LOS ANGELES -- Time to dust off that resume, Spider-Man. You're fired!
Don't fret, the web-slinger will still be keeping New York City safe from the dastardly villains he's tangled with in the past. But after Wednesday, he'll have to do it between trips to the unemployment line.
That's the day Peter Parker, Spider-Man's nice guy alter-ego, hears, "You're fired" from his cranky, long-suffering boss, Mayor J. Jonah Jameson. Worse still, Jameson not only sacks Parker, who makes his living as a photojournalist, he blacklists him with every news organization in town.
This of course raises all kinds of interesting questions:
* How will Parker maintain his costumes? Dry-cleaning bills alone must run to several hundred dollars a year.
* How will he keep buying the stuff he uses to spin those industrial-strength webs needed to hop from building to building? Surely he doesn't get it from the 99 Cents Store.
* Where is his next meal coming from? Would he be reduced to spinning webs outside supermarkets and trapping shopping carts in them?
"Because we still want to sell comic books, I can't answer those questions," laughs Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, which reveals the web spinner's latest crisis in Issue No. 623.
And how did he land on the unempoyment line? You probably guessed it already: It was because of an evil villain.
Spider-Man got wind of a plot to frame Jameson and exposed it by digitally manipulating photos he'd taken as Peter Parker. Of course, to do that he had to violate journalism ethics by misrepresenting the images. Jameson, longtime publisher of the Daily Bugle, could never tolerate that.
And just why would Peter Parker/aka Spider-Man do such a thing anyway?
"Just because he has super powers doesn't mean he's perfect," says Quesada.
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