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Can't shoot webs, I just make silk trampolines and shelters while I spastically hop at bad guys pic.twitter.com/ApQg5r9e3M — paige K (@pagupaige) December 22, 2018 after seeing so many cool designs on my timeline, i finally caved and decided to make my own #spidersona 🕷️💗 this is Spiderfemme!! pic.twitter.com/3zvfldGLO9 — jo {comms open!}❄️ (@jordynarily) December 23, 2018 I uh…[...]

Brian Bendis, on the news that his final issue of Uncanny X-Men would be delayed five months until October, told his readers. One Bleeding Cool reader, Nathan Adler, wrote "Brian Michael Bendis addressed the issue on Tumblr as follows: "It is not shipping in October because I am a massive spastic f**k up," As someone living with[...]

So that's how the comic begins, does it continue in a sexual manner?That "spastic shots" mention might be something of concern to some but… a demon down his throat? But maybe I'm reading too much into… Or "that's what he said"… So, yes, it looks like Midnighter, when it launches in June will be a little on the[...]

Just as "paki" has no negative connotations in the US, but in the UK, it is a very derogatory term for someone from Pakistan or neighbouring countries. One other different use, concerns the word "spastic" or its derivations "spaz" and "spazzy" In the US, these refer to someone being keen or geeky over something In the[...]

That Hasbro was releasing a Transformer called Spastic, with all of the UK-based squeamishness that would come with it. Well now it seems that the products worldwide have been renamed, with a sticker, to Over-Run You still may be able to peel it off however. It was one of those wonderfully weird Bleeding Cool stories last[...]

In his own unique style… ComicsThatShouldExistWatch: SpasticWatch: Bleeding Cool ran the "Transformer called Spastic" story earlier in the year, which it seemed almost all UK media followed up on And it looks like Hasbro are still at it, with Transformer Strafe being described on the packaging as "Other AUTOBOTS tend to stay away from him on[...]

On November the 11th, Bleeding Cool reported the story that there is to be a new Transformer toy called Spastic In which we pointed out the different cultural contexts of the word in the USA and in the UK It got a lot of hits, a lot of retweets, a lot of attention Nice Job[...]

Okay everyone, Bleeding Cool is "pleased" to announce that a new Transformer toy, the Power Core Combiners Stunticon is to be called "Spastic". Oh fuck and it's a "Stunticon" too. Okay, look, I'm not seven years old any more I'm a modern liberal fellow, aware of the dangers of causing offence, even accidentally and it's something I'd[...]

You know how long it took me to think of that one perfect word, the other day? That one gorgeous vocabulary-stymieing adjective — tip of my tongue, tip of my tongue — to seal the description of that one perfect scene in literary gold? And here's you, AARGH, flicking through a bookstore like[...]

We've inherited a reputation for pointless decorum, insane privacy and simmering resentment, all of which are — in fact — no more than the spastic side-effects of waking-up in a room full  of, say, Loud And Obnoxious Outsiders  Naming no names. (Incidentally, I'm not making this shit up.  Anthropologist Kate Fox presents a similar theory in[...]

There are scenes in which character motivations have to turn on something as invisible as an idea, or an aroused prejudice, or a spastic decision made under the influence of creepy brainmelting narcotic Nomnoms As beats on a structural wallchart hanging above my desk, this sort of esoteric wankery works fine But inject it into[...]