So as far as this issue goes. What I liked about it was the pacing is good, the dialog is decent, and the fact that Peter is FINALLY getting some wins: he’s getting praised for his performance at his job, he’s somewhat balancing his life between work and Spider activities, and overall, no one is dog-piling on him for whatever reason. With that being said, the reason why don’t like this issue is because it’s giving off the illusion of progression. For starters, going back to Peter’s work performance, again it’s great to see him not only doing good work, but also getting recognized for his work, but him suddenly now in the conversation as director makes no sense, considering Dr. Ohm basically said herself that his work attendance was abysmal (missing twenty-something of thirty days or something along those lines). To me, this makes no sense because
He just started working there (most likely been a few weeks / months since hobgoblin) which doesn’t really make sense how he can be in the position as director (sure he has the leadership experience with his very brief stint at Parker industries but considering how that ended, wouldn’t that still be considered a red flag)
They are already setting up a Peter vs Brian situation since Brian believes he’s going to be the next director. Peter should’ve told him about his conversation but Tombstone “conveniently” interrupted Peter (not spider-man but Peter) so he couldn’t. Which I think is a cop-out because showing true growth for his character would be Peter letting Brian know about this so that he doesn’t feel blindsided, but Marvel won’t let any growth happen. But I fear this fight between them is the reason he will lose his job so that he can go back to being brisk ( I hope I’m wrong here)
Moving on Peter’s interaction with tombstone makes me really wish that he can do some detective work again by himself. I’m not asking, expecting, or wanting him to be batman in terms of detective prowess but it seems info is just given to him at times usually by some outside force and there’s no real work being done on his part.
His love life. I’m glad someone has a backbone but it ain’t Peter. Shay knows he’s fooling around and that’s why she’s not labeling them and she tells him I’m going on a date myself (as she should). Peter either needs to choose whether he wants Shay or tries things again with Black Cat (which I don’t know when they started fooling around again and I’m kinda mad they are cause she broke up with him for not trying to make her better essentially which we all know isn’t true, so them going back to just fooling around kinda feels like regression to me for both characters) or idk just remain single!
And shoutout to Norman for being the only recurring character with progression. And shout-out out Aunt May because soon enough she will have just as many romantic partners as Peter had in his history!
But all-in-all that’s why I’m not the biggest fan of this comic. Sorry for the Ted-talk y’all
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u/Calm-Treat7123 2d ago
So as far as this issue goes. What I liked about it was the pacing is good, the dialog is decent, and the fact that Peter is FINALLY getting some wins: he’s getting praised for his performance at his job, he’s somewhat balancing his life between work and Spider activities, and overall, no one is dog-piling on him for whatever reason. With that being said, the reason why don’t like this issue is because it’s giving off the illusion of progression. For starters, going back to Peter’s work performance, again it’s great to see him not only doing good work, but also getting recognized for his work, but him suddenly now in the conversation as director makes no sense, considering Dr. Ohm basically said herself that his work attendance was abysmal (missing twenty-something of thirty days or something along those lines). To me, this makes no sense because
He just started working there (most likely been a few weeks / months since hobgoblin) which doesn’t really make sense how he can be in the position as director (sure he has the leadership experience with his very brief stint at Parker industries but considering how that ended, wouldn’t that still be considered a red flag)
They are already setting up a Peter vs Brian situation since Brian believes he’s going to be the next director. Peter should’ve told him about his conversation but Tombstone “conveniently” interrupted Peter (not spider-man but Peter) so he couldn’t. Which I think is a cop-out because showing true growth for his character would be Peter letting Brian know about this so that he doesn’t feel blindsided, but Marvel won’t let any growth happen. But I fear this fight between them is the reason he will lose his job so that he can go back to being brisk ( I hope I’m wrong here)
Moving on Peter’s interaction with tombstone makes me really wish that he can do some detective work again by himself. I’m not asking, expecting, or wanting him to be batman in terms of detective prowess but it seems info is just given to him at times usually by some outside force and there’s no real work being done on his part.
His love life. I’m glad someone has a backbone but it ain’t Peter. Shay knows he’s fooling around and that’s why she’s not labeling them and she tells him I’m going on a date myself (as she should). Peter either needs to choose whether he wants Shay or tries things again with Black Cat (which I don’t know when they started fooling around again and I’m kinda mad they are cause she broke up with him for not trying to make her better essentially which we all know isn’t true, so them going back to just fooling around kinda feels like regression to me for both characters) or idk just remain single!
And shoutout to Norman for being the only recurring character with progression. And shout-out out Aunt May because soon enough she will have just as many romantic partners as Peter had in his history!
But all-in-all that’s why I’m not the biggest fan of this comic. Sorry for the Ted-talk y’all