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aiptcomics.com • 44 days ago

Is it time for Spider-Man to grow up? 🕸️
#SpiderMan #MarvelComics #comicbooks #comics
🕷️💥 Dive into our latest feature by @michaelg24.bsky.social to explore how Peter Parker can break free from his endless cycle of setbacks and evolve into a truly relatable hero for modern readers:

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uncannykyle.bsky.social•44 days ago

This is funny, I have a rough outline of something I’ve been working on where I say Marvel should take their cues from DC and how they’ve approached Nightwing and Flash post-Dark Knights Death Metal. Make Peter the youthful superhero coming into his own with a superhero family and his own family.

hellsonly.bsky.social•44 days ago

That would be great. But marvel always wants to regress Peter's maturity since the 90s.

johnhunter38655.bsky.social•44 days ago

A character starring in a never-ending monthly serial for 60 years by definition can’t grow up. One of the most interesting developments of the Lee/Ditko era was Peter graduating from high school and going to college, but shortly afterwards Lee decreed that the illusion of change beat real change.

garlador.bsky.social•44 days ago

Stan also said he didn’t always agree with the “illusion of change”, especially once the illusion wore off, which is why he was one of the most vocal proponents of Peter getting married and tackling new responsibilities with a family.

johnhunter38655.bsky.social•44 days ago

Fair point, but if the Peter introduced in Amazing Fantasy 15 had grown and changed like a real person, he'd now be tackling the challenge of living in a nursing home. After a certain point, the distortions of Marvel Time become so great that a reboot such as Ultimate Spider-Man makes more sense …

johnhunter38655.bsky.social•44 days ago

… than trying to shoehorn sixty years of "continuity" into the life of a character who's aged ten or twelve years at most in his fictional reality.

garlador.bsky.social•44 days ago

The idea of a reboot is coming up more and more frequently (CBR did an editorial this week).

The issue is time is still moving forward regardless. Peter met Harry in college, Harry got married, had a kid, and Normie is 10 years old. Eddie has a preteen son. Etc.

Peter is being left behind.

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