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icon_ukThere you are, trying to have a serious conversation with an eco-terrorist supervillain and your sidekick just... well...
( Poke! - Gulp! )
( Poke! - Gulp! )
Amazing Spider-Man #300
Mar. 2nd, 2023 08:05 pmiamrmanSomebody wearing what seemed to be Peter's old alien costume snuck in to the apartment and gave Mary Jane a fright.
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Ironically, given the (somewhat misleading) topline hook for Way of X -- a story about mutant religion! -- I’m yet to really respond to a story that uses Kurt to inspect metaphysics [...] I’m talking about those stories which pop up occasionally, which use him as a vehicle to delve into the granular stuff: Heaven and Hell, the nature of souls, judgment in the hereafter and all that jazz. For me, these things are articles of extremely personal faith, and as soon as you go putting them front and center in a shared-world story, you’re immediately fixing them in stone. At best, you’re going to wish you’d left a narrative backdoor open (eg: “the soul experiences what it wants to experience…”). At worst, you’re alienating a big chunk of your audience who have very different ideas of their own. Look, it’s very natural, and very human, to want to explicate every single tiny detail of a shared universe. How this works, what that does, what goes on the map here, what are the rules for this. It’s fun and we all do it. But go too far and it’s death. It’s literal narrative death. One of the many unexpected obligations of a storyteller is knowing that being specific isn’t always smart. -- Si Spurrier
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