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This thread's for the Spider-Man comics and spin-offs, whether they're decades old or brand new.

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Since everyone likes talking about him. I know little about him(Ironically,I got nearly all I know about him from a Batman thread),but he's apparently important so I made this thread. Enjoy.

Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31451: Oct 27th 2023 at 9:16:26 AM

That happened in the most recent spiderverse. He was called Headline I think

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immortaleditor Since: Aug, 2023
#31452: Oct 27th 2023 at 9:26:12 AM

Correct. Was actually a pretty cool take on the idea of Jonah as a superhero.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#31453: Oct 27th 2023 at 10:49:12 AM

Superior Spider-Man would be better if it starred Jameson instead of Otto.

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Mrph1 he/him from Mercia (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: This is not my beautiful wife!
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#31454: Oct 27th 2023 at 10:59:26 AM

You jest, but I now want to see an alternate universe where Spider-Jonah is a well-respected hero. Of sorts. Perhaps even an Avenger.

Possibly he replaced Hawkeye as the insubordinate jackass in the "Cap's Kooky Quartet" days.

RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Crimson Paladin
#31455: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:04:25 AM

I imagine Spider-Jonah would be Lawful Good to the core, and have a public identity.

Granted, I don't think Headline had one.

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Dayraven1 Since: Aug, 2023
#31456: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:15:47 AM

Alternatively he writes editorials in the Daily Bugle vilifying himself.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31457: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:29:22 AM

There IS a history of superheroes having side jobs in journalism.

Like Clark Kent, Superman.

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RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#31458: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:32:43 AM

Yeah but what about actually being the publisher and editor in chief?

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31459: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:33:21 AM

Not that I can think of off the dome

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RedHunter543 Crimson Paladin Since: Jul, 2016 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#31460: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:36:51 AM

Yeah there's a conflict of interest when Clark Kent writes articles about Superman, but it's a whole new level when Jameson, who is the head of his own newspaper and various other media outlet he owns, writes articles on his own escapades as a spider hero.

Clark is just another cog in the machine, while Jameson is the head of that machine.

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Zarius Since: Nov, 2012
#31461: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:45:02 AM

I guess the Ultimate news is why Dan Slott came out on CBR a couple of months back requesting that fans support a married AU Spider-Man title when it came out, dude totally knew this was coming, now he'll try to take credit for starting a movement

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#31462: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:47:04 AM

[up][up][up]Clark was the Planet's Editor-in-Chief in Kingdom Come, though at the time he wasn't active as Superman.

Edited by lbssb on Oct 27th 2023 at 2:48:09 PM

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31463: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:47:24 AM

He might just have wanted people to support a married Peter book. He did one of those too.

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#31464: Oct 27th 2023 at 11:47:47 AM

He’s the shock jock of Spider-Man but he is leaning towards pro marriage at times.

He was the guy who wrote and set the stage for Renew your vows.

Guy has a lot of contradictions in his social media and Twitter.

My favorite being that he TOTALLY made Superior to give Doc Ock an iconic moment as a supervillain to beat Green Goblin.

And the run ends with Norman utterly outsmarting and humiliating him into giving Peter his body back.

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Spirit Pretty flower from America Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
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#31465: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:19:10 PM

Spider Man tricked Jameson into shaving once or something. I don’t remember the details, only that clean shaven Jameson is a frightful thing to see

Hm, maybe it was in that issue of Spidey where Cap yelled at him

Here's the pages.

For reference, nobody tricked Jameson. Cap just confronted Jameson after another "Threat or Menace" article, and a lot of visual emphasis was put on Jameson's Hitler stache. Cut to next page and Spidey is in a web hammock outside the Bugle reading that day's retraction, gives Jameson a thumbs up, and we see a very angry Jameson took the hint and shaved his mustache.

Edited by Spirit on Oct 27th 2023 at 3:19:33 PM

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31466: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:22:29 PM

Thanks for the context [tup]

And Jameson needs to grow his mustache back asap. He looks so wrong without it

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#31467: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:23:06 PM

Just make it a bit wider so it doesn't look like the Hitler-stache

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Nofix from Over there Since: Jan, 2015
#31468: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:24:53 PM

Now I've having the mental picture of Jameson with a handlebar mustache.

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31469: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:26:43 PM

He changed his style at some point in the…. 2000s maybe? Maybe later? So that it was a wider mustache. But artists go back and forth on it!

When Jameson was a major supporting cast member of Amazing Spider-Man and Silk, he had the Classic Satche in Amazing and the Full Satche in Silk

(Not to mention that his personality and how serious a journalism website Threats n Menaces was also inconsistent between the two books.)

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neoamon Mr from Planet Mobius S.T.C. (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
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#31470: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:26:46 PM

Or say it is a Charlie Chaplin moustache. Since he wore the toothbrush moustache first.

Edited by neoamon on Oct 27th 2023 at 8:27:51 PM

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immortaleditor Since: Aug, 2023
#31471: Oct 27th 2023 at 12:41:44 PM

[up]x7 In regards to Dan Slott and the marriage and in general… I think Slott is, as you noted, kind of a shock jock. Which is to say, there’s the public persona he plays up and there’s the actual guy. Publicly — online or in the office — he’s a total company man suck-up who will never rock the boat or question orders, but beneath that he doesn’t agree with the direction Lowe and those like him have taken the book and characters and wishes it could be different.

He probably wants to write Peter as an actual adult and married to MJ — hence why his elseworlds near-unanimously do that and why his run made repeated effort to get Pete and MJ back together bit by bit — but he’s also never going to openly challenge Lowe and is willing to take the flack whenever Lowe starts making demands and ghost-writing. He writes what he’s told to write and uses the spaces between that to make stuff he actually likes. That’s my suspicion of it, at least. It would certainly explain why his stories so wildly fluctuate in quality from “some of the best writing Spidey has had in years” to “godawful trash that has no right to even exist”.

Edited by immortaleditor on Oct 27th 2023 at 12:41:56 PM

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#31473: Oct 27th 2023 at 9:09:09 PM

Preview of the Spider-Gwen:Smash mini over at Marvel's site.

It seems it will introduce the Earth-65 version of Dazzler, Rick Jones and Hulk. I am looking forward to it since it has nothing to do with variants or clones, just Gwen and the band on tour with Dazzler's band.

Edited by Cortez on Oct 27th 2023 at 12:10:10 PM

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#31474: Oct 27th 2023 at 9:11:33 PM

Not clones or variants? Is that legal? They're just allowing Gwen's universe to be further developed??

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slimcoder The Head of the Hydra Since: May, 2013
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#31475: Oct 27th 2023 at 9:25:54 PM

Oh dang finally a non-clone related story on Gwen's world, nice

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