The "Spider-Man as a teenager" schtick I think greatly undervalues the character. There are so many zany comics and cartoons about teens leading secret lives, and having to get to school at the same time! What made Spider-Man so compelling and stand out from the rest to so many people wasn't that he had to keep it a secret from Aunt May or whatever, it was the enormous burden Peter constantly placed on himself by being Spider-Man - which especially in later issues made him a constant loser, never being able to get his life as Peter on track. It kept him from graduating college properly. It kept him from having a love life for so long. He was always behind on rent at his ****** apartment because being Spider-Man necessitated living on the relatively expensive top floor, and he could never get a good job because being Spider-Man took away all of his time - so he had to constantly resort to vilifying himself by supplying Jameson with Spidey pics. Every victory as Spidey resulted in some loss for Peter with few exceptions. This is an aspect that Spider-Man 2 in particular captured very well, and I wish more movies/TV shows would focus on it more instead of the very uninteresting high school setting.
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Originally Posted by LeotheLateBloomer
The newspaper comic strips and the 90s were my introduction to Spidey.
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The newspaper strips are... they're weird, man. The storyline right now is that Aunt May's boyfriend, the Mole Man, has been deposed by an immortal Roman emperor, and the monsters have turned against Mole Man now.