lose amongst the PR for X - Men and Avengers , Marvel Comics also tried to further a “ raw ” status quo for Spider - Man this week : One where he ’s unemployed . Does great redundance amount with not - so - great attempts at topicality ? Mild spoilers ahead .
Judging by the fact that it gets its own press release , Peter Parker ’s unemployment is more than just another wrench in his ongoing hard fortune soap opera house :
[ W]hen you ca n’t pay off the greenback , how ’s a Super Hero theorize to buy web - fluid and sterilize his costume ? Spider - Man ’s about to learn that with great power and great responsibility comes the great demand to be employ — which is n’t so promiscuous when you ’re blacklist in New York City !
I ’m genuinely not trying to downplay the major overthrow that come with being force out – I have it away at first hand how it feel – but there ’s something weirdly self - dish about Marvel issuing a press release about this particular plot of land point . It ’s not just that the idea of Peter Parker attend for work is in no way whatsoever a newfangled one ( He was , after all , a freelancer lensman until recently , a life history he stumbled into because he had no other way of making money ; in fact , the job he gets fired from in this plot line is more unusual for him , in that figure out for Mayor J. Jonah Jameson is one of the few time in the case ’s almost 50 year history where he ’s had a regular paycheck and some stratum of job stability ) , but also that the press expiration itself seems oddly disjointed with reality , process the construct of unemployment as some dire , exotic matter : Apparently you need to work to give the bills — And Spider - Man is unemployed ! How will he get out of this strange novel life sentence ambuscade ? ! ? sure that ’s the opposite of what Marvel was attempt to go for , in this position ?
There ’s a sentience of deja vu about this ; just over a twelvemonth ago , Marvel wasagain talking about the problems of ceding back , something they were addressing by having the Ultimate Universe version of Spider - Man be force to work in a fast food shack to make ends meet . Apparently , Peter Parker ’s everyman position within the Marvel pantheon lay down his career path peculiarly troubled , no matter what macrocosm he ’s in . in person , I ’d rather read a story where Tony Stark ’s fortune disappeared ( again ) and he had to skin to make end meet instead of starting another instantly - successful company , or where Steve Rogers was made spare and he found himself lick for the USPS – Because , fare on , you know that he would – if only because , well , those stories might offer up something unexpected and new , instead of “ Character with bad fortune gets fired again , has to suffer job search again . ”
To add vilification to injury – or , really , diss to more contumely – Parker is patently only going to be out of work for two weeks ; the promo icon for the storyline only list two issues , making this seem even more like a gimmick than something that turn to the effect in anything resemble real terminus .
Do n’t get me amiss ; there ’s nothing wrong with dealing with things like unemployment in superhero cartoon strip . It ’d just be large if it was done without it seeming like a curtly - lived attempt at relevancy for cheap publicity ( Then again , I am writing about it , so it was successful in that esteem ) , or issuing ego - quenched public press releases about it that regale the issue as a minor annoyance that could hamper crimefighting fashion . Asking multinational media corporations to have some respectfulness for the little guy is naif to the point of stupid , I know , but still : come in on , Marvel .
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