Good points all, which I'll respond to in further detail later. I just
wanted to point out that--
Martin Phipps wrote:
> Now maybe Romita didn't want Parker to be an
> inherently unlikable character. Maybe he wanted
I think, with all due respect to Mr. Romita, when Ditko left, it became
very much Stan's character again. With Ditko aboard, I think there was
a lot of tension between Lee and Ditko's interpetations of the
character-- the darker aspects, I think, edging towards the Ditko side
of the equation.
> Parker to grow up. Or maybe Lee softened Parker up
> when he graduated from high school: you can't be in a
People often bring this up as an explanation, but the fact is, Parker
was at his _meanest_ during the fifteen or sixteen months he was first
in college-- during the Ditko run.
I certainly think Parker matured, and it wasn't gradual; really, it's
an almost instant thing, and the turning point is right where Romita
takes over the run, with the Green Goblin unmasked storyline. Maybe it
was this event that caused the ****ft in Parker's attitudes; Norman was
the ultimate anti-social scientist.
People also often say that Romita mimicked Ditko's style earlier on; I
don't see that at all, personally. Romita's Peter is much more
romantic, and the Goblin is much goofier looking, much less scary than
in Ditko.
On the other hand, the Osborns themselves do look similiar to Ditko's
interpetation; of course, you can't really do much with that bizarre
hair.
> All the above assumes of course that Spiderman being
> an angry young man is a bad thing and it wasn't clear
> from the video whether or not you thought it was a bad
> thing, a good thing or if you were just indifferent to it.
> But, anyway, this is my take on why he was ****trayed
> as angry in the first place.
I think it's an interesting thing, and the tension between wanting to
act responsibly and his first impulse (to act rashly and in anger) is
very dramatic and a part of that long maturation process.
I just kinda wish it didn't end so abruptly; as someone pointed on the
Ditko Yahoo Group, Ditko's really good at long-term character
development and it'd be nice to see where his Parker would have ended
up.
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> Martin
==Tom
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