Thursday, June 18, 2020

Spider-Man: The Wall

 He's just a wall of bricks.  How does he use the restroom?  Does he literally shit bricks?  

So, I was listening to the overview podcast about Sonichu and one of the people revealed the Spider-Man villain The Wall.  When I heard the origin, I couldn’t believe this thing was real.  Low and behold, The Wall is a real Spider-Man villain.  So, what was the dark origin of Spider-Man's greatest threat?   
From the Marvel Wiki page, ((While happily working at his part time job one day, laying bricks and pouring cement, Joshua Waldemeyer was caught in a sudden explosion. The blast sent one of the walls Joshua had been working on tumbling down on top of him. Instead of crushing Joshua, the accident bound him with the bricks, turning him into a living wall.)) 
So, a bunch of bricks fell on him and it somehow mutated him into a wall of bricks.  It was just a simple explosion.  If I step in a pile of dog shit, does that somehow morph me into dog shit?  Man, I thought DC Comics were strange.  Instead of calling himself something cool like Brickhouse. Actually, there was a Brickhouse introduced in Milestone Comics.  She was a human woman that merge with bricks due to some evil tear gas.  Anyway, The Wall has the one superpower, he can disassemble himself into a pile of bricks and bring himself back together.  Wow.   
I am surprised they didn’t bring him back for the Ultimate Comics back in the 2000s.  I could see a grittier and realistic The Wall.   
BTW, Spider-Man and The Wall hash it out on a park bench.  And, that's the last we see of him.  What did he do after that?  Did he join the X-Men?  






See, you can do it right.  



No comments:

Post a Comment