News August 10, 2009

Want to climb walls like Spidey?

It seems inventor Jem Stansfield from the UK has found a way to immitiate our favorite wall crawler. He’s constructed gloves that attach to a vacuum cleaner. The invention helped him climb 120 feet. Kids, don’t try this at home! Here’s the video from the BBC of him using the device.

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Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #1003: “We Interrupt Your Spider-Man Story To Bring You Events From Another Comic” or “Raelith the Wretched’s Day Out”: “@Evan Berry: I’m pretty sure that the reader had Kintsugi’s identity revealed to us before Spidey found it out -…” Nov 13, 21:43
Evan Berry on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #1003: “We Interrupt Your Spider-Man Story To Bring You Events From Another Comic” or “Raelith the Wretched’s Day Out”: “@Hornacek — You’re correct about when Spider-man discovered Kintsugi’s identity! I had forgotten about that. I believe, though, that his…” Nov 13, 12:24
Hornacek on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #1003: “We Interrupt Your Spider-Man Story To Bring You Events From Another Comic” or “Raelith the Wretched’s Day Out”: “@Evan Berry: I wrote the bulk of the review on Wed (a holiday) while I waited for Thursday to go…” Nov 13, 09:40
Evan Berry on Craig’s Critique: Amazing Spider-Man #1003: “We Interrupt Your Spider-Man Story To Bring You Events From Another Comic” or “Raelith the Wretched’s Day Out”: “@Hornacek — I just wanted to express my condolences about Puddin’. When I saw the opening image, I thought, “Oh…” Nov 13, 08:23
Aqu@ on Spider-Tracer: 10 Good and 10 Bad Spider-Man Retcons: “I agree with most of them. I do agree that the clone coming back wasn’t a bad story idea (and…” Nov 10, 07:47
Hornacek on Spider-Tracer: 10 Good and 10 Bad Spider-Man Retcons: “How could this list leave out the biggest Spidey retcon of them all … “MJ knew Peter was Spider-Man from…” Nov 10, 06:42
Brad Douglas on Marco Speaks Spidey: Avengers #1 Review: “You should check it out, it was cool read.” Nov 7, 17:03
ac on Marco Speaks Spidey: Avengers #1 Review: “A part of me wants to go out and buy this issue, even though i haven’t bought a current comic…” Nov 4, 15:26
Evan Berry on Panel of the Day #1750! (Splash Page Sunday!): “I wonder if Green Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Carrion buy their bags at the same store.” Oct 26, 07:39
Hornacek on Panel(s) of the Day #1749: ““I Dated A Werewolf!”” Oct 24, 06:27

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