Spider-Man: Reign 2 #1

[cyberghostface]

"REIGN was full of tragic and dark absurdity that only a young creator could come up with. A way to challenge the idea of personal power and responsibility. But as I’ve grown older, and after sitting with this story for so long, I started to ask myself this question, 'What if there was a way to go back and change what happened? What if I could fix everything?'" -- Kaare Andrews

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Well, that was sudden. Did Peter even have time to pack the lead condoms for his younger self?

[superfangirl1]

If Miles morals is retired and out of the business of whatever he did. Why does he still wear his spider-suit. Is it a comfort thing?

[blueprintstyles]

Maybe he stole Peter's dream and became a wrestler

[cyberghostface]

I got the impression because he knew Fisk was going to visit (“I see you’ve been expecting me”).

[lbd_nytetrayn]

This.

[beeyo]

Wait, there's a sequel? Oh, I'm in

[knight_moves]

Miles getting some Saltburn action on the cover there...

[mastermahan]

Well, the first was muddled by the weird sex stuff, so hopefully this time they'll...

Nope, that appears to be a teen frenching Old Man Pete, and she's maybe Black Cat's daughter? I'm out.

[super_fly]

Sorry but the extra pages here do this comic no favours regarding the hyper-sexualised underage-appearing Black Cat 2.0 swapping spit with an elderly Spider-Man.

[cyberghostface]

Not sure what’s supposed to make her hypersexualized or underage-appearing here.

[angelophile]

I'm a fan of the original Reign, but I totally agree that the art and dialogue are very obviously hypersexualized and she looks VERY young.

I think I'll be skipping this based on these scans.

[numeronone]

It's very clearly a callback to Frank Miller's "Dark Knight Strikes Again", which apart from randomly recasting Carrie Kelly as Catgirl, also just had male-gazey hypersexualisation everywhere - including a squad of female "heroes" who didn't do anything but pose while wearing bodypaint...?

I'm no prude or puritan; sexual themes are often interwoven in superheroic fantasy, sometimes inextricably. But that doesn't excuse tackiness.

[shakalooloo]

Hmm, DKSA also had a massive, grotesque bald villain, and a former sidekick turned against the protagonist...

COINCIDENCE..??!?!?!?

[numeronone]

I absolutely read that last line in the voice of Doug Adams as Agrajag :~D

[shakalooloo]

XD

[mastermahan]

She's drawn to be small and slender with short limbs and relatively large eyes and head. There's also a focus on her puffy lips, tongue, and lashes.

[cyberghostface]

She’s petite but I’m still not seeing anything that would make me jump to the conclusion she’s underage and I’m pretty sure Marvel wouldn’t have a teenager kiss an old man Spider-Man like that. As for being sexualized I could probably find more explicit scenes with Black Cat or Catwoman.

[numeronone]

NTM that obnoxious little "tee hee, I kissed him, bet Mom'll be jealous" plays into the banal trope of women competing with one another for the attention of men.

[numeronone]

It's "Mermaid Man & Barnacle Boy: The Comic".

[blues32]

The hell is this even supposed to be? WEBB was destroyed. That was Edward Saks's thing and Spider-Man prevented it from coming about. This shouldn't be happening. ...and besides, wasn't this Peter beaten to death by an Inheritor with MJ's tombstone?

[cyberghostface]

The last part didn’t make sense even then because the Peter was depicted as being in his underwear with a cast which he only had during the first issue.