Aunt May is Sexy as Hell
I caught the two-episode premiere of the new Spectacular Spider-man cartoon on Kids WB this past Saturday morning, while eating a bowl of Cocoa Pebbles and hearing my wife mutter about how she married a six-year-old. I’m ambivalent to report that the cartoon is good enough; the voices are good, the action well animated, and nothing terribly stupid about. The first episode had the Vulture as the villain (voiced by Freddy Krueger’s Robert Englund) and the second episode starred Electro, whose ridiculous mask had been replaced with a more realistic head made entirely out of electricity (relatively speaking). But what most struck me was Aunt May, who is an EAILF (EA standing for Elderly Aunt). Seriously, check it:
And here’s a grim reminder of what Aunt May looks like in the comics.
I’ll take the Spectacular version, please. Actually, Aunt May and the villains are pretty well designed; it’s the other humans who need a little help, mostly in the noses. Check Peter Parker’s schnozz:
It’s a little bootie!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.