Today’s NYT arts section (available even in the wilds of Gilbertville, Iowa) finally notes the arrival in the Big Apple of Spidermann, noted on Slog earlier this week. Your Seattle theatrical heroes are up against another evil foe, though, yet another parody take on Spiderman. This is like one of those ultra-trite comic book stories where the hero faces his/her evil clone/parallel universe version/robot (come to think of it, that’s what the last few Marvel superhero movies were about: Hulk v. Hulk, Iron Man v. Iron Men). But we all know we’re rooting for Spidermann, with his copyright-defying extra N chromosome—and was it produced before the “second” version the NYT touts? Let the battle begin.

5 replies on “New York Times Finally Catches Up with Slog”

  2. Not to split hairs, but, well, to split hairs, NYT’s dateline on that wasn’t today, it was Thursday, a mere two days after Slog.

    And remember, this is still the business we call show: looks like the other production prioritized calling Itzkoff for the NYT blog, while Osebold reached out to…Brendan Kiley.

  3. Right. Because Slog is positively dripping with all that original content. You know, the stuff that isn’t ripped-off from either The Seattle Times or, ahem, NYT.

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