See? The dick jokes write themselves in his canon! Also, at one point, he had to explain how cooperative magic works - and he used the following example:
"Look, just imagine dicks, okay? With one dick, you're just jerking yourself off, but with three dicks, suddenly you've got six people having sex. Which is more powerful? "
So, yeah. Dick jokes. It's a thing. Expect more.
Still, tho. Gwen and Norman isn't that much better? It's still- oh gross. Because Peter would be too old? He's SPIDER-MAN! It's not like he's going to end up decrepit because he's 40. But yeah, some writers can make or break a story. Personally, I just love the stories that deconstruct the tropes? Like Red Son? Astro City? Irredeemable? Watchmen?
Irredeemable (deconstruction of Superman, kind of), has a line about a friend of the Plutonian asking him - "what does it feel like to be you?" (mean, to be special, to save the day, to be super) and a few years later, when the Plutonian snaps, he puts the friend in the middle of a flash-flood, with thousands of people in danger. Men, women, children, all just waiting to die from exposure or drowning. He puts his friend down in the middle and says: "Choose ten." Of course the friend argues, pleads- "Just the kids, then! Please!" And the Plutonian goes: "This is what it feels like to be me - now Choose. Ten." The friend picks ten, going "There! Happy now?" and the Plutonian sets the rest of the people he didn't pick on fire.
I love shit like that.
Well, to be fair to them, comicbook fans have been willing to eat a lot of shit before, so. Maybe they just thought they would keep doing it.
HE DOES NOT HAVE THIS LIFE SKILL!! HE IS NOT SKILLED AT LIFE IN ANY WAY, SHAPE or FORM!
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"Look, just imagine dicks, okay? With one dick, you're just jerking yourself off, but with three dicks, suddenly you've got six people having sex. Which is more powerful? "
So, yeah. Dick jokes. It's a thing. Expect more.
Still, tho. Gwen and Norman isn't that much better? It's still- oh gross. Because Peter would be too old? He's SPIDER-MAN! It's not like he's going to end up decrepit because he's 40. But yeah, some writers can make or break a story. Personally, I just love the stories that deconstruct the tropes? Like Red Son? Astro City? Irredeemable? Watchmen?
Irredeemable (deconstruction of Superman, kind of), has a line about a friend of the Plutonian asking him - "what does it feel like to be you?" (mean, to be special, to save the day, to be super) and a few years later, when the Plutonian snaps, he puts the friend in the middle of a flash-flood, with thousands of people in danger. Men, women, children, all just waiting to die from exposure or drowning. He puts his friend down in the middle and says: "Choose ten." Of course the friend argues, pleads- "Just the kids, then! Please!" And the Plutonian goes: "This is what it feels like to be me - now Choose. Ten." The friend picks ten, going "There! Happy now?" and the Plutonian sets the rest of the people he didn't pick on fire.
I love shit like that.
Well, to be fair to them, comicbook fans have been willing to eat a lot of shit before, so. Maybe they just thought they would keep doing it.
HE DOES NOT HAVE THIS LIFE SKILL!! HE IS NOT SKILLED AT LIFE IN ANY WAY, SHAPE or FORM!
... they really should!