Yesterday morning was the ExtraLife.com Nerdtacular Spiderman 3 event and it was awesome. It was a whole theater full of local ExtraLife fans (mostly from Utah) and one fan that traveled all the way from Tennessee to attend. Scott Johnson, ExtraLife.com creator and webcomic mastermind, was a great host providing free Spiderman comics (cause it was national free comic day), sweet ExtraLife.com t-shirts and other fun prizes including Nintendo shaped candy and World of Warcraft booster card packs.

One of the best things about this event was the size. We filled out a whole theater, but the atmosphere was still quite personal. I got to spend a few minutes chatting with Scott and you could tell he was pretty excited by the turnout. I didn’t want to take too much of his time because I knew he was busy, but he still took the time to walk my wife and I to our seats. What a guy. He also put his mad comic skillz to good use by drawing up some custom collectible tickets for the event:

As for the movie, I was pretty impressed. There were a few small things that urked me a bit, but overall, I thought it was very well done (as usual). Let me put a small spoiler warning here for those that haven’t seen it yet, but I’m going to point out a few of the things that bugged me about it:

1) They should have made Spidey’s black outfit match the classic black suit from the comics. I’m sure it was a design decision that was made for some reason, but I would have liked to see the classic suit instead of just a blacked out version of his red and blue one. Even if they had only used that version for Venom. Just my opinion though.

2) I had a hard time believing that Harry’s mind would be so easily changed by his butler. That scene just felt a bit tacked-on to me like they were taking the easy way out. I mean, Harry has been hell-bent on killing Peter for quite a while now, but a brief 30 second conversation with the butler is enough to change his mind? I don’t buy it.

3) MAJOR SPOILER ALERT!!! Don’t keep reading if you haven’t seen the movie and wish to keep it secret until you do…

Venom can’t die! I mean… what the hell? He’s THE BIGGEST Spiderman villain since The Green Goblin and he’s only in the show for like 30 minutes. To be honest, I was totally expecting a set up for Spiderman 4 with his emergence, but instead they decide to get rid of him. It’s just wrong. Deep down, I’m hoping that he somehow survived that blast and that he’ll make a return (not sure how long they’ll try to keep the franchise alive), but I must say that I was quite disappointed.

Those were really the only parts that bugged me though and it wasn’t enough to change my overall opinion about the movie. I really did love it. And being at this fun event just made it even better.

I just want to throw out one more thanks to Scott Johnson and his sponsors for a great time. Zarch and I both had fun and we even got a picture with Scott after the movie (that’s Zarch on the left, Scott in the middle and Rudeboy on the right).

You can head on over to ExtraLife.com for a few more pictures and Scott’s thoughts on the event.