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the thing is...
Peter Parker is too awesome a character to be reduced to the team mascot, everybody's kid, or the comic relief. He has one of the all time great superhero origin stories. In almost every continuity, he's one of the heroes most likely to come through for you. He's self-sacrificing, experienced, really, really smart, and all around too great to be an also ran. JUSTICE FOR PETER PARKER NAO.
(This journal just gets increasingly ridiculous with every post, doesn't it?)
(This journal just gets increasingly ridiculous with every post, doesn't it?)
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This is a result of an ongoing discussion on Twitter, basically WHY DON'T PEOPLE GET HOW GREAT HE IS????
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oh Peter. you are pretty fantastic.
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Do you remember the 90s Spider-Man cartoon? I was ALL ABOUT IT. Peter.
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THAT CARTOON YESSSS. my baby sister and I watched it religiously!
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So what are your feelings about the Spider-Man reboot?
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I did hear that Ultimate Spiderman is going to feature a biracial kid named Miles Morales as the new Spiderman, and he sounds frankly AMAZING. Even though I am sad that, well, we have Miles because Peter is dead. I would have liked biracial Peter, because that way NOBODY HAS TO DIE and we still get some varied representation up in this comicsverse!
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Andrew Garfield's face is... man. Just so adorable. Also his hair. What even is that? *gush*
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I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS ABOUT SPIDERMAN BECAUSE I SPENT MY CHILDHOOD WANTING TO BE HIS BFF BUT I HAVEN'T DONE MUCH READING BECAUSE I AM SO TERRIBLE AT BEING A COMICS FAN.
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There are some pages up of Miles!Spider-Man on Scans Daily and HE IS AMAZING SO FAR. I think you'll like him. He's go Peter's over-developed sense of responsibility, but is very much a new character.
Being a comics fan is hard though! There's so much history. Where do you begin? What are the good stories? I happened to get into them when I was young and had lots of disposable income--that helped.
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Basically, DCU is pretty bad, but at least I've read a few trade paperbacks. I'm even more lost when it comes to the Marvel universe, so I probably won't be holding up my end of the conversation here, but omg I LOVE TALKING ABOUT BOOKS SO LET'S HAVE A GO ANYWAY.
I am super excited that we finally get some heroes of color because I have never ever been able to handwave the fact that all superheroes are white dudes from America and apparently anything globally affecting centers around shit that happens to people in America, and only white dude people in America. It's just - I like sci-fi and superheroes, I am willing to handwave a lot, you know? But when every single fucking narrative involves things that affect, at the very least, a major metropolitan area but often at least a continent and usually the whole globe, but somehow nobody ever looks like me or a lot of the people I know - it's just. I can't handwave that. It's a bit of unrealism that constantly kicks me out of the story. It's not even that I'm too ~aware of social justice~ to handwave it away - it's not that I'm so smart or so noble, it's just that I literally cannot accept that much unreality without being kicked out of the narrative, and keep in mind I AM ACCEPTING A LOT OF WEIRDASS PSEUDOSCIENCE ALIEN MAGIC SHIT WITHOUT BLINKING.
...so basically I am thrilled about Miles, is what I am saying. I just. WORK WITH ME JUST A LITTLE BIT, PEOPLE, I WANT TO LOVE YOUR COMICS AND LOSE MYSELF IN YOUR NARRATIVES. Please just TRY to make it easy for me to do that!
also Andrew Garfield's face is pretty amazing, but his hair is just - oh my god what is that even IT IS SO FLIPPY AND GRAVITY-DEFYING AND PERFECT. I love his hair more than I love his face, and his face is pretty great.
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Spider-Girl is an alternate universe story in which Peter and MJ's daughter May (who was killed as an infant by Norman Osborn in the main universe, and then retconned entirely) discovers her powers and becomes a teenage crimefighter in her own right, and both she and MJ are forces to be reckoned with. There are lots of other great female characters too.
And of course there's Ultimate Spider-Man, which has badass ladies in spades, albeit with somewhat different characterizations than their main universe counterparts.
Uh, yeah, hopefully that will keep you for a while? XD Sorry this took so long, I've been a little busy the last couple of days.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH, this will definitely keep me for a while and your summations have me making this face: ♥_♥. omg laaaaaaadies omg Peter OMG EVERYTHING SOUNDS ADORABLE AND LOLARIOUS AND NOTHING HURTS. Also, I can actually catch up with some stuff easily because it's nicely collected in trade paperbacks yesssssss.
I AM SO EXCITED YOU HAVE NO IDEA. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
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