In Peter Parker: Spider-Man vol. 2 #22, writer Paul Jenkins and artist, Mark Buckingham introduced Typeface. Typeface was an anti-hero that used letters other tricks as weapons against Spider-Man and criminals. In October of 2000 there was a contest to create an original costume based off of a Spider-Man villain for a party using pieces of a military costume, make-up and spelling letters. It won most original costume and a $10 gift card. The entire costume cost $10.
This stuff has to be better than Spidey cereal.
When you have to pack for grandmas house but want to ride your luggage too.
You’d be the coolest dad if you drove around with this in your backseat. You can order this here if you really like it.
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Quinn: Has there ever been an example of long-lost, never before heard of, friend or relative suddenly appearing and it…” Jul 1, 09:03
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “Hey, if nothing else May can win a huge lawsuit. The whole hospitals make mistakes is so lame. I can’t…” Jun 29, 23:45 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Dark Mark: “it is better than i thought it would end up being” That’s like saying a slap in the…” Jun 27, 08:09
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: ““(Wait, this is the issue where May and Ben explain the birds and the bees to young Peter?)” Hahahaha! I…” Jun 26, 07:19
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Bruce, not Groos — Thank you for that! I didn’t realize it was a specific word, made up or not.…” Jun 22, 06:57
on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@evan berry @hornacek the word in the song was a made up word, “groos”, according to Jeff Lynne, the writer/singer…” Jun 21, 21:47 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Evan Berry: Unfortunately, until this issue I thought ELO was saying “Bruce!” I am fine with supervillains updating their look…” Jun 21, 13:48 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “As always, another great review! I knew that ELO isn’t saying Bruce, but I have no idea what they’re actually…” Jun 21, 10:57 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “@Bruce Wechtenhiser: I’m always scanning the letters page for any Crawlspace related names, so yours immediately stuck out. I didn’t…” Jun 20, 06:38 on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #31 (Legacy #995): “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Cousin” or “The First Rule About Super-Villain Fight Club Is …”: “Whoops, I had copied Paul’s comment to write my reply and forgot to delete the rest of it before posting!” Jun 20, 06:37
@11 – His arch-enemy was Kevin.
@10 – interesting. I always suspected he was a shape shifter who was spying on Peter’s attractive neighbour, and stumbled onto Peter’s identity in the process. We could both be right, that would make for an interesting OGN.
@7 – I like to think that Baxter was the interdimensional guardian of a doorway to other dimensions.
All the letters were from a happy birthday and anniversary banner.
I was asked I believe about 7 times that night and 5 were from women. Sadly even though I was single at the time they were there with their boyfriends. But I can say I had an “A” for effort. I won most original but 1st went to this friend of mine who made an incredible Mad Hatter costume and this was 9 years before Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland.
Ryan – That is a great costume idea.
One Halloween I dressed as Dr. Horrible, and had explain it a few times. How many times did you have to explain this one?
@5 – That dog haunts me! He’s my F.A.C.AD.E! What was he up to?
I was part of two of these types of contests. The first was as Typeface, which in the pre-facebook days of 2000 would have probably have gotten me so many likes and shares it would have went viral. The following year I ended up creating the Flash rogue, Murmur from mask to leather costume, Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver were so impressed it was part of the comicbloc boards for a few years. After almost a decade out of creating costumes based on obscured super villains I created Bomb Voyage from the Incredibles since one of the homecoming themes this year for my school was the Incredibles. I even worked on translating quotes from the movie into French and several teachers and students who were wearing the made up costumes from the movie were shocked how easily I put it together and impressed how well it mirrored the movie.
@4 – With Baxter the dog as the big bad.
I wanted a mini series with Kevin and Fusion.
I think it’s fair to say this was not one of Paul’s better villains. But I miss Fusion. He should be used more. (And Kevin the Cheese)
Reason # 121423 why Paul Jenkins rocks!
I just gave Paul Jenkins a heads up about this awesome cosplay. I’m sure he’ll get a kick out of it. LOL