Spidey Says NO to the Occupation!

[gordonzola]

Someone did a beautiful job of creative wheatpasting last week. They covered most of a billboard ad for the new Spiderman movie with info for last Saturday's demonstration. But they left just enough of Spidey's head and arms so it looked like he could be throwing rocks instead of spinning webs. Except for that funny outfit, he could have been part of the Intifada.

He always was my favorite superhero. . .

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Okay, I'll write this for you

[(Anonymous)]

Hey really? I always thought he was really self-righteous. I mean, not as self-righteous as the boring world of DC Comics, but for Marvel he was a little too upstanding for my taste, always worrying that the time he spent bonking MJ was taking away from time with his aunt or that super-boring love-interest of his, Gwen (YES I AM DATING MYSELF!).

All he wanted to do was fight evil and why? Cos his spidey sense just annoyed him (like tooth pain) until he HAD to do it? Blah. The most interesting thing about him was his love life as Petey and, well, it just wasn't that interesting.

Of course I liked the fucked up world of the Xmen best, esp. when they got into the mutant/Other parellels (call me naïve, call me simplistic, call me Ishmael), but really my favorite was the Hulk. He HATED humanity. He was so fucking conflicted about his role as a superhero! And he felt such different and self-estranging emotions when he turned into the Hulk! (Which was similar but different to the Thing, who was also among my favorites, but for some reason I had a crush on Johnny. And how fucking pathetic is that, to be a New York Jew girl with a crush on a blond CARTOON CHARACTER?)

And really, can you see Petey throwing rocks at Israelis? He'd just whip out his camera and start snapping shots. Maybe he'd go and kick Sharon's ass, but the whole superhero idiom is about indivisualistic action, not collective resistance. Y'know?

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[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

Who's Johnny?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, WHO'S JOHNNY?

[(Anonymous)]

Jesus, didn't you learn anything as a kid? FLAME ON!!! He's the alter-ego of The Human Torch.

(And clearly while I learned good cultural values, obviously, my above spelling might indicate that all those anti-comic educators had a point about poor literacy skills and comic books.)

Re: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ANTI-COMIC?

[(Anonymous)]

Illiterage comic book readers? Feh. From http://www.ala.org/teenread/trw/

"...graphic novels rely on visual components and verbal text to communicate. Graphic novel readers have learned to understand not only print, but can also decode facial and body expressions, the symbolic meanings of certain images and postures, metaphors and similes, and other social and literary nuances teenagers are mastering as they move from childhood to maturity."

But that may also be those damned teen librarians validating their comic book habits. Really, though, who needs spelling when you can decode posture?

Re: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ANTI-COMIC?

[(Anonymous)]

OK. That was illiteraTe. Ugh.

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[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I love librarians.

Re: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ANTI-COMIC?

[(Anonymous)]

I love TEEN librarians. They read comic books (even if they keep saying "graphic novels" to gussy it up). And they're always the cutest librarians at the party, if not the cutest at the party, period.

But what about the intifada? How do teen librarians come down on the intifada??

Re: WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ANTI-COMIC?

[(Anonymous)]

The librarians I hang with tend to favor collective resistance to opressive regimes. And everybody's down with Spidey.