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Titolo: REPOST: IT.DISCUSSIONI.LITIGI FAQ

And they can dance the can-can. Nyah.
Yes but can they can-can consistently?
Blitz the Cat
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My previous sig. file was nonexistent,
this prompted minou to post the following remark:
"...and it would be nice if whoever i am replying to
 would sign their bloody posts.  really now." 12/13/98
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Alright already!
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"Awwww, I got tea up my nose from laughing too hard."
Per 12/11/98

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newstands?  C'mon KIDS!  Why don't you read comics?!?  ---Alan
Actually I used to by lots of issues of MARVEL TALES at the newstands but I
think you missed Samy's point Alan.  Just beause Peter Parker was no longer
in high school when I started reading ASM didn't prevent me from becoming
interested in the character.  Just as, I would imagine, Peter's marriage
doesn't prevent newer readers from showing an initial interest in the
character.
I can even imagine a point in the very far future when Peter has given up
being Spider-Man and there is someone else filling the role (or maybe there
is a completely new cast of heroes).  A kid picks up the book (conveniently
located at a variety store by his house and priced as much as a candy-bar)
and goes "Wow, this character is neato!" and decides to buy the issue
because of the flashy costume the character is wearing.  Upon reading the
story the kid decides that he liked it so he goes to buy some more issues
about Super-Hero-Guy.  After reading all the issues he has collected the kid
has learned that Super-Hero-Guy has an old friend named Peter Parker (who
has a daughter named May dammit!) who used to be a costumed hero named
Spider-Man.  The kid thinks "I heard my dad talk about that Spider-Man guy
once - he musta been cool."
One day,  after getting frustrated with missing issues at the newsstand the
kid finally gets the courage to go to the big scary comic book store across
the street (populated by weird-looking and serious adults) where he saw a
picture of Super-Hero-Guy in the window.  Upon entering the kid is
overwhelmed with the sheer variety and size of the selection of comics on
the rack.  He decides to get some Super-Hero-Guy issues he missed at the
newsstand but before he leaves he notices rows and rows of bins at the back
of the store.  Deciding to flip through them he comes across a whole pile of
Spider-Man issues!!  Amazed that anyone still has some of these old issues
(and marveling at how funny and different the art looks) he decides to buy
an issue of Spider-Man which the copyright says was published in 1999
("that's 50 years ago"!).  The issue is a little beat up but he doesn't care
(all he wants is the story) so it doesn't cost him any more than a new
issue.
When he gets home the first thing that he reads is the old Spider-Man issue
he found.  He can't believe that at one time Peter Parker was actually
young!  And that once he thought that May was dead!  Wow this guy sure has
been through a lot!
Slowly over a period of months the young kid is indocrinated into comics
culture and he begins to get a firmer grasp on the vast scope of the Marvel
Universe.  For Christmas he asks he mother to buy him a book they had a the
comic store called AN ANNOTATED HISTORY OF THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN - UPDATED
FOR 2060.  His mother is a bit leary about the book (she's scared that young
Bobby is far to impressionable to be exposed to such violence an crudeness)
but eventually decides that anything that will get Bobby to read must be a
good thing so she concedes.  On Christmas morning 2061 Bobby finds the book
under the tree and immeadiately begins to read it.  His parents are amazed,
they can barely even get Bobby to unwrap his other presents ("Just socks
probably anyways" thinks Bobby) and they've never seen him so fixated on one
thing.
Over the next few days Bobby spends hours upon hours pouring over the
minutiae of the book learnig everything he can about the wonderful guy who
was Spider-Man.  He learns that Peter was once a nerdy high school student
(which he finds astounding considering how stoic and fatherly Peter is these
days), who lost his first love to his arch-enemy ("He loved someone else
before MJ - wow!"), who later got married, who was replaced by a clone who
thought he was the real Peter, who had a child, who became a senior photo
editor at the Daily Bugle (after JJJ's death to lung cancer) and who
eventually retired when he saw a new generation of heroes rising to protect
the world.  Bobby is astounded.  He can't believe what he just read.  A
story of such vast and epic scope but with such immense personal tragedy
scattered throughout.
And then it hits him.  A realisation that he can't believe he didn't have
earlier.  One so incredible that it opens up entirely new vistas of
possiblity and chance. If this could happen to Peter then it could happen to
Super-Hero-Guy to.  Maybe Super-Hero-Guy would end up marrying HIS
girlfriend one day, or maybe she would die, or maybe he'd meet someone new,
or maybe she'd turn into a villan, or a hero.  The possibilites were
endless.  Unlike the Biff Tough-Guy TV show that he watchs where nothing
ever changes the Marvel Universe is all about change - in the Marvel
Universe there is consequence!
Two days later Bobby gets up as early as his mother will let him.  Today is
a Wednesday and Bobby has learned over the past few months that this is the
day that new comics come out at the store.  Bobby knows that he has to be
the first one in the store because he just has to get the new issue of
Super-Hero-Guy (not to mention a few more Spidey back issues).   What if
somehting happens?  What if something in SHG's life changes?  It could
happen at any time; in any issue.  Bobby has determined that he will always
read Super-Hero-Guy from now on - how can a story get boring if it keeps on
changing, growing, progressing?  He can't believe that anyone was so smart
as to think of a world like this but he's glad they did (and Marvel
Mega-Corp has gained one more loyal fan)!
Mike Crampton - "I have a dream..."

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