Just finished reading ASM 532. I'm not going to spoil anything but wow, didn't expect Spidey to be going this direction and I hope it's not headed where it looks like it's headed. Discuss.
the issue basically follows Pete making the difficult decision on wether he should go into hiding or stand by Tony Stark and unmask to the entire world. The final page has Peter standing at a podium at a press conference preparing to unmask.
Usually id think with it ending like that and the way Spidey has gone over the years that he wouldnt end up doing it, but who knows now due to the way Spidey is now written.
Well, we've known the choice is to register or not... keep the secret ID or give it to the government, which will probably leak it to CNN... Being "outed" will become a big disaster for Peter and make Spidey an example of how registration can go horribly wrong.
I've always thought he would go with registration at first, but we know he changes sides...
It would be interesting (nail-biting and nerve-racking) to see his ID become public... BUT ONLY if it is undone and returned to SECRET in the end. And we know THAT can be done in a number of ways.
I think some of us posters saw something like this was going to happen weeks ago, so I'm not too surprised over the idea that
Spider-Man may unmask in front the world
. That being said however, I do think that while this could open up interesting story ideas in the beginning, in the long term, it would be disastrous for Spidey as a character.
Also, there is the slight possibility that this is all one big tease. What if JMS, Joe Q, and Marvel know that we think that
Spidey will unmask during Civil War and then, just when we think he will, he actually doesn't? What if he, just as he's about to unmask, realizes "Wait a minute? Doesn't S.H.I.E.L.D. already know who I am? Technically, my ID is already on file? So what would they have to gain by having me unmask in front of all these cameras? They've already got what they wanted. And how come Tony hasn't publicly revealed his identity? I get it. They just what somebody to make an example of, somebody they can use as a poster boy by saying, 'Hey, if a menace like Spider-Man can unmask before everybody, then so can the other heroes.'" Well, no thanks." And as a result, he pretty much , in the immortal words of Cartman "Screw you guys. I'm going home" and takes off, meaning that the "War at Home" arc is NOT about Spidey being on the registration side but rather his being a fugative and not actually taking a side?
Isn't he supposed to be the "everyman?" Well what better position for that than for him
to not take a side, or to say "a pox on both your houses?"
And after all, remember the preview pages from Civil War Frontline? Spidey tells the female reporter (I forget her name, that
"They don't know who I am,"
or words to that effect. And since it's supposed to come out after the Stamford explosion, then perhaps
Spidey's identity is still intact?
However, there is a possibility that
this scene takes place before the unmasking so who knows?
But, then I could be wrong, and Marvel, in an attempt to make Civil War have an "impact" will have
Spidey unmask
. Then again,
why did it end on a cliffhanger rather than just having Spidey unmask right then and there?
Well, we've known the choice is to register or not... keep the secret ID or give it to the government, which will probably leak it to CNN... Being "outed" will become a big disaster for Peter and make Spidey an example of how registration can go horribly wrong.
I've always thought he would go with registration at first, but we know he changes sides...
It would be interesting (nail-biting and nerve-racking) to see his ID become public... BUT ONLY if it is undone and returned to SECRET in the end. And we know THAT can be done in a number of ways.
The thing is that some people will refuse to believe it.
Can you just imagine JJJ freaking out over having Peter masquerade as Spider-Man (first done in ASM #12)? He'd think that the stinkin' wall-crawler put Peter up to it to protect his own skin in this registration thing and probably convinced Peter for doing it due to all the cash he's made of him via pics & the book "Webs" over the years.
It's a very crtitical time for Marvel, and this Civil War could mark a return to greatness, or simply spiral everything further into the john.
I picked up the issue earlier today, and I have to say, I do not like where this is going, it's dwelling dangerously close to one of my comic ten comandments
As we expect? It'll go one of two ways: He'll whip the mask off, or he'll keep it on. The only thing I could see stopping this is some surprise riot or villain appearance which stops him from unmasking.
Stillanerd I think you might be on to something there and I've been wondering about the Frontline issue and as to where it actually takes place. There is a chance that it could very well take place after 532 in that he doesnt' unmask but at the last moment decides not. Realizing that while he wants to support Tony this is just to much for him and then runs. Which could lead him going to the reporter and talking to her on his terms as a way of trying to combat the fallout of his pulling out at the last minute.
If this ends in the cliffhanger of him about to take his mask off, it could go either way. So far we've seen Peter support Tony in his mission. We've seen Peter already give the blood oath in previous issues. The train of thought going into this would be that he's going to do it since everything points to it. We know he switches sides but what if there really isn't two sides in the matter but actually three.
There could be the Pro side, the Against side, and those that want no part f either side and just want to help and not get caught in the middle but end up the enemy of both.
Seems like an obvious question would be, why not just register with the government and naively hope the secret ID doesn't get leaked? I mean, we do have undercover agents and spys... WHY blurt it out in a press conference?! THAT makes no sense.
Seems like an obvious question would be, why not just register with the government and naively hope the secret ID doesn't get leaked? I mean, we do have undercover agents and spys... WHY blurt it out in a press conference?! THAT makes no sense.
Well I believe the answer to that question goes back to the theory I posted earlier: that Spider-Man being forced to unmask at a press conference for the entire world to see is to make an example out of him and other heroes, were supporters of SHR can spin it to say, "See, if a menace like Spidey can unmask himself, then so can the other heroes who are considered more trustworthy." After all, thanks to Agent Hill sicking her S.H.I.E.L.D. psychic on Spidey in New Avengers #19, that organization already has knowledge that Peter Parker is Spider-Man and then some. I once thought Hill could use that information to blackmail Spidey into registering, but now I wonder if she is incapable of releasing that information publicly. Not only would congress, the press, and the public question the validity of such information, it might potentially expose S.H.I.E.L.D. and how they really operate to the world at large, which would be a disaster if it was somehow leaked that S.H.I.E.L.D. violated constitutional rights via "psychic interogation." Why, in the public's eyes, they would be no better than the superbeings the government wants registered. And remember, Stark did give a "possible scenario" of "Spider-Man being used as an example" to the Illumminati didn't he?
I picked up the issue earlier today, and I have to say, I do not like where this is going, it's dwelling dangerously close to one of my comic ten comandments
Well....this isn't going to be pretty....either way. I'm going to have to read this one in the comic shop this week. Hopefully the next issue won't go where we think it's going.Then again, we tried to be hopeful through Sins Past....we tried to be hopeful through the Other....I'll not be fooled a third time. I'm still not going to buy this issue or the one after it. Also, this quote by JMS pretty much confirms me fears, or at least alludes to what will happen, thus confirming my fears:
JMS said:
Oh one thing that I forgot to mention in regards to what people should keep their eyes open for - Amazing #533 - at some point, the cover on that issue is going to change. The one that is out there currently is not the actual cover. It will change, and it will be quite startling.
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