Spider-Man’s New Suit Origins Are A Betrayal Of Peter Parker’s Ideals

Warning! Spoilers for The Amazing Spider-Man #61 below

Spider-Man has a brand-new, high-tech suit in the pages of Marvel Comics, but the suit’s origin and reasoning for accepting it feels like a weird choice for Peter Parker. In The Amazing Spider-Man #61, Peter accepts the suit from the news site, Threats and Menaces, who agree to give him the suit in exchange for access to his adventures. Peter bizarrely accepts the deal as he needs the money.

After the Kindred saga, life has returned to normal for Peter Parker. However, he’s run into some money issues, and in The Amazing Spider-Man #61 he’s turned to social media in order to pay the bills. Along with his roommate Boomerang, Peter is taking pictures of his alien creature Gog, turning him into a social media influencer. His desperation continues when he accepts a meeting from Norah Winters, who helps run the Threats and Menaces tabloid site, who just so happens to have a solution to his problems – even if it doesn’t make any sense at all.

In The Amazing Spider-Man #61 by Nick Spencer, Patrick Gleason, Edgar Delgado, and VC’s Joe Caramagna, Peter Parker is gifted a high-tech suit for his ‘friend’ Spider-Man by the Threat and Menaces organization. The suit is silver, blue and gold, and has some serious upgrades including it being faster, stronger, and even better web-shooters. There’s a catch for taking the suit, however, as it live-streams Peter’s adventures. The feed is delayed so Spider-Man can control what is shown.

After being shown how much Threats and Menaces are paying Spider-Man to wear the suit, Peter accepts the offer – but the whole thing still seems… off. Besides the confusing logic with how the site managed to build a super-suit that was impressive enough to be an upgrade for Spider-Man, accepting the deal seems like something Peter wouldn’t do. Why would he accept a corporation offering him big money in exchange to wear a certain suit? Also, why would he allow access to everyone to see his adventures – even if he has some control over it. Spider-Man doesn’t fight crime for the accolades or attention, he does it because with great power comes great responsibility.

Peter Parker getting a new, high-tech suit is cool, but all the stipulations that come with it seem to go completely against his own mindset. Money and fame have never been a driving factor for Spider-Man as a hero, so to see him allow a corporate entity some control of his heroics is pretty baffling. If Peter really needs a job so badly, there’s got to be better avenues than teaming-up with Threats and Menaces. Surely, this is going to backfire in a tremendous way when his feed is hacked, or the organization shows something they’re not supposed to. You can read more about the bold suit-change in The Amazing Spider-Man #61 which is in comic book stores now.

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