the death of capt stacy in asm has a very blunt soap opera quality to it. but the aftermath is proving interesting, intuiting that political tragedy creates a vacuum for domination, and that fascism relies on extreme narrativization and aestheticization of tragedy (panels from ASM 91)
the metaphor is extremely flimsy. if spider-man is this synecdoche that anticipates nyc’s crime wave, then wtf are they even saying. but you have to read old school spider-man as this ultra-malleable empty signifier of the atomized working class, and then you will also develop a perverse sunk cost fascination for old spider-man comics
@wasnotwhynot I think just these panels make it clear there's a real worldview churning under the surface here, I don't think you oughta feel bad for engaging closely with it
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