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Henry Gilbert Profile picture
@hEnereyG
Dec 8, 2021 • 8 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Thinking about how Spider-Man 2 is about Peter Parker being desperately poor & Aunt May failing to stop the bank from foreclosing on her home, and that MCU is about Peter happily inheriting a billionaire’s fortune & Aunt May became a well-paid philanthropist
Spider-Man 2 is obviously a giant money making venture just like No Way Home, I guess I just think it’s quaint when a superhero movie at least made the heroes struggle financially instead of living in the very rich world of endless charity galas that film producers know better
I had this problem with some Spider-Man comics since like 2005, but I really don’t like Peter Parker looking up to Tony Stark. Even worse in MCU where Stark becomes a father figure essentially replacing Uncle Ben, it’s like replacing George Bailey with Elon Musk
If you like this, I say lots of stuff just like it on the weekly @TalkSimpsonsPod podcasts I cohost!

Here are good ones specifically on Spider-Man:

Spider-Man '94 whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-cartoon…

Amazing Friends whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-cartoon…

Into The Spider-Verse: whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/-a-preview-of-…
Hah, I’m now finding out that some people think Peter Parker isn’t well-off in a movie where he’s gifted a trillion dollar drone program, billions in tech-centric costumes, and free Quinjet rides wherever he wants. Or they think MCU May works for FEAST which isn’t in the movie
Aunt May in FFH works an office job with the mega corporation Salvation Army that regularly gets $500k donations. That shouldn’t be confused with her work in FEAST in the PS4 game where she actually does direct charity with the unhoused. This is in the movie, dummies
Tom Holland as Peter Parker literally runs a Silicon Valley startup called WEB that sells Spider Bots in Disneyland! You can enjoy MCU Spider-Man, but why lie to yourself that he’s still a middle class kid from Queens?
If you like this tweet, I cohost tons of @TalkSimpsonsPod podcasts where I share Spider-Man opinions!

Check ‘em out:

Spider-Man '94 whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-cartoon…

Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/what-a-cartoon…

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse whatacartoonfeed.libsyn.com/-a-preview-of-…

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Jan 14, 2023
I wanna add that:

1. I’ve watched the show since the pilot first aired and I swear the most recent season (7) might’ve been their best ever

2. If you love VB, Ken Plume’s art book on the series is *essential* reading. Amazing research telling the stories of how it was made
TBH the whole series is great, but season 6 & 7 found fresh territory in a show that already had such amazing stories. They moved everyone to basically the Manhattan of Marvel Comics, and revealed stuff they’d been building too since the pilot! It’s incredible!
I’ve literally read thousands of Spider-Man comics & seen every cartoon/film adapting it. No show parodies the original Silver Age comics better than #VentureBros (particularly Peter Parker’s internal monologue and interactions with Flash Thompson). I want a Brown Widow spinoff!
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Jan 14, 2023
Now I’ve watched Velma and I do want to reiterate what I tweeted a couple days ago: The animation team really deserves more (any) recognition in reviews and press releases that focus exclusively on the famous people involved. The animation crew did a good job with the project!
I see cool artists I know from lots of different shows and/or Twitter. And I think Supervising Director Anne Walker Farrell deserves recognition for heading it up. Walker Farrell has lots of neat credits, including some of my favorite BoJack episodes, like this one:
A problem for animated shows that are fronted by famous people who don’t draw anything is the artists who make the show even possible get lost in all the hoopla. If you watch Velma, please take your time to pause the credits and look up the directors, designers, boarders, etc
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Dec 8, 2021
Love to spend shitloads of money on health insurance to then come with receipts for those take home tests months later at some undefined time to maybe fill out a form and then get paid back in some third form much later. So much better than just getting a free test
And I of course count myself as a lucky enough American to afford the awful health insurance that even gives me “access” to a very complicated rebate for the take home tests I had to visit three different pharmacies to even get ahold of. So great to live here
This whole thread by Psaki is the typical neoliberal combo attack:

1. Snidely scoff at the idea that the government could possibly ever give direct help without means testing

2. List the many needlessly complex ways one might get government help as if it’s incredibly simple
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Dec 6, 2021
Another patented #PsakiBomb! Everybody should pay $25 for their take home tests and like it!
I know this is a Person We're Supposed To Like, but the proud condescension in Psaki's smug "Should we just send one to every American? How much does that cost and what happens after that?" is exactly why lots of people aren't excited to vote for Democrats
The Democratic strategy of "you need to feel guilty about this problem and fuck off if you think the government should lose money fixing it for you" isn't the most popular messaging
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Feb 5, 2019
Patreon has made my dream career possible, it has been great, but insightful threads like this speak to potentially the company’s greatest enemy: Silicon Valley’s bottomless hunger for exponentially increasing profits over a sustainable business model
Patreon hosts the content of others to then collect 5% of their income for themselves. As more and more people hear about the site and join to support the people they like, Patreon’s profits increase year-over-year, a growing sustainable business which will make people rich
But it won’t make people super rich, which is the whole point of venture capital investments in Silicon Valley. Aaron Sorkin is an old hack but Social Network’s “A million dollars isn't cool, you know what's cool? A billion dollars,” perfectly sums up the Silicon Valley mindset
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