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I want a Doctor Octopus for Christmas

Only a Doctor Octopus will do

Don’t want Thanos, no beasty Hank McCoy,

I want a Doctor Octopus to cuddle and enjoy~

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Santa gives Ant Man and Doc Ock a lift home and the story ends.

That was... kinda fun. I don’t know what else I expected from a comic involving Doc Ock and Christmas. There were a couple jokes I could’ve done without (namely the fat shaming, especially in this one because dude, Santa is right there), and I’m not too keen on some of the character artwork, but I kinda liked it. Not much else to say, really.

Hope you all have or have had a good holiday and enjoy 2022.

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“It wasn’t as bad as when that skeleton did it.”

“That was quite a year, I’ve got to admit.”

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Anyway, here’s Rudolph biting Doc Ock's ass

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“Swarmy”?

Anyway, Ant Man summons an army of toy soldiers to help him fight back against Doc Ock, then someone tells them both to stop.

Santa!

Santa turns them back to their normal size and fixes up his factory, so it seems like most everything’s back to normal. Well, as normal as you can get from a comic book universe.

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I think Otto missed his true calling as a toy designer because that skateboard sounds sick as fuck. Yeah, it’d probably kill people, but still!

Anyway, Ant Man uses a toy car to trip up Doc Ock and then uses special gas to shrink him down to the same size as him... which Otto points out was not a good idea on Ant Man’s part because now he’s aware of his opponent and around the same size as him.

At least we can agree on him not thinking this through.

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Yep, Doctor Octopus is responsible for the coolest knockoff Barbie ever devious Darbie and a number of other messed up toys from the looks of it. Given the title for this story, that’s not surprising.

Ant Man tries to summon an army of ants to stop him before realizing that there are no ants at the North Pole (lucky them), so he’s gonna have to come up with something else to stop Doc Ock.

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Dude, if my Barbie dolls as a kid were more like this I would’ve played with them way more often than I did, holy shit.

Anyway, this story starts on Christmas Eve with Scott Lang a.k.a. Ant Man saving his daughter from this “demented and deranged Darbie” that’s attacking her. He can’t find a manufacturing label among the broken pieces, which makes him suspect that something is up. So what does he do to get to the bottom of this? Mails (uh, Fed-Ex’s) himself to the North Pole.

Oh, and this is all being told in rhyme. I can’t say I was ready for that even with this comic’s lighter tone.

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I don’t know exactly what I’m in for, but I’m here for it.

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I have questions about this cover. Not the “they think it’s Halloween” thing, more like “is that supposed to be Green Goblin on the right there, and if so why is he blue and orange and not, y’know, green” and “what the hell, this was published the month and year I was born?!”

Anyway, this is one of those comics that’s got multiple stories in it, but honestly I’m only here for the first one “Ock Around the Christmas Tree” and it doesn’t look to be that long, so maybe I’ll actually finish this one quickly for once.

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So, uh

(ahem)

Shit’s been crazy on my main blog and in real life as of late. You, uh, might’ve heard about a certain movie that came out recently that features a certain comic book character in it. It seems some people have seen me talk about it.

...Look, I didn’t mean to put things on that long of a hiatus here, but jumping into something like this on a whim and then learning more things you’d have to talk about in the future if you keep going while all sorts of other shit’s happening to you elsewhere is A Lot. That being said, I did promise myself that I’d at least cover a certain comic some time this month, and all signs today seem to be saying that I should do that tonight. I’m gonna be taking a small break from the main 616 continuity to talk about something... else.

We’ll see how this goes.

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Hello and welcome! My name is @animatedc9000, and I welcome all of you to my liveblog sideblog!

Here I will liveblog movies, TV shows, anything that tickles my fancy that I’d like to share with you. I already have some ideas, but I’m open to suggestions as well, so feel free to suggest!

[This entire thing was inspired by my partner’s own sideblog (@blapisblogs, it’s really good, you should check it out).]

Watch this space for future liveblogs! Hope to see you there!

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I’m so sorry for posting a whole page’s worth of panels, I really am, but... I can’t not do that with this. Doctor Octopus (presumably) kills Hammerhead via throwing trash cans at his helicopter. Hammerhead was brought back to life only to (maybe) die in a more ridiculous way. Hope his ghost doesn’t come back and start haunting you again, Doc, because this time his death was undeniably your fault.

Anyway, after that Spider-Man escapes the revolving room with an unconscious Aunt May, and Doc Ock meets up with him again demanding that he hand over May now that Hammerhead is out of the way. Before the two can fight over her, the sound of an emergency siren draws near. Doc Ock thinks it’s the police coming after him so he makes a hasty retreat, threatening to return... but it turns out it was actually the fire department, likely responding to some of the damage Spidey caused inside when trying to stop the revolving room from spinning out of control. The issue ends with him leaving May on the ground for them to find and take care of while he swings away into the night.

So this wasn’t as crazy to me as the whole “Doc Ock-Aunt May wedding” issue... but damn if this didn’t get crazy about halfway through. I kinda love it. This was... certainly a way to bring Doc Ock back after having him killed off in the wedding issue, but I’ve heard plenty of stories about how weird comics can get with their retcons and their character resurrections, so I dunno. Either way, I’m glad he’s back and I’m curious about what he’ll be up to next time.

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Doc Ock managed to escape the room before Spider-Man brought it to a full stop, and he made it to the roof... where he falls off because it turns out Hammerhead also had a hidden helicopter pad in his hideout.

...Weird how this isn’t the first time I’ve seen a comic book character fall a few stories and into an alleyway. At least this one didn’t lose his pants in the process.

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Anyway, Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus have found where Hammerhead and Aunt May are (and arrive just before Hammerhead could hit her for refusing a drink from him, yikes), but it’s not like he was unprepared for visitors. Hammerhead makes an escape with all this going on... and since this is happening in the revolving room, getting out to go after him won’t be easy, and it’s been made even more difficult since there’s something up with the mechanism that causes it to spin. Man, everyone in there must be feeling dizzy right about now.

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One of Otto Octavius’ little-known talents: knife-throwing.