Things I Think About #36

So the Skrulls aren't presenting a united front. They're a bunch of rival warlords, all trying to get as much land and power as they can, with no intention of working together. Seems like this has been going on since the early '90s. Wasn't there a formation of rival factions sometime after the Kree/Skrull War? They had an Emperess, one who was giving them back their shape-shifting abilities (I think the Kree used some weapon that took that away from the Skrulls, leaving them trapped in whatever form they were in, including one Skrull masquerading as the Silver Surfer). Anyway, something happened to her, and the Skrulls have been squabbling amongst themselves ever since.

I kind of wonder if that's ever going to be resolved, or if Marvel will just leave them in a state of disarray. Hmm, maybe Emperor Super Skrull?

On another topic, I was thinking about spider-tracers. I always thought that was so cool, that Peter made this device attuned to his spider-sense so he could track people with it. But he never uses them anymore. He even said as much during Hudlin's run on Marvel Knights Spider-Man.

I suppose part of the problem is that he used his webshooters to launch them, and maybe that doesn't work as well with organic webs. Of course, that was something he'd figured out later, originally he just threw them (I'm not sure how accurate something like that would really be), so that shouldn't be a problem. Then I figured it out.

He tended to use his spider-tracers to follow villains. You know how it goes: Electro steals something, Spidey shows up, they fight, Electro endangers civilians, Spidey rescues them, but Electro escapes, civilians throw things at Spidey and call him a menace, Spidey misses class, etc. Fortunately, Spidey tossed a handy-dandy tracer on Sparky, so now he can find him later and stop him.

Unfortunately, Spidey's enemies no longer commit crimes. Everything they do is some grandiose revenge scheme against Spidey. He doesn't need to track them down because they always come to him. Something Marvel definitely needs to look into fixing. You know, as soon as they finish having Peter fight other heroes.

I noticed the August cover for Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has Mysterio on the cover. I hope that it's Quentin Beck, and not that guy that bought the costume at the end of Spider-Man and the Black Cat. Man, that story needs to be wiped out of existence immediately.