So, I’ll just be here waiting for that Secret Wars movie. Hope it comes soon.

I think that’s true to an extent, grave-wounds. You can’t give up good story in order to be true to the comics, but most comics have good story, so that’s not too much of a worry. I think Eddie Brock was following Spider-Man to the church for a story when the symbiote fell, if I remember right. But the symbiote’s origins were far more complicated in the comics than a simple meteor – it actually was found in the Secret Wars, when Spider-Man’s costume was damaged and in need of repair. Compared to a story of intergalatic beings and omnipotent aliens, the meteor works a lot better – but there is a third option. In Ultimate, Eddie and Peter were childhood friends, and their parents respectively working on a suit which strengthed the immunities of cancer paitents – it of course became Venom. I could see this storyline working in relation to a conflict between Eddie and Harry – one that didn’t appear in the comics could have been greatly enhanced.

Unfortunately, I think Spidey 3 is not going to age well when it hits DVD and cable. These flaws are going to seem much worse with repeated viewings.

I agree with you about Gwen – is modelling the only position avaliable for women in the Spider-Man universe? Couldn’t she just as easily have been his lab partner and kept it at that.