Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Spider-Man on the Huffington Post

An article on Spider-Man's recent unemployment was posted today on the Huffington Post with some quotes from Joe Quesada on how this happened and how this status is going to affect him.

I always find it kind of funny when events in comic book universes make the news, like all the hubbub that occurred when Captain America died. I assume most of these readers or viewers don't actually follow the comics. So do they actually care about hearing things like this presented as news? I'm also vaguely curious about what other sorts of events have made the news in the past. Did Spider-Man's unmasking during the Civil War make the news? What about the Hulk declaring war on all the heroes? The near extinction of mutants during the House of M?

Still, I could see it as a little bit disheartening that a fictional character losing his job is making the news as opposed to stories about real people who are actually unemployed.

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