Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character (pt.2: Spidey's Motto: "With Great power must also come Great responbitily", of 5)

How is it that we can recall something so easy of a good movie we love, a great book because of how it made us feel while reading it or a phrase that we all know so simply. Like for example: "Space the finial Frontier", Mr. McGee, Don't make me angry, you wouldn't like me if I get angry, or how about a favorite scene in a book that your reading. I remember reading a two part story back in the late nineties called Probe & Counter Probe here were a few scenes I recall from both story & won't ever forget. In Probe Just after she's found & taken to a hospital by two cops she protects herself from them when they come to ask her questions by psychic throwing them both out of her room through the window. Later when she and an doctor are on the run he asks her can she change her appearance she show him she can by growing a beard in a matter of moments of his asking. In Counter probe when another probe is again examined she makes the said Doctor pay with someway that's NOT printable I'll let you the reader decide, what that can be unless you want read the books.
Well when Stan Lee wrote the Amazing Spider man's Origin he put a very powerful sense of truth in the message of a high school book worm that got powers of a spider after being bitten by a radioactive arachnid then let a crook get away when he had a chance to stop him. Later this same crook shoots his beloved uncle Ben dead, he checks to make sure his aunt okay at their neighbor's house, her name is Anna Watson & yes her niece Mary Jane is with her and sees an enraged young boy go after his uncle's murder. Peter chases him to an abandoned warehouse catches the crook only to realize that he could have prevented his uncle's death if he would have taken action any kind of action just a few days earlier. So Peter Parker learned that "With Great power, comes Great Responsibility", so the character of Spidey is driven by his own guilt to do what is right even if he can't.
When Stan Lee wrote Spidey's origin I wonder if he did or didn't probably know how profoundly his new character was going to change comic book readers view of respect not only for themselves but for others as well. When Spider man was created back in 1962 Stan put his story in a magazine that Marvel comics was going to ax anyway named Amazing Fantasy # 15, he wanted to quit the comic book writing biz. He and a relative were at odds about releasing a character with the name of Spider man then nine moths later back then it took time to get responses on a comic book's sales back to the company. That same relative that was at odds with Stan had completely changed his tune, & told Stan to write Spidey as a monthly book, so behold then a legend was born. Peter Parker is everyone in a way, can we always pay the bills on time?, can we be where we are needed most in times of helping others? Who doesn't have an ailing relative that they want to help no matter what the cost, because they love that person?, Peter knows he will always have a chance to help others that need his help but rather than always knowing if he's respected or despised he'll never truly know. The best way for him to do this is putting on his ol' Red & Blue costume & have fun while knowing he'll never forget "With Great Power, comes Great Responsibility" for he knows what happens very personally if he does... a quick question to you the reader do you sometimes feel like a Peter Parker because I know from time to time I Matt know I do?.......To be continued in Why do I love Spiderman over any other comicbook character (pt.3: Spidey's wedding to Mary Jane) of 5

Remebering 9/11

On this morning of 9/11/2001, I was getting ready for work listening to Dee Jay Rick Dee while showering at 5:30 am. At 6:39 the show was turned toward what was happening in New York at that moment when a plane crashed into one of the towers it was chaos beyond anything I'd heard so I knew this was really happening. It was NOT an Emergency broadcast at all like they run from time to time on the radio.When I was going to work on the bus I was talking to other passengers & the driver, it was a day when everyone was wanting to speak about what was happening and why shouldn't they What was happening was affecting them/us to our very core. Should we ever forget these heroic acts of the heroes that were everyday heroes. I know we can't forget so why do we want to forget as a nation why 9/11 happen I ask you?
What I'm asking is why are so many people like 9/11 didn't happen seven years later? Don't they remember all the fear they felt upon hearing what had happen that morning, do they care, I know they do. So what I want to know is why can't we all take a moment of today just to remember 9/11 wasn't just about an attack on America but was God's way of reminding us selfish humans one day our time will come to be with Him, so be ready. What I just wrote was part of a song that was like a famous Christmas song right now I don't recall the name of. Please if you read this think of all of those you know in your life & those you've never met at all & maybe just maybe remember you can share how you felt on 9/11/01, but also please remember to share your praise with whoever your with by giving every fellow American a hug to let them know they are loved.

Why do I love Spider-man over any other comicbook character ( pt.1: Spidey & Me of 5)

How is it that I Matt can like/love one comic book character over all others?, Well here's why I that I feel comfortable sharing. I grew up with Peter Parker, that's Spider man for those of you who don't who he is? the character is really 10 years older than me but to me that doesn't matter I still love him more than ANY comic book character. I mean sure don't get me wrong I like all comic books & their characters. It's that Superman, Hulk, Batman, Spawn, & all the rest still can't in their own way affect as Spidey did/does. I was first introduced to the Spiderman character in in 1976, through a coloring book as I've talked in another one of my blogs. When I was living in Georgia in between living in Highpoint North Carolina & Washington state we were going to see my mother's brother Norman & his family in Savannah Georgia we stopped at a K-Mart all the kids on that trip got to choose something to keep them entertained while there visiting. One other memory I have from that said trip was riding with my cousin Brad he was 14 or 15 at the time on his motorcycle in their backyard. I then can remember a in '79 when we living in Washington state & visiting in Georgia there was a new mall opening there & they had pics with you know who? while my sister was afraid of you know who I let him take me & Choke hold his unbeknowtest fan for a Polaroid photo. Two or three years went by without me not knowing spidey in very small ways I remember playing with the Mego Spider-man toys in '81 with the girls across the street, (their mother I think or maybe it was me that picked up Amazing Spider-man the comicbook when I went shopping with them once). I remember watching "Spider-Man & his amazing friends" back then too. I'd known a small bit about the newspaper comic strip when it ran in Seattle. I even remember the very short lived Live Action Spider-man with Nicholas Hammond & yes also I watched Spidey on the Electric Company as well. I even recall having a gaint black & white reproduced comic panel of Spidey vs the Fantastic Four's main villain DR. Doom to color when I was in the third grade. I know that in 1985 just after my mother had remarried I saw at PAY N" SAVE a Spider-man secret wars action figure this was the first time I seen him in the New Black & white suit, that would be very important in the story years laters. We then moved to Maryland & then & then I had really gone into a Spider Man overload . I started collecting comics later that year, but not right away with the wall crawler,one of spidey's many nicknames by the way. I think what drew me back to Spidey as a comic book collector was that in the Newspaper strip he was going to get Married to his girl Mary Jane Watson.

LOST as you are I guess we'll have to wait and see..

Hey LOST fans,
I'd like to tell you all about a little show called LOST,well really it's a BIG show in many ways. It was created by J.J. Abrams (he created another show before this called ALIAS, which stared Jennifer Graner as Sydney Bristow, which I will blog about soon). Lost is the story of these people stranded on an island after their plane crashes on it's way back from Sydney Australia to Los Angeles in the states, What's really neat about the show is that yes I believe that the Island itself is a character like the car of the Dukes of Hazzards show I'd hope you all know that car's name by now. But to prove my point about the Island isn't it weird how it gives some people a Chance at Redemption & still "others" it punishes for what they have done to it. The show will soon be starting it's 5th season now I know many of you want to know when that starts right?, Well it's a secert no more I found out late on the Internet on 9-3-08 it will premier on January 1st,2009 and the title of the episode is "Because you left" I wonder how that came about? don't you? Well I will have a lot more Lost story points coming soon ah before I go I also found out the DVD release of season 4 will be on December 9th, 2008 as you can see I also included a photo of the DVD box set.

Heroes, (no I don't mean theTelevison show at all)

Hey all,
I have a question for everyone who checks out this Blog, & I'd like for you to be honest with your answer please? Whose your hero in life your mom& dad or brother or sister, I'm sure the answers will be endless to this, But I'd just like to know if people are reading this or not because I do have a lot to say & that's a fact. Now you the reader of this may think I'm silly or not I don't know but here are my heroes in spirit, life, & in fiction. My own heroes are Ben Powers in both his life & his spirit, this was my mother's father he showed me a great deal in life to take things as they are at face value but keep reminding myself you can always have room for improvement as long as you follow your heart. I still remember when he was always very funny with me more times than not with his stories & joking, But I will as well always remember when he was dead honest with me just as much. ( I still remember our last conversation together, It was when he & my Grandma Evelin were here in the spring time of 1999 during Easter he & I were out in the backyard of my folks place talking about personal relationships about women, he surprised me by bringing God into the conversation & had reassured me that God will help me in my time of need, for God loves me very much & God wants me happy with the lady he wants me to be because of that very same type of love. God Himself is also one of my heroes as well because of his love for all of us as fault filled humans he knows we should understand what love is? A lot people don't know that love is what our true purpose is on this planet we call Earth. Knowing that Jesus his son shows us the way is just as equity needed to always be known as well. Now on to fictional heroes here, I have just as many that as I do at the upper two parts of this blog that I like, admire & respect, but the one I love the most is Spider Man. I still remember my first introduction to this Character. It wasn't any comic book by any means or a toy, it was a simple coloring book. Why do I love Spider Man as a hero you may ask right?, Well the very reason I love Spidey, is because when Stan Lee created him he made him the Every man relate able to everyone. (Hey I could talk about my political views here but I won't at least not now). I do love all comics actually, But I've also have a beef with Marvel Comics who makes the Spider Man storyline right now ( I will have a blog about this you can be assured). Heroes are many things I know to many different people. I hope that with this blog I have gotten you to see why it's important to think about not only why you or I have a need for heroes, but also remember that also all of our heroes regraudless of if we live with them in life or in spirit or if they are fictional we can always relate to them, Why or how you may ask?, Simple they are us.

A small bit of history of the real Yamato

Hey how's everyone,
This is connected to A little show called Star Blazers an ongoing saga.... How many people know about Japanese war history, Well one part I knew a lot about was of course their bringing America into W.W. II with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec.7 1941, & how we ended the war by bombing them in August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima & Nagasaki three days later. I know a lot about world war II besides Japan's part but, that's what I want talk about here. When I was in my last year of junior high slash starting my first year of high school we were living on the east coast, I met a woman in a toy store who had on a white T-shirt that had the ship from Star Blazers on it, I ran & found my mom we talked for about a half hour about Star Blazers we exchanged information to come to find out she knew a huge lot about the original stuff from Japan & that she had been visiting there from time to time. She let me make copies of her Yamato/Star Blazers videos (boy doesn't that sound old school, by today's standards).

Anyway this is about the real battleship Yamato not fictional right now, so I'd go to the library back then & go to the history selection to find out what I could about that ship called the Yamato some of the stuff I short of knew but it wasn't much. Then my folks found the coolest book ever on great battleships and gave to me as a Christmas present because it had a selection on the Yamato in it. I found out that when it was sunk on April 7,1945 at 14:25 p.m. (That's 2:25 in civilian or standard time meaning not related to military). It was said to have had 16 inch guns on it's front when in relatively it had 18 inch guns on it's front, but newspapers in the USA didn't know of the latter till after she was destroyed. She and her sister ship were both given only enough fuel for a one way trip , but her fueling crews had put in enough for her to return. She was attack by American bomber planes. I myself found out when finding these pictures here on the internet that her construction was started in 1937, Also that one the crew members that survived wrote a book of their own account of the Real Yamato's missions & now that I know of it, I hope that I can find a English copy of that book which may be impossible I know but it would be nice to add to my Yamato collection regardless of what language it would be in.

A little show called STAR BLAZERS a ongoing saga...

Hello everyone,
I would like to let you all know that this entry is very special to my heart for it really does take me back to a time when I first got to know science fiction for what it was meant to be & still I know why I love the genre as I do even today. Back in 1979 I was a little guy that one day I was watching the 700 club with Pat Robertson , (who tried in 2000 to run for president) this was a weekly evangelism program that ran from 5 am to 7am on KSTW channel 11 then I remember at 7:30 a show called STAR BLAZERS it was only a half hour long but it was the story that drew me in. The year is 2199 and the whole planet has one whole year left to support human life. Why? because a alien race known as the Gamilons are hurling radio active planet bombs to earth while fighting a losing battle near Pluto they see a shooting star or space ship heading towards Mars, when the crash site is investigated by Derek Wildstar & Mark Venture they find a dead girl that was delivering a message of hope to planet earth, from the planet Iscandar which is 148,000 light years from earth so they pull a world war II battleship from the seabed of earth's oceans called the Yamato, which they add a special engine to it called the wave motion engine & to the front of the ship a gun simply called the wave motion gun these plans were included in the message from Iscandar. They rechristen the name of the ship to Argo, (note this was so they could edit out the Japanese history for American audiences), with of course one year left they set off for Iscandar to retrieve a device called the Cosmo DNA. With the Gamilons trying stop them at all cost any way that they can. Please note this blog will be on going....