Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #3
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scans_dailySo Miles' best friend Ganke wants him to test out his new powers, but Miles is still reluctant. Fate pushes his hand when a nearby building is on fire.
Later, however, his schoolmates are called into the gymnasium for a drill...there's a superhero war going on the Queensboro bridge. (They're in their pajamas because it's an academy where they stay over the week)
Later, however, his schoolmates are called into the gymnasium for a drill...there's a superhero war going on the Queensboro bridge. (They're in their pajamas because it's an academy where they stay over the week)
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Date: 2011-10-15 06:30 pm (UTC)Buying this like right now.
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Date: 2011-10-15 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-15 07:15 pm (UTC)Miles' friend there is a dick in that last page. Looking right at Miles with a disappointed face that Miles didn't put on some half-assed costume the second he finds out Spider-Man may or may not be dead. Yeesh. Kinda hoping he's the Uncle Ben in this situation right now.
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Date: 2011-10-15 09:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-15 10:13 pm (UTC)And I mean, literally this page is the SECOND he finds out. Maybe it's "So what, he's Spider-Man. He'll pull through, dude's a superhero, not Joe Schmoe. Please."
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Date: 2011-10-15 10:20 pm (UTC)Like the Danielle Cage reveal in the run up to Secret Invasion.
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Date: 2011-10-15 07:54 pm (UTC)He might be worried about what people think of him now, but despite what his friend seems to think, people REALLLY aren't to take well to someone else in the Spider-Man persona once Peter's funeral is over.
I can see it now,
Ganke: Come on man, this is your chance! Live up to Peter Porker's..
Miles: Parker...
Ganke: Whatever. Live up to his example! You have a responsiblity to use your powers for good!
Miles: Well Okay...
*Moments Later*
Crowd: He's disrespecting Peter Parker's memory! Get him!
Miles: ;_;
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Date: 2011-10-15 09:52 pm (UTC)Is it weird when reading this I kept on thinking, "You have powers, don't want to become Spider-man, why not start EMT/First Responder training?"
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Date: 2011-10-16 02:20 am (UTC)I was like, "Why is it ALWAYS A FIRE?" for superhero initiations....
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Date: 2011-10-16 02:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-16 06:40 am (UTC)i loved this issue. i love miles. i want him tobe a hero, but i also want to hug him and tell him everything is going to be okay!
i have to say though, i thought i loved his dad... then he goes off and... damn i am sorry... to me (and maybe i am just projecting) miles finding out he is gay, his dad saying "I will love you and respect you, i am always here for you" *in walks some one with a gay pride shirt* "Damn homos! they need to fucking round you up and lock the key!"
really it felt like a punch in the gut to me
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Date: 2011-10-16 07:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-16 02:17 pm (UTC)However, because of the mutant situation it's a little more extreme than it would be in the direct analogy. Which is one of the problems with the metaphor, there are legitimate, rational reasons for people to be a little leery of mutants (not to discriminate, IMHO, but to be worried), so for the metaphor to hold you either need the reaction to be a lot more extreme, or you get people pointing out that mutants are really something to be concerned about. I imagine that were this a non-superhero story and Miles' issue was he gay it's a little less like "round them up and throw away the key" and more "eww, that's disgusting. they should keep their deviant behavior to themselves." Which certainly isn't good, by any means, and something you could believe would prevent him from confiding in his Dad, but not necessarily an insurmountable block to acceptance.
In fact, I suspect it's meant to be, in the long run, a metaphor for "Because my parents were always a little bit bigoted I was so afraid they wouldn't accept me, but once I told them it turned out they were okay with it (even if they did need a little time to get used to it)."
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Date: 2011-10-16 04:02 pm (UTC)Then again, if Bendis is trying to go for a gay metaphor and screwing it up, that's different entirely.
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Date: 2011-10-16 05:03 pm (UTC)I have to think that anti-Muslim bigotry maps better to this metaphor, but I haven't read this book yet or seen the scene in question...
He's wearing a cool shirt
Date: 2011-10-16 08:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-16 10:54 pm (UTC)Beast moment
Date: 2011-10-17 05:11 am (UTC)Ganke: "Dude, you can get her. Climb up there."
Miles: "People will see me."
Ganke: "Who cares?"
Miles: "You're right." (goes to be a big dammed hero)
Peter lost someone dear to him before it occurred to him to use his powers to save others. For all his reluctance, that is a problem Miles doesn't have.
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Date: 2011-10-17 12:35 pm (UTC)Anyway, loving the art!