My first job was in a comic book shop. I write about superheroes most every day of the week at work.<\/p>\n
Some would find this surprising, knowing how little of Marvel Comics’ output I read (right now, just Thor<\/i>, and I’m planning on dropping that soon), but my favorite childhood superhero was Spider-Man. Not Superman or Batman. Not Iron Man or the Incredible Hulk. But Spider-Man.<\/p>\n
My affection wasn’t for the comic books, though I remember that I had a few Spider-Man<\/i> comics over the years. I remember, in a very vague way, the Nicholas Hammond television show. The thing that really got me interested in Spider-Man was the 1967 Spider-Man<\/i> cartoon, which aired in repeats on a local television station when I was small. And, a few years later, of course, Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure when Spider-Man fell out of favor with me, but when I really<\/i> got into comics in high school, Spider-Man wasn’t something that I would even look<\/i> at. It just didn’t interest me.<\/p>\n
Even now, I don’t actively dislike Spider-Man, despite a series of critical tweets yesterday that questioned the logic of the premise<\/a> of Spider-Man and even suggested what Peter Parker should really<\/i> have done<\/a>. When it comes to Spider-Man, I’m just… indifferent. Even the Sam Raimi films are just… okay<\/i> to me.<\/p>\n Which amuses me to no end. My favorite superhero growing up, and I have no interest in him now. Maybe I outgrew Spider-Man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I suppose it was inevitable that my life would end up surrounded by superheroes. My first job was in a comic book shop. I write about superheroes most every day of the week at work. Some would find this surprising, knowing how little of Marvel Comics’ output I read (right now, just Thor, and I’mContinue reading “On My Childhood Superhero”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4092,157,162],"class_list":["post-5555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-comic-books","tag-marvel-comics","tag-spider-man","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}