Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the news of the weekend. The first of (possibly) 3 villains in SPIDER-MAN 3 has been revealed by Sony. It's not a surprise to us here. We've been reporting that Church was going to be playing Sandman since April and Mary Jane herself said that one of the villains was going to be Sandman a month or so ago. Now the real the question is Topher Grace. Who is he playing? Did Dunst really let it all slip when she said the villains were Venom and Sandman? The sources who gave us the heads up on Sandman in the first place all seem sure that Grace is playing Electro, so... Who knows? I'm sure we'll be seeing a Daily Bugle report soon... but will it have Grace with a drippy black costume or shooting electricity from his fingers?

minneapolisgenius said:

that's so gay!

i forget my spidey comics ... what are the sandmans "talents" ????

The Sandman (William Baker, alias Flint Marko) is a comic book supervillian in the Marvel Comics universe, and an enemy of Spider-Man. He was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, and first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #4 (1963).

The Sandman has the ability to transform into a malleable sand-like substance which can be hardened, dispersed, or shaped according to his will. He possesses vast superhuman strength several times in excess of Spider-Man's, making him an equal to The Thing (85-Ton Level). This ability came from an incident of accidental radiation bombardment on an atomic bomb testing beach, the result of which was that Marko's molecules merged with that of the sand under him.

In addition to his many crime sprees, Sandman has served as a founding member of the Frightful Four which often tangled with the Fantastic Four, and of the Sinister Six which frequently battled Spider-Man and the Hulk.

At one point, after a humiliating experience of temporarily becoming a monster after he merged with Hydro-Man, he reformed, thanks in part to the support of the Thing, and became a member of the Avengers, and later a mercenary in the employ of Silver Sable. He later reverted to his villainous ways, claiming to have been faking his heroic career, although it was revealed that the Wizard had used his mind-controlling "Id Machine" to force him to act as a villain.

Later, Sandman joined an incarnation of the Sinister Six, working with Venom. It was in this incarnation that Venom bit the Sandman, poisoning him, making his body crumble. He blamed Spider-Man in the beginning but he then asked him to deliver a message to his mother. The Sandman crumbled to pieces and seemingly died, dispersing down a sewer drain.

However, Marko was in actuality not dead. His sandy remains eventually became spread out over Jones Beach, New York, with his mind and personality scattered. The beach Sandman had now merged with and taken control over began to mindlessly swallow up people into the sand, in an unconscious attempt to slowly piece himself back together. Spider-Man tried to free the captured people from the Sandman's consciousness, only succeeding when Marko exploded from containing too many clashing mindsets. Relatively soon afterward, the sand that Sandman's body was composed of spread to different areas around New York, and all of the different aspects and personalities of Sandman's shattered mind formed into their own individual beings - Marko's good side, evil side, feminine side and childlike, infant side were all separated to different parts of the city. After they were all finally merged back together into one again, the standard evil side of his personality once again became the dominant one, and the criminal named the Sandman is once again at large.

good choice

i love the faithful costume

shausler said:

it's about damn time they had a spidey villain who looks faithful to the original. he looks perfect, down to the hair. i wonder how they'll screw it up?

Anxiety said:

so true

green goblin was a discrace

Anxiety said:

so true

green goblin was a discrace

shausler said:

doc ock was a little better, but he was still a bit too snazzed up. i wish they'd do one installment of these movies retro styley.

Anxiety said:

oh, now see, I LOVED the look of Doc Ock. The managed to keep a whole lot of his style from the comic, but also not make him look like a tard.

Story wise, the movies have been VERY "retro styley", especially the second.

Story wise, the movies have been VERY "retro styley", especially the second.

and that chick as mary jane is a

horror

casting couch gone wrong

I found him online somewhere.

JediMaster said:

the goblin costume

in movie one

was a flippin disater and travesty

shausler said:

i hate kirsten dunst.

Anxiety said:

She is incredible! I can't believe you two!

minneapolisgenius said:

You find LOTS of things online, dontya?

JediMaster said:

jeds

i grew up on marvel tales

she is no mary jane

shes a lippless wonder

she holds none of the smokey coolness that

defined mary jane




tiger

I agree. They dropped the ball with the Mary Jane part. Mary Jane looked like a drop dead beautiful model in the comic books. In the movie they get Kristen Dunst who is far from drop dead beautiful and has saggy breasts. Blah.

minneapolisgenius said:

that's so gay!