Parker’s peter sparks Spider-Man controversy
There is some uproar over Spider-Man: Reign, a new comic book series about the iconic wallcrawler that is darker and more “grown-up” than previous versions (similar to the approach Frank Miller used for Batman in the much-loved The Dark Knight Returns series). The uproar isn’t over the series’ depiction of Peter Parker as a broken-down, unhappy old widower, but over one panel from the first issue that shows the webslinger’s alter-ego sitting in bed, genitalia exposed. (Picture at link below.)
Predictably, this has many book retailers in the U.S. in a stir. Publisher Marvel Comics says the panel is in there by mistake and that, in any case, it’s “just a shadow.” They have promised to print a new, bowdlerized edition.
We can just imagine the front page of The Daily Bugle: “Spider-wang a Menace to Morality!”
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