Latest spiderman is a Lesbian in a wheelchair
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It’s weird how stuck on high school this latest crop of professional writers is. It’s like that’s when the indoctrination kicked in for them, so they don’t really have any real knowledge beyond that level because it was all just identities and feelings and whatnot. In 10 years the newly minted writers will be writing about middle schoolers and elementary schoolers. Hopefully just because that’s when the indoctrination started for THEM, but probably also for other reasons I don’t like to think about.
You're not entirely incorrect but prom in western school stuff is just the festival stuff you see in anime but culturally relevant. It's the same thing, an experience most people have in junior high or high school that people can relate with but it's not just an anime thing it's a Japanese culture thing. The school sports festival is probably similarly experienced, a thing that happened when you were a kid in school but you didn't think that much of it, but you do know it's a thing that happens to almost everyone.
And they don't have the talent to make it work.
There was a project around 2 decades ago to have Batman but in a high school setting, the writers had to make it work and instead did it so it was a passing of the torch story along with a mentor role for an established character
We got this masterpiece
This is the difference in talent, you could put limitations on writers like set it in a high-school and they'd work around that to create a quality product. Now that the old talent left to do their own thing, the young blood that coasted through can't live up to their predecessors.
It's weird how often Spiderman in Highschool gets retold. The guy married Mary Jane Watson in the 70's. He could have grandkids by now if they wanted. Instead, every few years he ends up back in HS. Every cartoon retells that era, even when it makes no sense.
Marvel comic timeline is meant to move at something like a third of real time, so despite being 60 years in the running only 20 years has passed for many characters.
Except Spider-Man who has been reset more than most a few times.
And many of the X-Men characters since they can currently resurrect into bodies aged to their "prime".
Or anyone who spent time in another dimension or timeline as was the case with the Fantastic Four and Cable respectively. This is how they aged up Franklin Richards very recently a few years ago from a tween to the 16/17/18 or so he is now even though he was a toddler back on the mid 80s when hanging out with other actual kid superheros such as The Power Pack.
Problem with Spider-Man however is several upper management overruling many writers and continually resetting Peter back to bachelor status so he can dally with MJ, Felicia, a new writer's OC self insert, or whatever. So he's more screwed up than most despite never properly spending any time outside the 616 timeline as many others have.
I agree to much of this. Too many people want parker young, so he never moves on.
High school is the perfect time for a particular personality type.
Because you have most of an adult brain and body, but almost none of the responsibilities. So you are free to fight, fuck, and have fun without anyone finding it weird, but then you never have to deal with the consequences of that.
Its always been that way, and will always be that way. The only generational difference is a few decades ago college started to join it once it became "adult daycare" for most people.
It's when they stopped mentally developing.