ULTIMATE CIVIL WAR SPIDER-HAM (FEATURING WOLVERHAM)

Steve Kipling · 18 Jan 2006

Hah...I bought it last week

Eric W.H. Taft · 14 Aug 2006

Was it funny? I always liked Spider-Ham.

Junkie Luv · 17 Apr 2005

Why are they all pigs? Weren't they different animals before?

So in this particular issue, do they kill each other and fry up some ham and bacon?

MILFbait · 02 Dec 2004

The story starts off with Spider-ham looking for his "thought balloons" and goes from there.

Arvid Spejare · 28 May 2006

http://www.thexaxis.com/capsules/04Feb07.htm

Quote:

I mean, this is horrible - it's not even "not funny" in the way that Christmas cracker jokes aren't funny. It's not funny in the way that chairs and rocks aren't funny.

(I haven't read it myself)

Li'l Jay · 28 May 2006

Sold out at my regular shop. I didn't get it.

This had to be a record for earliest parody.

Steve Kipling · 18 Jan 2006

Arvid Spejare wrote:

http://www.thexaxis.com/capsules/04Feb07.htm

Quote:

I mean, this is horrible - it's not even "not funny" in the way that Christmas cracker jokes aren't funny. It's not funny in the way that chairs and rocks aren't funny.

(I haven't read it myself)

Ahh....eveything he says is kind of true.Not a lot of thought went into making this book. I don't regret buying it because I only had one other comic come in last week,but I doubt I'll read it again.(all those other pig characters are really Spider-Ham trying to reinvent himself.......that part is just like a posterbook....no real story.)

Evan Billingsley · 09 Oct 2006

I liked the Wieringo pages, and the first gag about looking for thought balloons was funny, but this should have ended with the panel of Spider-Ham walking past the Civil War battle scene. Heck, if those first four pages (without the rest of the book) were inserted somewhere into Civil War # 7, that would have been hilarious.

Judge WAN · 01 Aug 2005

Where's Penance?

The dollar sign is pretty funny in and of itself.

Bobson Dugnutt · 31 Jan 2005

Junkie Luv wrote:

Why are they all pigs? Weren't they different animals before?

Yup. Some of the funniest (to me, anyway) names in that series were Mary Jane Waterbuffalo, Goose Rider, Ducktor Doom, Dr. Octopussycat, Doc Clamson, The Incredible Hulk-Bunny,

and my absolute favorite animal version of a Marvel superhero...

Thrrrr, Dog of Thunder.

MILFbait · 02 Dec 2004

Arvid Spejare wrote:

http://www.thexaxis.com/capsules/04Feb07.htm

Quote:

I mean, this is horrible - it's not even "not funny" in the way that Christmas cracker jokes aren't funny. It's not funny in the way that chairs and rocks aren't funny.

(I haven't read it myself)

Probably someone who doesn't like the fact that it's making fun of Marvels' Civil War mega event. I have seen worse comics than this make it on the shelves from Marvel.

Frank L. Sisko · 25 Dec 2006

Captain Americat!

I have a vague memory of J. Jonah Jackass. Was this in the old Spider-Ham books (none of which I own), or some other parody, like MAD or CRACKED?

MILFbait · 02 Dec 2004

It was in the old Spider-Ham books and also Marvel Tails featuring Spider-Ham & Goose Rider.

Steve Kipling · 18 Jan 2006

I really enjoyed Captain Carrot.......then I flipped through a book not that long ago, that had made it gritty.........the cat member was a killer.Sheesh

Bubbles · **Joined:** 28 Jul 2005 **Posts:** 21507

That was Teen Titans, and I'm pretty sure it was meant to be very tongue in cheek.

Steve Kipling · 18 Jan 2006

Bubbles wrote:

That was Teen Titans, and I'm pretty sure it was meant to be very tongue in cheek.

ah.......Like I said I flipped through.(although since every story with CaptainCarrot is tongue in cheek,I can see how I made that mistake

)

The Spider-Ham thing is also not part of the regular SpiderHam stuff...........it ends with him being angry that Joey Da Q sent him to the Marvel Zombies universe as a Zombie Spider Ham.

Bobson Dugnutt · 31 Jan 2005

Wouldn't Zombie Spider-Ham just not be able to keep kosher?

Evan Billingsley · 09 Oct 2006

So, Dave Sim had this to say on his blog yesterday:

http://davesim.blogspot.com/2007/02/dav ... -12th.html

Dave Sim wrote:

For those not aware of the history, way back when the earth was still cooling and I had done my three consecutive Wolverroach covers on Cerebus 54, 55 and 56—thereby sincerely pushing the boundary between misappropriation of a trademarked character and legitimate parody—I suspect that Marvel decided to fire a warning shot across my bow by coming up with a funny animal version of Spider-man that was basically Cerebus in a Spider-man costume. I don't know whose idea it was (Jim Shooter his own self?) but I have to say that I always admired the thinking behind it. It was a very measured response along the lines of "See? How do YOU like it?" while also a creative one and, ultimately, a profitable one! According to my Overstreet Guide, Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham ran for seventeen issues from May 1985 to September 1987 as part of Marvel's Star Comics children's line. Not a bad run for the mid-80s

which was a story I'd heard before, but now he's doing one of the 100 Ultimate Spider-Man 100 covers for the Hero Initiative, and he's drawing Spider-Ham! That is awesome.

Eric W.H. Taft · 14 Aug 2006

Awesome! Cool cover, too.

For any interested in more on the Spider-Ham/Wolveroach story, an issue of Following Cerebus from about a year ago goes into extensive detail on the situation. All the legal stuff, thought process, near battles, etc. The whole issue is devoted to copyright discussion, homages, legality, and so on. Very interesting stuff.

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