Amazing Spider-Man #878 Preview

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1. P.S.: if I had read the preview entirely and not just looked at the picture, I wouldn’t feel stupid right now for not getting the tone of your first comment, Evan. Well, time for a facepalm!

2. Thank you guys!
   Yep, the Iron Spider suit originally had only three “legs” and it was Tony Stark’s idea, so we can blame his ignorance. 😀 I think the first time it appeared with four legs was for the Scarlet Spiders in the Initiative, so it was probably intentional. However, every time someone draws the original Iron Spider suit with four legs, it’s surely because they didn’t do their homework.
   In fact, I always wondered why the suit in the movie is called Iron Spider: it’s completely different, beside the fact it was given by Stark (but that’s true for the classic one too).

3. P.S. — I just noticed the still from Spider-Man: No Way Home and am happy to see that the Iron Spider suit has four legs. That must have been the case in Avengers, as well, but I must have forgotten. Yay!

4. @Aqu@ — I agree with Sthenurus — and if it makes you feel any better, it always bothered me that the Iron Spider suit only has three legs (in most iterations, I think, and even the PS4/5 game), so when I noticed that the Spider-man in the Iron Spider suit in a Spider-verse issue had four legs, I thought that he must be an alternate, alternate Spider-man. But I think the number of legs changed from panel to panel in that case, too.

   I wonder who thought it was a good idea to give that suit three legs anyway. I guess it looks cool with the triangular framing and everything, but he’s a spider, for goodness sake.

   I guess what I’m saying is if you need help, maybe I do, too! But it’s our love of Spider-man that brings us here, right? This is where we belong.

5. @Aqu@

   My friend, you never need help for paying attention to details. If anything pichelli could use YOUR help 😉

6. Oh, ok, thank you for the compliment!
   Yeah, as far as I know, “Wait, what?” is usually used for comedy.

   I have to blame an old friend of mine: since he made me notice the lack of a leg in Spider-man’s FF costume in a comic years ago, I’ve become sort of obsessed (and he ruined that issue for me!).
   I even went as far as noting that the great Romita Sr. made that sort of mistake for the spider on the back in one of the first issues he drew… (for the record, Ditko never made such a mistake)
   Maybe I need help.

7. @Aqu@ — Sorry for the confusion. Yes, I was being ironic — I had forgotten that English wasn’t your native language. In fact, that’s easy to forget because you wouldn’t know it from your writing!

   I work at a college, so I think I’m just inundated with lingo that I don’t understand, and to see it change year after year really makes you realize how tentative, and even arbitrary, fads can be, even in language — so maybe I just have a heightened awareness or sensitivity to it. To me, “Wait, what?” is kind of a contemporary colloquialism. The fact that both the Watcher and Ultron said it the exact same way seemed like that’s what the writers were going for, but, yeah — I would think they would speak a bit more formally. I guess they were going for humor.

   Not to harp on it, but if I see Spider-man start using the word “literally” wrong, I’m going to uncontrollably roll my eyes, I just know it.

   By the way, I didn’t even catch the lack of legs in the spider symbol from panel to panel until I went back and looked. Good eye!

8. Sorry, I’m not sure I’m following. Was that meant to be ironic? Due to english not being my mother language, to me “that tracks” sounds more like modern lingo.
   Likewise, I don’t see the problem with “Wait, what?”. (albeit maybe the Watcher used to speak in a more formal way?)

9. @Aqu@ — Don’t you mean “That tracks”? That kind of modern lingo never works for me whenever I see it in comic books because I know it’s not going to age well. It’s like when both the Watcher and Ultron say, “Wait, what?” It sounds weird.

10. I decide to give a peek to the preview. First panel, spider with only six legs on the chest. I think: “ugh, here we go again, who is the artist?”. Check the name: Pichelli. I should have known.
    A couple of panel later there’s the spider symbol with four legs on one side and three on the other. Geez, and this is just the first page!