John Byrne's MAN OF STEEL

[Anwar]

So what does Peter do when Doc Ock starts tearing up downtown in the middle of class? Call for nap time and hope no-one notices him duck out the window? Freelance photographer is a great job for a super-hero. You work on your own time, with no-one, and accountable to no-one.

Same thing he did when he was a teacher's assistant at ESU teaching classes and stuff.

Heck, it would make for some good stories seeing him deal with that. After all, "great responsibility" doesn't just extend to Spider-Man. Now he'd have a responsibility to his students and seeing they have an education. So what's more important, making sure he does his job or going off to fight Ock when he knows that there are other heroes who can get there faster and deal with him just as well?

 

[Broccoli]

So what does Peter do when Doc Ock starts tearing up downtown in the middle of class? Call for nap time and hope no-one notices him duck out the window? Freelance photographer is a great job for a super-hero. You work on your own time, with no-one, and accountable to no-one.

Same thing he did when he was a teacher's assistant at ESU teaching classes and stuff.

"Impromptu field trip everyone!"

 

[ClayinCA]

They need to bring back Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen. And I don't mean the recent serious toned one-shots. I mean I want to see Jimmy on a monthly basis get into some strange, over-the-top adventure that involves him getting transformed, or tricking Superman, or dressing like a woman. It can be out of continuity for all I care.

That would be an excellent 'Johnny DC' comic, I think...I'd read it!

 

[BlackestPanther]

Unfortunately comicbooks seems content to cater to an aging, selfish fanbase that are intent in dragging their childhood characters into adulthood leaving nothing for the next generation. That's given us a 30-something, married Spider-Man who eats the eyeball of an enemy.

I think you have that backwards. Morlun ate Spider-Man's eyeball.

 

[Nerys Myk]

That's given us a 30-something, married Spider-Man

Uh, there's something wrong with a superhero who is married and 30 years old?

Heck, I wouldn't have minded if they kept him as a Schoolteacher. That photographer thing is so overdone...

The fact that all of these photos of Spider-Man crime scenes are all taken by Peter Parker and yet nobody ever figures out that Peter is Spidey is almost as lame as Clark Kent keeping a secret ID through the use of glasses. The school teacher thing was a much beter idea.

Suspension of disbelief. Try not ot overthink things.

 

[Anwar]

Unfortunately comicbooks seems content to cater to an aging, selfish fanbase that are intent in dragging their childhood characters into adulthood leaving nothing for the next generation. That's given us a 30-something, married Spider-Man who eats the eyeball of an enemy.

I think you have that backwards. Morlun ate Spider-Man's eyeball.

Yeah, then the semi-zombie Spider-Man ate Morlun alive.

 

[O'Dib]

Speaking of re-imagining origins, I'm waiting for Spidey to get bitten by an alien spider, next!

 

[coolghoul]

^LOL. Does he still have organic webshooters post-OMD?

 

[Mr Light]

No, he's back to mechanical web shooters.