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Spider-Man: Life Story Annual #1
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#announcements#marvel comics#comic books#marvel entertainment#comic book announcements#spider-man: life story
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The earlier Grue post has reminded me of an observation I had a while ago but never got around to hammering out- basically no superheroes actually featured in a parahumans story maintain a secret identity in the classic bifurcated sense. There's anonymity, sure, and as seen in the Dauntless interlude there are cover stories that their neighbors hear about their day job, but with the exception of pointed edge cases like Alexandria and Brandish, the professionalization of heroism is near total. None of these people are juggling a day job. Examples of the classic dual identity situation are actually slightly more common among the villains- Purity has a day job as an interior decorator, and Kaiser and Coil are in charge of their respective companies- but of course all of those are kinda "set-your-own-hours" kinds of situations. Kaiser's got people and Coil's literally got a power custom made to grease the wheels on two-timing in that way. The majority are full-time gangsters or mercenaries. Taylor's pre-Leviathan juggling of school and supervillainy is actually the main example of anyone trying to do it and the course that ultimately takes is instructional as to why she's the only one. Taylor mentions that people joke about her iterant teacher Mr. Quinlan secretly being a cape, but a lot of the book is spent quietly putting the torch to the idea that that kind of balance is tenable. Like at a minimum people would notice that you're running off all the time, there's a whole shell-game played with pulling random kids out of class at Arcadia to obfuscate which ones are actually the superheroes.
#I have to imagine that interesting implementations of the double-life trope are floating around in the supplementary materials#and the fact that the main stories are all centered on massive crisis situations would impact the level of commitment of the capes involved#but yeah#spider man would not be able to keep it under wraps indefinitely without the help of the editorial mandate#thoughts#meta#parahumans#worm#wildbow#worm web serial
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Flash trying to catch Peter out in a lie: “so, how did you meet Tony Stark and become his intern then?”
Peter: “It all started one morning. I got up to go to school when my aunt called for me. She said she hates me and was jealous of how petite and pretty I was so she sold me for drug money.
I groaned and threw my hair into a messy bun. No one understands me, I’m not like other girls. Then, walking downstairs, I met my new owner. It was Tony Stark. His brown orbs met mine-“
Flash: “ok please stfu”
#spiderman#peter parker#irondad and spiderson#irondad fanfiction#Peter is so y/n coded#like his life is literally like a wattpad story#Tony stark literally appeared in his living room#spider man fanfic
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this is ‘junior’, he’s the peter alternate from my spidersona’s universe (richard p. parker- named after his dad so ppl call him jr). he’s also this universe’s original spider-man and my sona’s mentor.
the idea behind this was a what-if situation to miles, what if the spider-man of his universe survived and was able to mentor him? thats what i was mostly going for here w them (dont get too attached to him though!!!)
#still need to work on some more drawings#but maybe i can make a mini comic to show how my sona got bit#i keep working on junior’s story and adding more details then i remember i shouldn’t get attached bc he’s not going to be in my sona’s#life for much longer than a year and a half so#spiderverse#spider verse#spiderverse fanart#spiderman#spider man#spidersona#spider sona#amndees oc#art#fanart#fan art#digital art#amndees
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*Over the Alchemax building's intercom* “ I’ve come to make an announcement. Tyler Stone’s a bitch-ass mothershocker. He hit on my shocking fiancé. That’s right, he-“
O’hara Migu from the manga, with his ATSV movie design. I was looking for in-character things for him to do while I was learning how to draw his weird face, and I ended up with a typical interaction between Miguel and his boss at Alchemax.
I actually own an old physical copy of an issue from the original comic run from the 1992. It's the one where he's running around butt-naked and wants to die, then hang-glides off a roof and attacks a robot cowboy. I also realized recently that I can read the rest of the comics, because the internet exists and I don't have to hunt down physical copies of anything anymore. It has been hilarious to find out Miguel is as rude and bitchy in his comics as he is in the movie.
Comic Miguel's FutureReddit threads be like:
"My boss keeps anglicizing my name and hitting on my fiancé. Where should I hide the body?"
Also, I really appreciate the multiple artists in the 1992 run deciding to make Tyler Stone ugly as fuck for no reason.
#watching the movie like “why'd he want to leave his own dimension for another one?” then reading the comics like “oh.”#miguel starts the story with all his relationships on fire EXCEPT for the one with this guy who he hates#and trying to burn that bridge on purpose blows up in his face#my art#spider man: across the spider verse#across the spiderverse#spiderman 2099 fanart#spider man 2099#spiderman 2099 comics#miguel o'hara#atsv miguel#tyler stone#yea that is a snapcube reference#miguel’s life is a mess#it’s funny af#spiderverse
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ATSV Miles: swinging through the city is great but i hate getting hit by drones and birds
Comic Miles: and the missiles, so irritating lol
ATSV Miles: ????
#comic miles’s life would probably sound like a nightmare to ATSV miles that’s so funny#bc atsv miles is like a newbie compared to comic miles and just hears these horror stories everytime comic miles tries to give him advice#’if you meet thing that looks like venom but it’s red— wait do you know who venom is? okay let me back up—‘ and atsv miles is FREAKING out#miles morales#spiderman#spider man#m&m posts
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Pics of Doctor Octopus from Spider-Man Life Story
#doc ock#marvel#doctor octopus#otto octavius#marvel comics#doctor octavius#Spider-Man life story#god I have… so many thoughts about this comic and Otto’s usage in it#I read all of it last night and I can’t stop thinking about it#Mark Bagley might be one of my mew favorite comic artists#I love how he ages draws Otto and really everyone#I love Silver Fox Doc Ock so much 😭😭😭#I wish he had grey streaks in his hair in main continuity
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Spider-Man: Life Story (2019) #3, Cover Art By Chip Zdarsky
#marvel comics#Spider-Man Life Story#Spider-Man#spiderman#peter parker#venom#Venom Symbiote#Symbiote Spider-Man#art
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Restorative or Transformative?: Homoerotic Subtext, The Closet, and Ciphers in Pop Culture. The nature of commercial art is that it’s sometimes bad and inconsistent. Notably it’s also misogynistic. One way in which audiences try to reconcile massive plot holes or gaps in character motivation is by reading secrets or hidden information into a plot.
Commonly, male characters are interpreted as closeted gay or bisexual to reconcile the absence of women from commercial narratives with the generally stunted and poorly-written male characters that form the focus on said texts. This reading has become especially common among a non-heterosexual milieu. Rather than transforming the original text into some radically different new form, this closeted interpretation seeks to make the original text stand on its own as a story rather than a Swiss cheese of dumb writing decisions.
This interpretation only works for a specific type of pop, usually genre fiction. Any story in which tortured male leads eschew women in favour of male-male bonds (because female characters are constantly killed off, written sparsely, or written out, because the production team keeps casting their male buddies, because actors demand to keep having scenes with their bros, whatever) can become a sounder structure if you put one of them in a closet.
The gay interpretation is the natural consequence of shoddy misogynistic writing from ventures like Supernatural, Naruto, all the biggest hits. It’s also the natural consequence of more benignly misogynistic writing like The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes or The Lord of the Rings, where women aren’t necessarily rejected but are simply absent from the worlds of the protagonists. When the emotional crux of the story falls on male-male interactions, this reads as romantic because society at large priorities (definitively heterosexual) romance as the pinnacle of human connection. Two forces are in conflict, the primacy of heterosexuality (read as: romance) and the primacy of men.
Anyway. All that is to say that the typical gay or bisexual reading of male characters in pop fiction comes from a very real place. But, in some places, that’s the default interpretation. Angst, insecurity, secrets, double lives, fatigue, disappointment, restrained passion, stunted personal growth, anyone living in the closet can tell you that it impacts and defines your whole life to know that you live in a way fundamentally incompatible with The Proper Way that life is structured around down to tax law and superstore prices (which assume a heterosexual nuclear family unit). Characters in fiction also tend to have personal problems because that makes them interesting and tasty.
If you’ve grown up on stories with the specific type of misogyny that can be papered over with a closeted interpretation of the male leads, carrying this interpretation over to any male character will make sense more often than not. Even a bit of angst or insecurity? Well of course that makes sense if a character is closeted.
Except that’s hurt a normal part of fiction, and sometimes the closeted interpretation takes away from the point of a character. If a male character is on another axis of marginalization, the closeted interpretation imposed by the slash reading community downplays or trivializes the effects of that marginalization in the plot by overwriting it with another type of marginalization. Alternately, sometimes a character’s heterosexuality is a part of the story. There are some sorts of critiques or investigations of misogyny or masculinity that don’t work if the character has an ‘opt out’ of the cisheteropatriarchal perspective. Not that gay/bisexual men aren’t except from misogyny, but misogyny masculinity and heterosexuality are so tightly linked that it sort of defeats the point if you interpret that character outside of heterosexuality.
All that is to say—the closet interpretation is a quick and easy spice to apply to the weaker parts of action-adventure genre fiction to make it taste better. It draws from a large enough sample of art that it’s pretty widely applicable. Because of that, it’s part of some people’s [my] default interpretation package just because the semi-dull macho show at least gets less dull if you imagine there’s a reason for there to be no girls besides simple hatred. That then forms its own problem where the interpretation that works with your average genre work gets then blanket-applied to all genre works and obscures the places where the closet interpretation doesn’t fix the work, and actually makes it less interesting.
#kelsey rambles#I’m as guilty of it as anyone.#just thinking about Johnny Storm and like. bisexual ass character. deeply bi guy. but.#what IF he’s just heterosexual. what then. wouldn’t that almost be…more interesting#if he’s Like That and not closeted? what twisty gnarled psychological torments would a good comic have to explain him#and on the other hand. that one post I saw about how miles/hobie totally misses the point that their relationship is about solidarity#spider-punk and spider-byte’s alliance with miles are the same thing and to read it as romantic erases the important part#and on a third hand. when speaking of miles’ story. the stupid fucked Bendis running joke/subtext with Ganke#to have Miles be gay would possibly take away from the messy and interesting part of his character that is being a person with nothing#to hide. a totally honest genuine straightforward kid who is forced to start a double life by an outside actor#but at the same time it’s dumb and a cop-out to throw in that much bait and that much of a genuinely charged tense friendship#and then go ‘lol jk. nothing to see here’#the other thing is the semi joke in atsv about ‘coming out’ as spider-man#the most important thing about Miles having to hide is his relatively precarious position as a black kid. he’s not afforded the leniency#that Peter Parker would expect if he got unmasked. Miles is more cautious because he is in more danger because he’s Black#so to paint that struggle with the gay brush is to disregard the character’s raison d’être. while also#using that sort of language and structure deliberately puts a gay lens over that character and ignoring that or kicking it to the side#feels a bit cheap. to borrow the look and not the substance#way too many tags and it’s past my bedtime. thesis statement is:#miles morales is a character whose history is fraught with plenty of real gay subtext and whose character struggles are entirely divorced#from any sense of gender performance. he’s subtextually bi but that’s got so little to do with his story that it feels almost wrong to read#that into him because there is so much other interesting stuff going on with him
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#spiderman#spider-man life story#peter parker#mary jane watson#mary jane parker#peter and mary jane#peter x mj#petermj#peter x mary jane#Peter and MJ#peter parker and mary jane watson#otp#one true love#true love's kiss#spider marriage#spider family#chip zdarsky#bring back nick spencer#undo one more day
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Okay but like Peter Parker reincarnated as dick grayson angst
#peter parker#dick grayson#nightwing#spiderman#Me in my little head listening to music and suddenly it auto fills a gap that wasn't even there and now I can't stop thinking about it#batman#story prompt#fic prompt#Fic idea#The angst would be juiciest if he didn't keep his powers#So like he's always pushing his body further to try and gain back just an inch more of what he had#Because even as spiderman he was too slow or weak to save everyone and he never realised just how dependent he was on his spider sense#At first he's living the dream with alive loving parents and acrobatics and travelling the world in peace#He's crushed when they die. In a way spiderman could have so easily prevented with his webs. He had to watch AGAIN. He's furious#With his experience from his previous life he latches onto batman and creates Robin from that. He balances school and hero life once more.#He becomes night wing when Gotham grows too dark and stifling. He needs out. To be a solo hero again. He hates that he has to leave batman#But at least he's alive to be mad.#When he gets siblings wow new experience!! Batman parenting normal kids is Such a bad idea but he'd die for them!#Then everything cascades and batman goes from iron man/daredevil to punisher/black widow and Jason doesn't want to listen#Even tho he died too and it hurt and b had a bio kid and he's batman until he isn't and he misses aunt may and still he loves being alive#Because spiderman was killed#And nightwing is older than he will ever be
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did i mention i started reading the fantastic four comics
#like from the beginning. from 1961.#okay that's not entirely true i also read life story (a colossal slay btw) and the spider-man/human torch series (another slay)#anyway the old comics are so fucking funny. it's so 1961.#just silly and cheesy and funny and melodramatic as hell i love it so much
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A follow-up to my Miguel as Miguel Rivera's great-grandson post:
Just thinking about one of the Spiders from either the later half of the 20th century or the early 21st century playing some Ernesto de la Cruz music and Miguel bolts his ass down the hall to rip the device apart and then he storms away with no explanation.
Everyone now knows he hates Ernesto de la Cruz, but no one knows why. So people come up with wild theories, anything from de la Cruz being a time-traveling musical villain in his dimension to Miguel having a failed music career and being jealous of "the greatest musician ever". Those whose dimensions are after de la Cruz got exposed stay quiet bc the theories are funnier than just assuming Miguel really hates this specific murderous fraud from well over a century ago.
Meanwhile, Miguel just stomps his way back to his hidey hole and plays his bisabuelo's music (especially his covers of Hector's songs) loudly to calm down. Then he calls him and they talk about their hatred of Ernesto de la Cruz 🥰, he loves talking shit with his 100-year-old bisabuelo lol
#miguel o'hara#miguel rivera#across the spiderverse#spiderverse#spider man 2099#coco 2017#i can't stop thinking about them they're taking over my brain#i have this image of 6'9'' miguel helping his 5'3'' bisabuelo clean up and maintain his ofrenda in santa cecilia#while miguel rivera tells him all about everyone featured on it#his favorite story is about his tatarabuelo hector#maybe miguel one day tells his bisabuelo about being spider man and in return miguel r tells him about his life-changing adventure#in the afterlife#especially meeting hector and the story about how he actually learned what ernesto de la cruz did#and now miguel just has constant beef with a man whose been dead for well over a century#maybe there's a universe where he still killed hector but somehow became spiderman. miguel almost kills him on the spot#hasan't
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So I just watched Across the Spiderverse
#I’ll tag spoilers as ATSV spoilers and SMATSV spoilers!#relatable#lol#a day in star’s wacky life#spider man#spider man: across the spider verse#across the spiderverse#smatsv spoilers#atsv spoilers#IT WAS SO GOOD#OH MY GOD I LOVED THE COLORS THE ANIMATION THE STORY#AND MIGUEL AND HOBIE!!!!#this is so good and I need to draw the characters right now it’s amazing!!!
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going through the research stations again in msm1 and while i really loved graham phillips’ performance in msm2, hearing scott porter again feels like a gut punch. “you know what bud…” i love him what the fuck. just one cutscene of him actually onscreen please god i would love to know what his harry felt like as a fully realized character bc the snippets leave a lot to be desired + scott’s performance as corrupted barry allen in suicide squad ktjl was one of the only redeeming parts of that game and makes my brain spin with possibilities for his venom
i almost feel like he really is more in line with the essence of john bubniak peter while the msm2 iteration of peter makes sense with graham. do you get it. do you get me
#none of this is graham shade btw i mean it when i say i enjoyed what he brought to harry#and he’s a big reason i was spurred to write insomniac parksborn fics#also i am actually replaying the remastered so technically this is the msm2 iteration but i mean the ESSENCE of john bubniak#and the subtle nuances of msm1 pete that didn’t quite carry over into msm2#i can see this harry and that pete so vividly in my mind it makes sense#scott porter in another life…..#maybe#also unrelated but i find it hilarious doing the research stations post game#because peter will still be like huh harry sounds off. wonder if there’s something he’s not telling me#like yeah he’s currently undergoing severe treatment for his genetic illness we JUST went through this#side mission dialogue that isn’t quite synced with the main story my beloved 😁#harry osborn#marvel’s spider man#insomniac spider-man
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