Thread by @spacetwinks

okay now that i'm back at my computer, some off the cuff thoughts about spider-verse that'll also inevitably show up in an entirely too long full piece

what really hits me is how it exemplifies so much in remixing - it has no interest in 'true accuracy' cuz that'd be v. bad here

my thoughts on miles' original run and the actual spider-verse event are not exactly hidden - the former, like a lotta bendis stuff, has ideas that never go anywhere, just constantly putting in filler to stall for time. latter? discombobulated event crap to milk wallets

what spider-verse does instead is grab at the ideas in these two series - and in so much other spider history - remixes, and re*focuses* them. spider-verse is a roughly 2 hour movie - it's not a solo serial comic or mega crossover event. it *has* to focus.

so where bendis would throw out a concept and spend god knows how many issues to go anywhere with it, and spider-verse the comic and events in general are just "IT'LL NEVER BE THE SAME!" cash grabs, spider-verse the movie has to, by virtue of its limits, focus itself down.

bendis books have *concepts*, but rarely execution on them till the last minute. events have *moments* - that are entirely shock crap, not engineered with story themes in mind, but just whatever'll get a reaction right now. cheap shit.

so spider-verse the movie has, by its limits (and by having a different creative team, and also by not being under the editorial thumb of marvel comics), a clarity of focus, an actual direction with its story, actual *themes* it wants to explore and satisfy, remixed from source.

it remixes the original miles morales ultimate run into something that actually goes somewhere (and that somewhere isn't all about pete), it remixes spider-verse into having a purpose for the story beyond "look at all these spider-people!", and it remixes more spidey material.

for example, when i saw that *SPOILER WARNING*
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peter in miles' universe had blonde hair and b. parker had brown hair, i couldn't stop thinking about the clone saga and the very ideas it had there forever ago about how being spider-man isn't about being peter parker.

it sees all this raw potential in these flawed comics - flawed from anything from the writers to themselves to the direct market business model, and son and so forth - it takes the ideas in them and remixes 'em all together into something better, something coherent and confident.

anyway it's really fucking good and i'll write a lot more about it later.

it's just the thing i think of, that sticks out to me - people seeing that movie will think "wow, i wanna read the comics that inspired this!" and i'm just shaking my head.

wait, one more bit - i was super impressed with how the trailers sold me a completely different structured movie than the one i actually got in the theater. usually this would be a "pbbt, damn trailers", but no, this was super smart, effective stuff.

the movie i thought i was gonna get was more "miles becomes a spider-person of his own right already and THEN a big thing happens and everybody comes together and it's all about multiverse crap", but the structure and pacing were perfectly focused back primarily onto miles.

it would've been entirely too easy for this to be nothing but a fanservice mess crowded out by too many multi-dimensional shenanigans, but it kept tightly focused on miles and used everything else in the movie to *reinforce* miles, making for a much better movie.

a lot of this was thanks to that aforementioned confidence - they didn't feel obligated to get bogged down into the nitty gritty of every character. by being willing to make the cast all regular cliffs' noted supporting characters for miles' story, it's much stronger.