Amazing Spider-Man #790-791

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Comments

[coldfury]

... Does Robbie have it figured out?? Wouldn't put it past him.

[arilou_skiff]

They've been cagey about the enitre "Does Robbie know or doesen't he?" for aaaageeees.

[shadowpsykie]

this is waaaaay past cagey though....

[dcbanacek]

Robbie isn't blinded by hatred of Spider-Man like Jonah is. If he has figured it out, and I think he has, he might keep quiet out of friendship with Peter and the realization that blabbing about it puts an even bigger target on the backs of those people around him.

Plus, if he reports the "true identity of Spider-Man" and is wrong, he just killed a kid he's known for years at worst and ruined his life at best.

[aperturedreams]

Uh, have you read up on recent Jonah news lately?

[lordultimus]

It does remind me of a scene in Hush, where Batman thinks that Perry is way too good a reporter to not suspect anything about Clark, which gets him thinking about how good a cop Jim Gordon is.

[crinos]

I recall one scene from a Batman comic where Jim is chewing out Batman for not respecting him and always leaving him hanging mid sentence and other stuff, so Bruce takes his mask off, and Jim (Who has his back turned). Tells Batman to put the mask on and if he wanted to know who he really was he could have found out by now on his own.

I think Jim DOESN'T want to know, because if he did know who Batman was he'd be obligated to hold him accountable for all the rules bending Batman tends to do in the course of his job.

[zachbeacon]

They seem to be playing it like they did before CW; he clearly knows but he's not going to admit that he knows.

[starwolf_oakley]

In "Spider-Man 2," Bill Nunn played Robbie like "I know you're really Spider-Man, Peter. Let's not make it a big deal." Actually, that's also how Rosemary Harris played Aunt May.

[zachbeacon]

Robbie had such a small part in that movie that I had no sense of what he knew.

As for May ....after Amazing 400, that's pretty much the only interpretation of the character that I will accept

[q99]

Losing the company sucks, but hey, having a full editor position is not a bad job! I'm glad they aren't going to 'Parker's life sucks and it's so hard to make ends meet,' and are instead going, 'ok, he's not going to have all these resources anymore but he's still going to have a responsible adult job.'

[reveen]

Awww, this comic thinks that tech news editor is a stable, livable job.

And that tech news not being awful is physically possible.

[cypherfdp]

Peter Parker: Video Game Journalist

[joetuss]

It works

[mesmiranda]

You know, with Spidey's sound moral core and sense of responsibility, I think we'll see a renewed sense of ethics in-- *promptly gets thrown out a window*

(I also kind of love that they think newspaper journalism is a stable, livable job. Like, oh, bless you.)

[cricharddavies]

Yeah, well ... no wall-crawling, web-slinging superheroes here either, so you might as well go all in on the fantasy. :)

[mesmiranda]

Of "a steady job in newspaper journalism" and "web-slinging, wall-crawling spider-hero with super-senses", I think the latter fantasy is probably more likely at this point. ;)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Maybe it's a little more viable for a major metropolitan newspaper?

Or wait, is it the smaller, hometown newspapers that are doing better? Crap, I think that was it.

[bruinsfan]

Also that a city newspaper would have an entire Science department rather than one reporter who writes single column articles part-time.

[silverhammerman]

I do actually think that makes it a pretty good Peter Parker job, because it allows some sense of progression and stability while still allowing him to be a character who realistically would have very mundane concerns about finances and his future. Which makes it an odd contrast after Slott did the whole Parker Industries thing and made Peter Parker so hard to relate to.

[silverhammerman]

This is the third or so new status quo that Slott has brought in for Spider-Man. I'm not saying that someone else should take over the book now, but I'm not not saying it.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Well, I kinda like this, viability issues aside. It's like a compromise between that status quo they're always throwing back to and something new.