{"id":1165,"date":"2016-05-13T17:58:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/2016\/05\/13\/civil-war-delivers-a-happy-reunion\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T17:58:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T17:58:42","slug":"civil-war-delivers-a-happy-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westhoffpws.com\/jeffreywesthoff\/2016\/05\/13\/civil-war-delivers-a-happy-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War delivers a happy reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/65.media.tumblr.com\/31d283677f86b3f4cdbc7715442ac2a1\/tumblr_inline_o74n3ywNoX1sqr9zc_540.jpg?w=700\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Watching <i>Captain America: Civil War<\/i> I honestly broke down during the scene where Peter Parker tries to explain why he uses his powers to help people. I haven&rsquo;t cracked like that since, well, since the end of <i>The Peanuts Movie<\/i>. And I tried to process why the scene was hitting me so hard.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, I have loved Spider-Man since I was a little kid and when I actually started reading the comics I realized the reason I loved Spider-Man was that he was Peter Parker and, except for the super powers\/secret life thing, Peter Parker was exactly like me, which is the reason millions of others readers grew so attached to Spidey.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>I stopped reading the Spider-Man comic books with the &ldquo;One More Day&rdquo; fiasco. Marvel honcho Joe Queseda was so desperate to end Peter\u2019s marriage to Mary Jane Watson that he engineered a story where Spidey makes a deal with the devil to erase his marriage from history. You read that correctly: a deal with the devil. It was obvious Marvel didn&rsquo;t value old-time fans like me any more. I hear good things about the current Spider-Man writer, Dan Slott, but I just can&rsquo;t go back. To me, the comic-book Spidey was broken in a way that can never be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>At least I still had the movies, right? After the glories of <i>Spider-Man 2<\/i>, they couldn&rsquo;t possibly screw up the movies, no sirree. I hadn&rsquo;t counted on the wrecking ball in a suit known as Avi &ldquo;More Villains!&rdquo; Arad. The misfire of <i>Spider-Man 3<\/i> was compounded by the godawful twin monstrosity of the the Marc Webb\/Andrew Garfield reboot that I hate to the very core of my soul. Even the news that Marvel had scored the movie rights to Spider-Man didn&rsquo;t cheer me much because I figured that the cinematic Spider-Man had also been broken in a way that can never be fixed and another reboot would just compound the damage.<\/p>\n<p>And out of nowhere, in the middle of someone else&rsquo;s movie, this new kid Tom Holland starts saying exactly the sort of things Peter Parker should be saying (even if he sounds <i>waaaaaaaay <\/i>too much like Marty McFly), and I just started blubbering.<\/p>\n<p>I thought Spider-Man was lost to me. I got Spider-Man back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Captain America: Civil War I honestly broke down during the scene where Peter Parker tries to explain why he uses his powers to help people. I haven&rsquo;t cracked like that since, well, since the end of The Peanuts Movie. And I tried to process why the scene was hitting me so hard. 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