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Your Friendly Neighborhood Joey-Man

I am now an independent contractor on the payroll of Marvel Comics.

Ask me what I will be doing. Go ahead ask.

I will be playing Spiderman for public appearances.

Every time I start thinking about it I start giggling uncontrollably. It's really good money for a completely fun gig. If I do well on my first one, which is the DVD release of the third movie here in town at the end of October, I will be given more assignments, maybe even including out-of-town gigs.

I just watched the training video this morning. The best part is they give you creative suggestions for getting out of the invariably stupid things that people will ask/demand that you do. They require that you ALWAYS stay completely in character, and they give you strategies to do so and avoid upsetting the customers.

Example: Some kid starts demanding a display of powers. He might ask you to climb the wall, or shoot webs. To a request for wall-crawling you simply say that you were doing it earlier in the day, but the owner of the building complained about dirty, ugly footprints in those high, hard-to-reach places, and asked you to stop. If some kid begs you to shoot your webs you can either site the building owner disliking the mess again, or you can say that you need to conserve your precious web fluid. Afterall, if Spidey spends all his webbing showing off, and Doctor Octopus happens to show up, we'll all be in a lot of trouble!

Should be a lot of fun. I'm off to Atomic Comics to go pickup some "character research."