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Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 10th 2023 at 10:58:13 AM
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I mean . . . Al had a wife and kids. Peter is almost more like Bud Bundy.
Bud is actually funny, cause he was made to be that kind of character.
It's mainly that writers think that someone like Peter being flawed means he has to be a loser.
Whereas even in Lee and Ditkos run, like in ASM #2 he has had clear and unironic successes.
Dan Slott seems to be having fun coming up with really goofy and bizarre supervillains for Bailey to fight, which is fitting given the whole theme of the comic. Bailey is starting out with the kind of silly z-list losers that Peter mops up in a page or two as a Batman Cold Open, presumably so he can move on to proper dangerous villains as he gets older.
Given infinite time every comic book child will get aged up or dead
Even eternal lisping doe-eyed Franklin Richards is a surly teen now.
Forever liveblogging the Avengers

There was a new Vulture who Jameson was implicated in being responsible for creating, and Peter knew Jonah was innocent, so he faked a photo of Jonah being attacked by Vulture to clear his name.
Jameson took the high road on this, publicly admitted that Peter doctored the photo, and fired him.