Bees. My god.

[thehefner]

New report on Julie Taymor and Bono's SPIDER-MAN musical, and fuck you New York Post, I'm still calling it a goddamn musical and you'll like it.

Never mind the news that Spidey has a new villain named "Swiss Miss." The real news is that the show will also feature Spidey clashing with the Green Goblin, Carnage, Electro, Rhino, Swarm and the Lizard. Okay, now while I am bummed we don't get Otto Octavius musical action (c'mon, you can SO see Taymor pulling off a stage version of Doc Ock!), the real news here is clearly the fact that Swarm is included. For those who don't know, this is Swarm:



Swarm is a Nazi. A Nazi made of bees.

And soon, he shall be a singing Nazi made out of bees.

Why the hell didn't Taymor and Bono just look at each other mid-production and go, "Fuck it, scrap the whole thing and rewrite it all around Swarm, he's clearly the star here."

If they did that, and replaced Bono with Jim Steinman, we'd obviously have the greatest Broadway show ever. Sondheim's eyes would bleed from its awesomeness.

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[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Bees.

...

BEES, DUDE.

What more do you need? What other kind of insects could possibly top that?! BEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!! NAZI BEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

[swimpenguin.livejournal.com]

Bees...and fire ants, hornets, wasps, African assassin bug, spined assassin, black corsair, masked hunter, and maybe for some irony, scorpions, and black widow spiders. Let's give the Swarm a 1990's awfully grim and gritty makeover! ;)

And yes, I was lazy and just googled 'deadly insect'

http://images.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=deadly+insects&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=5ELOScrDBdrrlQemhrTjCQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=1&ct=title

http://webecoist.com/2008/09/21/killer-insects-6-natural-born-anthropod-assassins/

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

But see, all these are like fast zombies. Sure, it's more scary. But it's just... it's just not as iconic!

I mean, really, what immediately evokes a feeling of awesomeness:

A.) Nazi made of many different kinds of deadly insects.

B.) Nazi made of BEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!

I'm sorry, I just... *choke* I just can't accept it, man! I can't! You're Joe Quesada in disguise, aren't you?! AREN'T YOU?!?!

[swimpenguin.livejournal.com]

Ok, I admit, BEEESSSS!! has a definite charm. And unfortunately I don't know enough about the behind the scenes shenanigans of comic book politics to respond to being accused of being Joe Quesada in disguise, but I'll assume its an unwanted thing to be, and say NO.