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🕷️ Spider-Cage 🕸️
It’s a steamy, late May Hump 🐫 Day when we find a new show featuring NICK CAGE AS SPIDER-MAN NOIR!!! because we only got to see two seconds of Nick Cage as Superman at the end of the Flash movie…
🕸️ Does Whatever A Spider Can… 🕷️
Whatever life holds in store for me, I will never forget these words: ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’ This is my gift, my curse. ~Peter Parker narration, Spider-Man (2002)
Marvel Comics delved into the multiverse and came up with other-dimensional Spider-Man variants.
One of whom is Spider-Man Noir, a retro-cinema hard-boiled detective character.
Fortunately, this is being brought to the small screen as a live-action series on Amazon Prime Video today.
Even more fortunately, this character is being portrayed by actor Nicolas Cage.
Let’s dive in…
🕷️ Thwip! 📺
Spider-Noir | Official Trailer (Authentic Black & White)
To be clear, this is not reinventing Peter Parker in the primary Marvel universe.
This is a multiversal variant of Spider-Man set in a retro gangster cinema milieu.
He has noir variations of classic 616 antagonists such as Sandman, Tombstone and Silvermane.
14 (Every) Heroes & Villains Confirmed For Spider-Noir Movie (2026) – Explored – Roles And Agendas
What more do you really need to say than, Nicolas Cage? The man is everywhere, including (now) the Spider-verse.
🕸️ ‘Nuff Said… 💥
If you have an idea that you genuinely think is good, don’t let some idiot talk you out of it. ~Stan Lee
Exactly. Writing a chronicle is not the recommended approach for instant authorial accolades.
Everybody wants Freytag’s diagram, a main character, first person or third person close, beginning-middle-end, maybe the Hero’s Journey.
I say “everybody”, but that’s never everybody.
That’s what the BookTubers, BookTokkers and book gurus would have you believe.
What do I say?
There’s a lid for every pot.
You don’t know who your audience is until you start cranking out stories.
Some people like shoot ’em ups, and a lot don’t.
Some people like intense legal or corporate dramas with all the insider baseball you could ever wish for, and some find that repellent.
Some people like Morning Glory Milking Farm, and we should probably give those people a wide berth.
The point is, if people like books about babysitter clubs, dating vampires, Amish mysteries or chef whodunits and a recipe, then there’s someone who’s going to be into my stories.
I’m up to Chapter 30 of Book 3 at the moment and continuing to cook…
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for longer 🌇 evenings…