{"id":23694,"date":"2024-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=23694"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:41:25","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T20:41:25","slug":"ppsm-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2024\/11\/19\/ppsm-35\/","title":{"rendered":"PPSM 35"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I don\u2019t even\u2026 The boy\u2019s bug eyes. Spider-Man\u2019s entire misshapen, deformed body. The enormous amout of wasted space in the image. I cannot. This issue opens with that little boy coming home from school, and I have a feeling it\u2019s going to make me uncomfortable\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If there\u2019s one thing I enjoy, it\u2019s definitely not white people doing stereotypical stuff about marginalized people of color. Yer on thin ice, Jenkins. The boy goes to his room and gets out his Spider-Man trading card, which begins his fantasy sequence about being Spider-Man\u2019s secret sidekick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next day at school, everyone\u2019s drawing, and this kid is drawing about his fictionalized homelife. Hillllllariously, Buckingham\u2019s laziness extends to the kid\u2019s crayon drawings, as the first one is a repeat of a pose from earlier, and on the next page, he cops a VERY widely circulated Romita, Sr.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Insane, this guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, our boy goes home to find a preposterously named drug dealer stereotype named \u201cDevo\u201d beating up his mom, so he retreats to his room, where his imaginary Spider-Man comes to whisk him away to crimefighting to forget the horrors happening in the living room. We cut to his Aunt & Uncle arguing with a guy from social services who doesn\u2019t care about their situation and is golfing, then to LaFronce daydreaming about fighting the Vulture with Spider-Man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Suddenly, this book becomes very confusing, as the trio return to LaFronce\u2019s place. They\u2019re all dressed the same, so I think it\u2019s the same day, but the authorities are wheeling out to corpses. And then we learn the landlord has sold all LaFronce\u2019s family\u2019s stuff, and the aunt says his mom\u2019s been dead for 2 months? What? What is the timeline here? It made me flip back to make sure I didn\u2019t skip a page or something. As the aunt argues with the landlord, LaFronce goes to his room and finds his Spider-Man card, now crumpled, but still there. So Spider-Man appears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I just remembered how this issue ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People have always said that kids love Spider-Man because he could be anyone under there. 17 years before the now famous \u201cAnyone can wear the mask\u2026\u201d motif from Into the Spider-Verse, here it is. What a grim story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t even\u2026 The boy\u2019s bug eyes. Spider-Man\u2019s entire misshapen, deformed body. The enormous amout of wasted space in the image. I cannot. This issue opens with that little boy coming home…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1864,1],"tags":[35,915,1911,1871,2,1956,1978],"class_list":["post-23694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2000s","category-uncategorized","tag-aunt-may","tag-mark-buckingham","tag-paul-jenkins","tag-peter-parker-spider-man","tag-spider-man","tag-transparency-digital","tag-wayne-faucher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23961,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23694\/revisions\/23961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}