUZ and JILL COFFEY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Updated Wednesday, July 9th 2008, 4:34 AM Taggart for NewsDavid Malone keeps climbing after hanging a banner on the Times building early Wednesday morning. Another climber with a cause has gone up the side of The New York Times Building in midtown.But unlike the two men who made it to the top of the 52-story structure June 5, David Malone only made it to about the 11th floor early this morning.Malone called the Daily News and acknowledged...

Marvel, Spider Man, Stan Lee and the Wrath of Peter Paul Marvel Faces Wrath of Peter Paul Baron’s feature story June 28, “The Rage Offstage At Marvel” written by its senior editor William “Wild Bill” Alpert, starts off saying, “THE COMIC BOOK’S SPLASH page would show a close-up of Peter F. Paul brooding about Marvel Entertainment, its creative force Stan Lee and the Clintons.” With that comic book flair, Baron’s reluctantly accepted the bona fides of the historic law suit filed by Stan Lee Media in 2007 against Marvel Entertainment for 50% of the copyright profits from Spider Man, The...

NOTE: for the record, I hold a considerable number of shares in Stan Lee Media and have a very keen interest in the $5 billion lawsuit against Marvel. My friend, Peter Paul, has been blamed for the collapse of the company. Although he was guilty of a 10b5 violation for trying to keep the price of the stock propped up, I hope that he will someday be vindicated. I believe he was an easy fall guy in this mess. Although it ran out of cash and filed bankruptcy, SLM had an asset worth tens of millions of dollars ---- Stan...

The Rage Offstage at Marvel By BILL ALPERT Lawsuits against Marvel, Lee and Bill and Hillary are pressing Paul's claims that a dot-com he started with Stan Lee in 1998 was undone by the actions of the former president, short-sellers and Stan Lee himself. In a Manhattan federal district court, some of Paul's associates argue that the bankrupt dot-com, Stan Lee Media, still owns rights to Marvel characters like Spider-Man and The X-Men. On behalf of the former dot-com, they want half the profits that Marvel (ticker: MVL) is piling up, now that it's producing its own films like the...

STAN LEE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT #1 - TRANSFER OF ASSETS CAVEAT: As a shareholder of a large number of shares of Stan Lee Media, I am involved in the legal proceedings of Stan Lee Media and have a financial interest in a lawsuit against Marvel. Although the financial reporters have failed to investigate the story, Marvel has been sued for $5 billion by the reconstituted Stan Lee Media. BACKGROUND: In November 2006, after almost six years, the bankruptcy of Stan Lee Media was dismissed for cause. After meeting with Peter Paul over three years ago to begin work on the...

  Gecko lizards inspire 'Spiderman gloves' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor  Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 23/01/2008       Prototype "Spiderman gloves" that will enable window cleaners to scale walls, robots to scurry across ceilings and rock climbers to hang about could be ready within three years.There has been popular interest in how to mimic his extraordinary wall climbing ability since 1962, when the web-slinging hero with superhuman strength was born in the pages of Marvel Comics.   'Spiderman gloves' could be ready within three years Shy, nerdy Peter Parker managed the feat after being bitten by a radioactive spider on...

Those who know Spider-Man only from Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in the movies might be surprised to learn that in the comic book, the web-spinning hero has been married for almost 21 years. That's why the comic world is in an uproar over Marvel Comics' decision to undo the marriage of Peter Parker and red-haired bombshell Mary Jane Watson, reversing two decades of storytelling. In Amazing Spider-Man #545 last week, Peter and Mary Jane make a tearful deal with the devil-like character Mephisto: In exchange for saving Aunt May's life, Mephisto erases all traces of the Peter-Mary Jane marriage...

When critics attack the United Nations, they often accuse the world body of being a web of bureaucracy. Now officials there are hoping to turn that image around by using the web of Spiderman. The UN recently announced a union with the comic book company, Marvel. Together, they aim to print a special comic that will see the superhero fight alongside UN aid workers and peacekeepers. Marvel scribes have offered to pen the work for free. The UN is now seeking private backing so it can distribute 1m free copies to American schoolchildren. The project's creator, the French producer...

He has fought against foes ranging from the Green Goblin to Doctor Octopus, but Spider-Man now faces an even more formidable challenge: improving the battered image of the United Nations. In a move reminiscent of storylines developed during the second world war, the UN is joining forces with Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, to create a comic book showing the international body working with superheroes to solve bloody conflicts and rid the world of disease. The comic, initially to be distributed free to 1m US schoolchildren, will be set in a war-torn fictional country and feature...

U2 has two big projects for the coming year — a new album and a Broadway musical of "Spider-Man" directed by "The Lion King" guru Julie Taymor. At last week’s Broadway premiere of "Young Frankenstein," sharp-eyed observers noticed U2’s own guru, manager Paul McGuiness, scoping out the Hilton Theater on 42nd Street with an eye toward putting "Spider-Man" in there. The show requires a very high ceiling stage for all the flying that will go on. Alas, McGuiness is said to have commented, "I guess we’re out of luck" when he saw how successful "Young Frankenstein" is going to be.

CLICK TO WATCH - HILLARY WILL NOT RETURN THIS 100K...IT IS CLEARLY ILLEGAL, AND SHE HAS BEEN PROVIDED WITH WRITTEN DEMAND The YouTube above is from the sworn deposition of Spiderman Stan Lee. He admits to illegally exchanging checks. That is an illegal donation and a felony admitted on tape. In a real shocker (gag alert), the Bush Justice Department has refused to do anything about it. Below are various clips in the news from official spokesweasel, Howard Wolfson. Wolfson is the guy who vowed to the Washington Post on Aug. 15, 2000, that her campaign would not take...

FReepers, this is the SECOND in a series of facsimile transmission to the office of Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. I am hoping she will take the opportunity to clear up some questions and give us her side of the story. Any response from her will be published here. No. 1 - Lying Howard Wolfson

SOURCE FOR DOCUMENTS AND THE ENTIRE SORDID SCANDAL EQUAL JUSTICE FOUNDATION SITE WITH DOCUMENTARY TRAILER STAN LEE'S SWORN DEPOSITION ON VIDEO - he admits "exchanging" $100,000 checks Dateline: Los Angeles Sept. 10, 2007 FreeRepublic.com by Doug from Upland While reporters have been aggressively pursuing the illegal activity of Norman Hsu and his large campaign donations to Democrats, including presidential candidate Senator Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, they have been less agressive in pursing a case that is right out there in front of their eyes in broad daylight. All they have to do is look at a video. Senator Clinton...

NOTE: I reported on this a few months ago but have not seen anything in major media. You would think a $5 billion lawsuit against Marvel over ownership rights of Spider Man, X-Men, and other creations of Stan Lee might make news. In addition, there is a lawsuit in Los Angeles Federal District Court alleging Stan Lee with bankruptcy fraud. James Nesfield, the mother of all whistleblowers on Wall Street, reorganized Stan Lee Media after its bankruptcy dismissal and asserted its claims. One month before Lee signed a contract with Marvel, he has assigned the same rights to Stan Lee...

A famous urban climber Alain Robert, aka Spiderman, who has “conquered” the Eiffel’s Tower, Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and Empire State Building, is coming to Moscow to climb the highest building in Europe – the Federation Tower.

WASHINGTON – Endowed with superhuman strength, yet looking different as day and night, the Amazing Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk will stand shoulder-to-shoulder as the Postal Service launches its latest set of super hero stamps. The 20-stamp set premieres Thursday at Comic-Con, the comic book and pop culture show in San Diego. The 41-cent stamps honor the creations of Marvel Comics, and also include Sub-Mariner, The Thing, Captain America, the Silver Surfer, the Spider-Woman, the Invincible Iron Man, Elektra and Wolverine. In addition, 10 of the stamps highlight covers of comic books featuring the characters. Stan Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man,...

NOTE: this is an incredible story. Shining the light on this bankruptcy case will shine more light on the Clintons. The case was filed today at 5pm in Federal District Court in Los Angeles. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Spider Man Creator Stan Lee and POW! Entertainment (POWN) Sued by Stan Lee Media for Illegalities In Bankruptcy Transfers Federal Lawsuit filed Monday by Stan Lee Media in Los Angeles Details Frauds by SpiderMan Creator Lee in Taking Assets from Bankruptcy Estate to Launch New Public Company Owned and Operated by Lee and SLM Insiders LOS ANGELES July 9, 2007 -- The company that was...

MARY JANE IS SPIDEY 'SENSUOUS' By NEIL GRAVES WHAT A DOLL: A sexy new statuette of Spider-Man's girlfriend, Mary Jane, soon to be released by Marvel, has some fans on the Web outraged. May 16, 2007 -- Say, doesn't that comely babe - barefoot, buxom and scrubbing some laundry - look familiar? Why, it's Spider-Man's better half, Mary Jane, and, wow, are the Webbed Wonder's fans steamed over this one. Bloggers are scorching their keyboards, claiming that a statuette of Mary Jane, based on artist Adam Hughes' notion of a fantasy femme, is an eyeful of outrage. Sporting sexy cleavage...

Spider-Man caught just about everyone in his web. The super hero's latest adventure, "Spider-Man 3," smashed box-office records with $148 million (€109.14 million) in its first three days, according to studio estimates Sunday. That put it ahead of the previous record debut of $135.6 million (€99.99 million) set last summer by "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest." With $59.3 million (€43.73 million) on opening day Friday, Sony's "Spider-Man 3" broke the single-day box-office record, also held by "Dead Man's Chest" with $55.8 million (€41.15 million) in its first day. Since it began rolling out overseas on Tuesday, "Spider-Man 3"...

As a long time Marvel fan from the Golden Age of Comics I can heartly recommend Spiderman III to dedicated and non-dedicated Webslingers everywhere. Go out and catch this movie!

Spider-Man 3" begins with Spider-Man, a.k.a. Peter Parker, surveying the crime-free paradise he has created in the big city. Not only do criminals fear him, but the public finally sees him as the hero he wants to be. To top it all off, Peter is about to propose to the girl of his dreams, Mary Jane Watson, aka M.J. There's trouble in paradise, however. Peter is getting a big head from all the public adulation, and he is not able to properly comfort M.J. when she gets a bad review after her opening night on Broadway. Meanwhile, a new, cocky...

An Italian researcher is working on a project that could lead to the development of a real-life 'spider-man' suit. Nicola Pugno, a 35-year-old researcher at the Polytechnic University of Turin, says he has spent the past 10 years working on a form of adhesion based on the feet of gecko lizards. "It's a field that can have very interesting applications in science, like in space, for example," Mr Pugno said. "An astronaut could use a suit with a suction-cup adhesion system." He estimates the suit could be constructed in another 10 years.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's infamous movie pirates have done it again -- "Spider-Man 3" is already being sold on Beijing's streets almost two weeks ahead of its U.S. premier. Costing just over $1 apiece, the pirated DVDs appear to be of the actual movie, complete with a picture of the hero in a new, black spider suit which he wears for some of the film. There is even a warning on the back, printed in Chinese, against pirating the product. But put the one bought on Tuesday in the machine, and it does not work -- a common problem with...

A NewsBusters reader alerted me a few minutes ago to London Times film critic Leo Lewis and how he threw in a complaint about the American flag's brief cameo in "Spider-Man 3." The superhero sequel is set for wide release in the United States on May 4, Lewis filed his review from Tokyo. Lewis liked the film overall (3 out of 5 stars) but was disappointed that the evil alter-ego that inhabits Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) in the film is "still hopelessly mild-mannered." Of course, unlike say "Grindhouse," "Spider-Man" is intended for a wide audience from fathers and sons to...

Well, here we go again. Another Eurotrash, elitist whining that there is a US flag in an American movie... Ending an inconsequential review of the upcoming movie Spider-Man 3, Timesonline reviewer Leo Lewis complains: Also disappointing is the inability of the director, Sam Raimi, to end the romp without a fleeting shot of the American flag. The Stars and Stripes just happens to be fluttering behind Spidey as he makes his triumphal return to honour, probity and good honest fist-fighting. Lewis acts as if an American movie based on an American icon of the American comic book industry must somehow...

ISRAELI researchers are looking into whether spider venom could help cure impotency after men bitten by arachnids experienced prolonged erection, a newspaper reported today. The research was launched after observations that some men bitten by spiders "suffered from prolonged erections," the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot daily said.

In the first three fraudulent reports to the FEC for her 2000 Senate campaign, Hillary reported that Stan Lee had given a $100,000 check. In a Dec. 2005 CONCILIATION AGREEMENT, treasurer Andrew Grossman admitted the failure to report $721K. The campaign was fined $35K and the FEC ordered a fourth amended report. Suddenly, the $100,000 has magically disappeared from the report. Nevertheless, Hillary still claimed that Stan Lee gave $225,000 in-kind. She knows that is not true. She knows that he has testified to the contrary. WORLD NET DAILY ARTICLE THAT REFERENCES MY PHONE DISCUSSION WITH LEE IN APRIL 2006....

Stan Lee Media Sues Marvel: $5B Back-from-the-dead dot-com files suit claiming ownership of superheroes. March 15, 2007 By Michael Cohn Stan Lee Media sued Marvel Entertainment for $5 billion Thursday, claiming it co-owns Marvel’s superhero characters, including Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk. The company is no longer owned by Stan Lee, the comic book legend who more recently hosted the TV series Who Wants to Be a Superhero? on the Sci-Fi Channel, which was produced by his latest company, Pow Entertainment In the suit, filed in the Southern District of New York, Stan Lee Media seeks to assert rights...

PREVIOUS REPORT ON FR - PHONE CONVERSATION WITH STAN LEE SPIDERMAN TESTIMONY SHOWS THAT HILLARY IS LYING - SEE IT ON YOUTUBE Hillary Clinton has filed four fraudulent FEC reports regarding her 2000 senate campaign. The most recent is January 2006. The mainstream media has been given the information. Why won't they report it? If you have the opportunity, please send the video to journalists. Perhaps someone in the mainstream will finally come to the party, albeit kicking and screaming. Thanks.

"Spider-Man 3" isn't due until next summer, but about 5,000 fans got an early look at the film Saturday at Comic-Con, the country's largest comic book convention. Director Sam Raimi, producer Laura Ziskin and key members of the cast _ Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard and Thomas Haden Church _ came to the San Diego Convention Center to answer fan questions and unveil never-before-seen, unfinished footage of the much-anticipated movie. So is this the final installment of the franchise? "There will be some conclusions, though I wouldn't say it's necessarily the end," said Maguire, whose words...

Its finally out!!

NEW YORK (AFP) - For a comic book hero, it's the ultimate taboo. In the latest edition of the Marvel comic "Civil War" on sale, Spiderman does the unthinkable and removes his Spidey mask to publicly reveal his hidden identity. "I'm proud of who I am, and I'm here right now to prove it," the legendary webslinger tells a press conference called in New York's Times Square, before pulling off his mask and standing before the massed ranks of reporters as newspaper photographer Peter Parker. "Any questions?" Parker asks in the final panel of the issue, amid a barrage of...

NEW YORK (AFP) - For a comic book hero, it's the ultimate taboo. ADVERTISEMENT In the latest edition of the Marvel comic "Civil War" on sale, Spiderman does the unthinkable and removes his Spidey mask to publicly reveal his hidden identity. "I'm proud of who I am, and I'm here right now to prove it," the legendary webslinger tells a press conference called in New York's Times Square, before pulling off his mask and standing before the massed ranks of reporters as newspaper photographer Peter Parker. "Any questions?" Parker asks in the final panel of the issue, amid a barrage...

Spider-Man's identity is about to become not-so-secret. "My name is Peter Parker and I've been Spider-Man since I was 15 years old. Any questions?" the web wonder proclaims at a Times Square press conference in the comic "Civil War" No. 2, on sale today.