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I understand the appeal of wanting every adult hero to instinctively adopt teenage Peter Parker, but can it really beat the hilarity of acknowledging that at 15 Peter was 5'10", unusually buff, went by a moniker with Man in it, wore a creepy full face mask, and had a tightly guarded secret identity and probably a Queens accent thick enough to have come out of a jello mold, and adult heroes reasonably responded to him by going, “Wow, this grown man is an immature asshole for no reason.”

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It’s shit being a superhero when you know that the multiverse exists. You spend all day saving people, you’re tired, you want to go to bed, and right before you fall asleep someone says “The High Evolutionary is going to turn everyone on earth into a werewolf!” and every bone in your body says “Fucking. Maybe we can be the werewolf dimension. The Universe Where Everyone Is A Werewolf. There are infinite dimensions where everyone isn’t a werewolf. It could be fine. It could be good even.”

And you fight the High Evolutionary and you win and your world isn’t the Werewolf Dimension. But the thought was there. God the thought was there

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I think the big issue with the mutant metaphor or other such attempts at allegory for diverse characters in the modern day is that you can now tell stories about racism with black people. It isn't the 60s anymore where the comics code authority was very cautious about that kind of thing. You can put gay people in a comic. Scott Summers does not need to experience fictionalised racism anymore, you can actually center on the people with those experiences. And as we do get more stories by black authors and by queer authors, both those about oppression and those that are not, it becomes increasingly ludicrous that the mutant metaphor actually has any use, particularly when it increasingly becomes treated as the only axis of oppression that matters with intersectional characters.

These kinds of metaphors and analogies had their use in a time where the kinds of stories you could tell were more regulated, but it is the year 2025 and I do not need to see Rogue go like "Wow, I can't believe they made a MUTANTPHOBIC HORROR MOVIE 😱😱😱" as if this is the first and worst time this has ever happened. I find it really obnoxious but equally I don't really know how they could fix it. Like, the metaphor has served its purpose. We can move on now. But the iconography of the characters remain and you can't really separate it from them, even when it becomes ever more unwieldy in a post-comics code authority comic book world.

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it took until this year for me to finally reach my limit with decompressed storytelling in comics. the most recent spider-man run opens with a story about a villain lacing a popular soda brand with drugs, and spider-man having to stop him while also fighting off the effects of the drug himself. a premise that would wrap up in one maybe two issues in 1973 clocks in at five issues in 2025. what are we doing.

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god I loved your Robbie Reyes and Peter Parker art, it's sooo gorgeous!!! May I request Spider-Man taking Robbie on a swing unexpectedly and Robbie goes like freaking out and Spider-Man goes like, "Hey, just imagine that you're racing in your car but in the air... Racing in the air?" If you know what I mean😭...

This just in, Spider-Man abducts local teen

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Khaji symbiote au part 2

Part 1

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It’s always some kind of green glowing goo with you people.

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Today’s doodle (2/100)

Mary Jane & spidey

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in absolute tears over this tik tok

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I have actually gotten Nerd Check'd by the lead designer of Magic: The Gathering about what "color" Peter Parker should be. It's a level of nerd humiliation that no one can really recover from.

(I don't think he should be Green at all. Mark Rosewater says it's because green is the color of animals and the natural world, and invokes the spider-totem stuff. But that stuff wasn't SUPPOSED to be true, that was Dan Slott retconning later! Green is also the color of letting things be and letting destiny take its path - and that's not very Peter at all!)

Like he addressed you personally? Hang in there????

Well, the totem stuff wasn't originated by Slott (we don't like him), it was his predecessor Stracyznski (we like him), and it's pretty fun in its context. But since it's introduced so late in the mythos and then fails to become integral outside of its initiating storyline, only fans of an extremely specific generation really engage with it as "the real, definitive lore". So you can defend your honor by telling Rosewater I called him old.

On a broader level I can fuck with going with green on the logic of "spider is animal". Like fuck dude it sure is. But then yeah if there's a hippie philosophy element that's shakier. Our man has never let anything take its path in his life. Idk someone is going to have to explain mtg colors to me.

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bad and naughty symbiotes get put in the salad spinner

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What's the process if you're a superhero and you come out as trans

Do you tell your villains?

Do you keep it a secret so no one can connect Spider-Man with your secret identity for a while? Or do you pop a pronouns pin on your costume and the next time you web up Doctor Octopus and he goes "I'LL GET YOU NEXT TIME SPIDER-MAN" you go "Spider-Girl actually! I've been figuring out some shit"

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CAUSE I'M A PUNKROCKER YES I AM!

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Spider-Man, Brady. Brady, the Amazing Spider-Man.

Sensational Spider-Man Annual Vol 2 1: “To Have And To Hold”