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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
I'll take Spider-boy the annoying kid sidekick anyday of the week over Paul.
Like another Dan Slott creation, Silk, Spider-boy is harmless and more goofy in Slott's approach to expand Spidey's cast.
The secret sidekick erased because of a cosmic retcon
The secret girl bitten by the same spider hidden away in a bunker (that also wants to jump Peter's bones because pheromones)
So what you're saying is, there's an alternate universe where Paul is created by Dan Slott and then gets Rescued from the Scrappy Heap by a subsequent writer?
Are we sure that Earth-616 Paul wasn't adopted as a baby, then renamed Bailey?
Given that Paul's from a universe where Rabin had already tried and succeeded, his 616 equivalent is likely to be younger, right?
Humor Mode firmly engaged. I hope.
About Peter being an everyman... I do think somebody in their late 20s or earliest 30s who still hasn't managed to settle down the way the people who raised him did, but still manages to makedo, is relatable.
No need to force him into being an overgrown teen. Peter with a stable relationship, yet still no stability in life despite, well, being a decade past his teens, and more than half a decade out of Uni... is relatable. Because that's every fucking millennial.
There's a difference between relatable and just plain struggling for no reason.
Even NORMAN laid out flat that a guy with Peter's intelligence should at least be a successful inventor instead of a teacher. This was back in JMS' run mind you.
And Norman has a point. Peter is able to do stuff like make interdimentional portals with minimal tech. At the bare minimum he could at least be running a successful computer repair company or something with his genius.
Heck he wouldn't even need to go to college just patent half his tech he doesn't need for crime fighting.
I feel like this thread would really enjoy Across the Spider-Verse. Since a lot of it is basically an extended Take That! at the idea that superheroes in general and Spider-people in particular "need" trauma.
Heck, in that movie, the Spider-Marriage is shown as a cornerstone event in the multiverse with the original wedding issue artwork in what feels like a deliberate jab at people like Quesada and Wells.
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Just saying.
I've actually been liking Carnage Reigns way more than I thought I would.
The stupidity of the NYPD being willing to hire supervillains and assassins/mercenaries to slap handcuffs on superheroes aside, there are a lot of great little character moments like Normie looking up to Spider-Man and being excited to team up with Miles. Cletus' transformation into a Humanoid Abomination in his own right makes him appropriately menacing even if his plan is 90s-level goofy.
Edited by reppuzan on Jun 7th 2023 at 9:22:19 AM
The stupidity of the NYPD being willing to hire supervillains and assassins/mercenaries to slap handcuffs on superheroes aside, there are a lot of great little character moments like Normie looking up to Spider-Man and being excited to team up with Miles. Cletus' transformation into a Humanoid Abomination in his own right makes him appropriately menacing even if his plan is 90s-level goofy.
It's consistent. The cops hate superheroes in Marvel.
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Really good stuff.
I have that one. Macendale wanted the Hobgoblin formula, but Harry didn't have it. Harry basically rubbed it in his face that the entire fight was for nothing.
It also gave us a Green Goblin vs Hobgoblin fight that we've never fully gotten from Norman and Roderick.
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