Peter Parker/Spider-Man Appreciation 2023.

[Matt Rat]

And all is right with the world! I like the reference to Spencer's run there at the end, nice touch!

Most kind, thanks. I think MJ's speech is a little too strongly laced with cheese, but hey, it's the 90s!

[CaptainUniverse]

Most kind, thanks. I think MJ's speech is a little too strongly laced with cheese, but hey, it's the 90s!

Hey, a little cheese never hurt nobody, and besides...its not any cheesier than something you might see on a television show from around that period (i.e., Full House, etc.) Ah...the 90's, a simpler time...at least it was for me.

[Huntsman Spider]

The Adventures Will Continue.

Most kind, thanks. I think MJ's speech is a little too strongly laced with cheese, but hey, it's the 90s!

Very beautiful ending there. And yes, as CaptainUniverse put it, a little cheese never hurt anyone . . . except the lactose-intolerant.

[CaptainUniverse]

Um...hmm...I think I figured out what Peter did. It's all coming together now. Iron Man 2020's wife and kid are the key. I mean...it looks really similar, doesn't it?

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[Batman Begins 2005]

I'm hoping this thread grows as the year goes on. Sometimes I think the main character gets taken for granted vs those that need bigging up more. Other characters wouldn't be around were it not for Peter Parker/Spider-Man.

[Jman27]

pretty sure many series goes through this where the discussion of the side characters are more than the main character

[Matt Rat]

pretty sure many series goes through this where the discussion of the side characters are more than the main character

When the main character never changes. what is there to discuss about them?

[Hypestyle]

can someone at least attempt to soft-retcon Peter as having some flirtation with a "geek-friendly" high school club like science club, chess club, math club, art/design club, etc.? In retrospect it doesn't make the utmost sense that he'd totally avoid all of that and regularly attempt to ingratiate himself to Flash's jock-centric social circle.

[Huntsman Spider]

can someone at least attempt to soft-retcon Peter as having some flirtation with a "geek-friendly" high school club like science club, chess club, math club, art/design club, etc.? In retrospect it doesn't make the utmost sense that he'd totally avoid all of that and regularly attempt to ingratiate himself to Flash's jock-centric social circle.

I think Dan Slott tried that in his "Learning to Crawl" side story published alongside the first five issues of ASM following Superior Spider-Man, exploring what Peter was doing between the end of Amazing Fantasy #15 and the very first ASM #1, but it didn't turn out so well in the end.

[Frontier]

I think Dan Slott tried that in his "Learning to Crawl" side story published alongside the first five issues of ASM following Superior Spider-Man, exploring what Peter was doing between the end of Amazing Fantasy #15 and the very first ASM #1, but it didn't turn out so well in the end.

It did give us a firm age though .

[Vegan]

can someone at least attempt to soft-retcon Peter as having some flirtation with a "geek-friendly" high school club like science club, chess club, math club, art/design club, etc.? In retrospect it doesn't make the utmost sense that he'd totally avoid all of that and regularly attempt to ingratiate himself to Flash's jock-centric social circle.

Isn’t his high school confirmed to be pretty small and poor? My school didn’t really have any of that in a meaningful way, but I’m kind of from the backwoods. It being a school in New York, even a small one, maybe it would still have all that

[Matt Rat]

Interesting choice of character for Spidey.

Any 90s kid will tell you Goofy's a dad.

[Huntsman Spider]

Isn’t his high school confirmed to be pretty small and poor? My school didn’t really have any of that in a meaningful way, but I’m kind of from the backwoods. It being a school in New York, even a small one, maybe it would still have all that

By the time he came back there to teach at the beginning of the JMS run, yeah, it definitely looked like it had seen better days. Given that it was also (likely) meant to be commentary on then-contemporary disinvestment in American public education, it made a certain degree of sense.

Interesting choice of character for Spidey.

Any 90s kid will tell you Goofy's a dad.

Oh, yeah.

[Vegeta]

Interesting choice of character for Spidey.

Any 90s kid will tell you Goofy's a dad.

The Disney "New Avengers" homage has Donald as Spidey and Goofy as Iron Man. (With his temper you'd think Donald would be Logan. So I don't think a lot of real thought goes into these covers.)

[CaptainUniverse]

I could see this happening...if Peter got the powers when it was fizzling out of control during the 2005 Captain Universe: Universal Heroes event.