Spider-Man's alter ego to lose his job

[Cmndr J Crichton]

Can't ol' pal Tony Stark give him a job headlining applied sciences at Stark Industries? What about the Fantastic Four giving him a job as an annalist at The Baxter Building? I know he'd have to move, but what about Professor X? Can't he give him a job as a teacher in The School for the Gifted? Seems like a natural mix. Parker has more options than you think. He's already revealed his identity to Stark. That wouldn't be a problem. I'm sure Richards, and Xavier would employ him regardless of his double identity.

Keep in mind, I haven't read the Brand New Day series, so I don't know if that affected the Civil War series. Didn't JJJ fire Peter then, and SUE him for fraud? It seems like Marvel is creating hype out of nothing.

Now if they really wanna shake things up, have a mini series where in the very last issue, Mary Jane Parker reveals she's pregnant. You could then wonder a whole year or more, if the child will be normal, or will Peter's mutation affect his kid, which is has been a worry of Peter's. You have a storyline there that could stretch over 3 years! And this is the best that the suits at Marvel could come up with? Frankly, I'm disappointed.

Hey, how about a Punisher story where he runs out of Ammo. He somehow can't get to any through the course of 12 issues! How about an X-Men story where it all takes place in the class room. The bell rings, the X-Men go of to an adventure and the issue ends.

This kind of story should not make national headlines. It's definitely not Brand New Day, or Civil War worthy idea. Now if a villain causes Parker's firing and he spends the next year or so proving his innocence, then it's worth a look.

 

[Trent Roman]

Can't ol' pal Tony Stark give him a job headlining applied sciences at Stark Industries?

Parker did work for Stark for a while prior to Civil War. I believe he, MJ and Aunt May were even living in Stark Tower. (It didn't work out.)

What about the Fantastic Four giving him a job as an annalist at The Baxter Building?

Seems rather obscure, but I suppose with all the devices Reed's invented one must allow people to view the past in order to make detailed records of Roman history.



Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Myasishchev]

The CSI angle is being done with Barry Allen, who worked in forensics before it was cool, when his series launches in April.

And on the other side of the comics industry, DC is perfectly willing to rehash the Silver Age as well. Growth is bad. So it turns out.

I wish Hal Jordan would die again, too.

"Millionaire" isn't what it used to be, so Bruce Wayne is now a billionaire. Not sure when that happened.

When Bruce Wayne's net worth topped $1,000,000,000, probably.

 

[Anwar]

Teacher or even CSI guy seem wrong for Superheroes. Mostly because jobs were you punch a clock or file reports don't give the flexability of say: Millionaire playboy, award winning reporter, wealthy scientist or freelance photographer.

It was never a problem the other times Peter was teaching, like at ESU or Midtown.

So did he ever bail on a class to go fight crime? Or did he wait till lunch or recess? How did the writers get around the fact he had a place he had to be 5 days a week fom 8am to 3pm? (Probably earlier and later than that) Most jobs where you walk off the job or miss several days you wind up fired.

As a Midtown teacher, he did most of his crimefighting after school hours (makes sense, a lot of regular crime happens at night) and before work started. Kids did wonder why he came to school with bandages all the time.

No, the stories focused on him either averting disasters at school or helping out the kids that ended up involved in gangs or supervillain stuff with the occasional super-villain battle when he wasn't working. Good stuff really.

 

[Nerys Myk]

[CraigyFerg]Marvel Cares[/CraigyFerg]

 

[Bad Bishop]

I wish Hal Jordan would die again, too.

Ouch. But I'm betting you'll see the movie.

 

[gastrof]

"Millionaire" isn't what it used to be, so Bruce Wayne is now a billionaire. Not sure when that happened.

Probably at the same time as one of the unmentioned recalibrations of modern hero characters' dates of birth so they remain the same age year after year.

 

[Captain Craig]

And on the other side of the comics industry, DC is perfectly willing to rehash the Silver Age as well. Growth is bad. So it turns out.

I wish Hal Jordan would die again, too.

Yes, DC seems very self absorbed in that era. I see it has a large amount of hubris for them to want to recreate a sandbox and say 'we can do it better' when those stories and characters developed in that era were fine as they were.

Nothing character development wise has been done that wasn't done before. Blackest Night still could've happened without Hal.

I wish fandom had embraced him as Spectre more cause that was a role with growth as a character. Hal back alive as GL is like Jay Leno back on Tonight. Ok, its mostly good but I feel like I'm seeing reruns at the same time. Same for Hal...more Carol drama, more arguing with Guardians etc, been there had those issues.

 

[Myasishchev]

I wish Hal Jordan would die again, too.

Ouch. But I'm betting you'll see the movie.

Sure. I have deep reservations, but they don't arise from Hal Jordan himself. I don't dislike the character. It's just that he had his arc. He was a hero (for like thirty years' worth of extremely ineffectual space-policing), he lost Coast City, he went crazy, he went evil, he redeemed himself, and in the process died.

I wasn't particularly thrilled even when he was just the Spectre. Interestingly, in some respects he was to Jim Corrigan what a lot of people said Kyle Rayner was to him.

Also, "Parallax" and "Ion" are pretty lame concepts (but at least Parallax looks cool; the energy-form or whatever of "Ion" looks retarded, I mean literally so, like a particularly listless and stupid whale shark), and although used to good effect in Johns' GL mythos, still feel like cheating.

Also, the fact that there are four human (American! male!) Green Lanterns is something of an annoyance, as well.

Ultimately, I wish they'd let Hal stay dead and let Kyle be the focus.

Yes, DC seems very self absorbed in that era. I see it has a large amount of hubris for them to want to recreate a sandbox and say 'we can do it better' when those stories and characters developed in that era were fine as they were.

Nothing character development wise has been done that wasn't done before. Blackest Night still could've happened without Hal.

Indeed. And without Hal wangsting over his previous failures, which are necessary because the elephant in the room is that this fucker destroyed the Green Lantern Corps. But they're also pretty clearly designed as part of the Everybody Will Love Hal Again Show.

Oh, and the hell with Ollie too.

DC's strength used to be its legacy characters... hell, Barry Allen is a legacy character. Hal Jordan is a legacy character.

They might as well have had Alan Scott fighting Sinestro and zombies. You know, that might've actually been pretty cool, and at least he was still alive and explicably immortal.

P.S.: Apropos of nothing--I wish Superboy-Prime had stayed in the GL domain of the DCU. He was actually pretty decent in the SCW (although the SPB Sinestro Corps book had somewhat of an "Crap, we forgot" feel regarding SPB working with the Anti-Monitor). He also, I think, would have been an obvious candidate for the founder of the Red Lanterns. We might have been able to avoid him "killing" Monarch "to death," as well.

I think SBP has been just a tremendously mishandled character; he has a very good, very sympathetic antagonist motivation. But of course it's easier to turn him into a one-note joke devoid of any personality but super-petulance. <_<