From Amazing Spider-Man #658...aka Spidey's Fashion Faux Pas

[stillanerd]

As folks may already know, Spider-Man has become the newest member of the Fantastic Four...oh, excuse me, The Future Foundation...as seen in Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting's Fantastic Four relaunch series simply titled FF. Well, this was bound to crossover into Amazing Spider-Man currently written by Dan Slott. So, after Peter gets the call from the FF and goes to retrieve his costume (as shown in the preview for this issue) we get see that, upon Spidey's arrival at the Baxter Building, things don't go particularly well:







Now as you can probably surmise, I have a little bit of nitpick with this scene.  

1.  For the first two points, I direct you folks to this exchange between Spidey and Susan Richards from FF#1:




So, since we clearly see that Sue already told Spidey the reason for why they were wearing different costumes other than the traditional Fantastic Four ones, why then would Spidey go ahead and have a variation of the Fantastic Four costume made for him knowing full well why the surviving members of the Fantastic Four decided they weren't wearing them anymore after Johnny's death?

2. While it makes for a nice in-joke about how Spidey's FF costume makes him look like Anti-Venom, we clearly see that the new FF costumes are made of "third-generation unstable molecules" that allows the wearer to alter the color variations. So why doesn't Spidey simply do that if he's got a problem with how the costume looks?

3. Why would Spidey even leave his new FF suit at the Baxter Building anyway, considering how the beginning of this issue reminds us that he has his own storage locker at Horizon Labs where he keeps all of his costumes that only he can access? I guess we're supposed to conclude that he forgot it. But wait a minute, even if someone hadn't read FF #1, shouldn't this also inform them that Spidey already knows the FF have new costumes?

4. And finally, as shown in the previous scene where his date with Carlie gets interrupted in the very beginning of this issue, Peter narrates about how the Fantastic Four have renamed themselves the Future Foundation. So then why is he even complaining about being "baited and switched" for being on the Future Foundation instead of the Fantastic Four if he already knows the Fantastic Four are now calling themselves the Future Foundation as well as the fact they're sporting wearing new uniforms?

I know, I know, I'm sounding like an anal-retentive fanboy here, but I just felt like I had to get this off my chest.  Especially since what appears to be deliberate cherry-picking of continuity--barely a month old, mind you--is being done just so this issue can have a prolonged three to four page gag, which in turns also makes Spidey out to be an insensitive, immature, whiny moron. 

Then again, this is NuSpidey post-OMD/BND we're talking about, isn't it?
 

Comments

[blackruzsa]

Faux pas, yes.

And honestly I don't want to pick this up because it feels a little dubious to me. People working on the 616 verse have absolutely no idea how to handle Spidey anymore, and he just doesn't fit into the FF no matter what they try to do.

[baxter2814]

....you just reminded me of that '90s arc where the FF were supposedly dead and Spidey, Wolverine, Hulk and Ghost Rider took their place out of respect and failed on a hilariously epic level.

Man I miss old-school Marvel. I can't believe there was actually a time where it seemed that everything Marvel put out was more fun than DC.

[blackruzsa]

Pfft, really?
Oh, you were serious. Darn it, Marvel, SOMETHING HAPPY FOR ONCE, PLEASE! Even the tv shows they release are depressing.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Hmm, there any scans of that? I could go for some deliberate epic fail after this inadvertent one.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

[baxter2814]

If my distant memory serves me correctly, the fail was largely due to the fact that they were so ridiculously dysfunctional they made the FF look like the frickin' Cleavers. And Ghost Rider was being batshit insane and stuff.

[icon_uk]

IIRC They made the Frightful Four look like the frickin' Cleavers.

[domino_blue]

Actually if I was going to put Spidey on a super team my first choice would be the FF over the Avengers....he has a huge connection with them, and they actually respect him...

[schala_kid]

IMO I think he fits more in the FF than the Avengers, he's very closely tied to the FF and has a more family dynamic with them. He geeks out with Reed, jokes around with Ben and Johnny, has heart to heart talks with Sue (and also jokes with her too).

Although I have to say the era were he was living in Avengers Tower with MJ and Aunt May was probably one of my favorite Spidey/Avenger moments (if only for Jarvis/May and Pete and MJ having training sessions with Steve).