There have always been several things that felt wrong to me about Peter Parker/Spider-Man--from the very first time I was exposed to the character as a little kid. One of those things was that Pete was a photo-journalist not because it was his calling, but simply because he could make money from the gig to pay for other things. As a working class kid this felt wrong to me. Taking photos for a big city newspaper surely is not an easy job to get--that's the kind of job they just don't hand out to random kids off the street. And it wasn't even what he really wanted to do with his life--his belly aching about the job made it all the more insulting. So he was just slumming as a photo-journalist because he really wanted to be a scientist. Another annoying aspect of the Peter Parker character added to all the other things that got my goat. He was the Ted Mosby of comic book super-heroes.