PETER PARKER(1610) AND PETER PARKER (616)
The Midtown High school paper club, Oliver's high school friend group!
Gwen Stacy is club president/editor-in-chief. She's the only reason their paper ever makes it to print.
Oliver Octavius covers technology, local government, and current events. It's an excuse to stay informed (and do some snooping).
Peter Parker does photography (the school paper gets the shots the Bugle rejects) and sportswriting (he drew the short straw).
Harry Osborn covers arts/entertainment, but claims he's just there for the snacks (even though he's the one who brings the snacks.)
MJ Watson is their only consistent reader, and her long, opinionated reader letters fill so much space she might as well be a contributor.
Flash Thompson goes to the same school, but isn't part of the friend group until college.
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Styling Percy
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For him it’s baggy jeans and hoodies all day, every day. He doesn’t think too much about his over-all style, but naturally leans to more subdued colours like grey, black and blue. He grew up poverty-stricken, so he takes care of all his clothes and wears them until they thread up and the soles fall off. Also, brand names, like North Face, Carhartt and so on, are valuable to him.
In winter you won’t find him without his comically large puffer. Under it are often wool pullovers instead of the characteristic hoodies, because Sally thinks he looks cute in knit.
Summer and the heat are his death; Just like Annabeth he likes to opt for jorts, but sticks to his tees, however in the New York heat he sometimes simply wishes he could just strip off his skin. He’s got an uncanny collection of band tees that he likes to show off. Every blue moon you’ll catch him in an overall, but in a “cool, edgy and totally not cute” way (it’s actually fairly cute).
His shoes are nothing but sneakers in different variations in tedious colours like white and black. Only exception are his blue converse he got to impress Annabeth (and thank the gods she noticed and made a joke about them matching). Still, his sneakers are holy and anyone who dares to taint them will suffer!!1!1
He doesn’t own a lot of suits, but I imagine the few to be a little playful, cause he’d feel too stiff in a standard black tuxedo. Velvet jacket, oversized fit or not wearing a shirt underneath would be options to loosen up the formalness; obviously besides his signature colours blue and sea green
As for accessories, he’s not a huge fan of bags and only has one backpack, so he likes to carry his necessities (car and house keys, earphones) on a carabiner. Due to the dislikes of bags, he also has mostly biiiig pocketed pants. I think his chb necklace would be similar in style to that of damon albarn, he’d totally emulate his favourite musicians regarding stuff like that. OH ALSO!! He has an ear piercing. No discussion. A piratey lobe piercing. Period.
Let's look briefly at the Coffee Bean in Spider-Man comics!
Contrary to popular memory, Peter's college pals initially met up at a diner called the Silver Spoon (ASM 44, but also 46, 52, possibly 125).
The spread at the top of this post takes a lot from this place's layout. But as newcomer MJ might have pointed out, diners are so fifties. The modern teen needed someplace cooler and edgier to hang out. Somewhere more underground. Literally.
Maps place The Coffee Bean alternately in East Village or Tribeca. The beret and glasses? The lowercase Dante's Inferno quote? The wall-hung guitar? So hipster. Wait, wrong decade. So beatnik.
The OG Bean didn't show up much more frequently than the Silver Spoon (ASM 53, 59, and 82, most notably), but it's the one that stuck in the cultural imagination. I enjoy Tim Sale's take in Spider-Man: Blue with the unfinished basement look and cult film posters.
In early modern flashbacks, the location is plagued by a specific continuity problem: "then [character] leaps through the WINDOW!" from new writers who missed the fact that it's below ground. In ASM Annual '96, JRSr complies by raising the ceiling a level!
The Sensational Spider-Man Annual's approach to the Coffee Bean makes me a bit sad. Dialogue repeatedly emphasizes its unique character and long history and how well MJ knows the place. But it's drawn aboveground and totally generic. (This from an issue with a dozen Silver Age panels directly traced!)
It's not the first time that happens, but here feels like a critical failure of show-don't-tell. The eventual window smash is worth it, but... I'd argue this would work better set at the Silver Spoon (where MJ actually met the gang, old in an uncool way, aboveground) instead.
Brand New Day reestablishes a solid sense of place for the Coffee Bean. Brick and glass entryway, a logo that's less beatnik and more Starbuck, and an interior that reminds me of a Panera Bread.
(If it's supposed to be canon that the new more corporate look is due to renovations by Harry, that's been lost in the shuffle. But it would make sense to me. His effort at impressing Norman with a plan to make the Bean a chain store circa ASM 569 would extend his trend of editorializing his own memories.)
While it still teleports between Astor Place and Tribeca, this version has now had more consistent (and just more) appearances than the original. And, of course, it has a beautiful bank of windows to—
Ah, that's more like it.
The Coffee Bean has become a symbol of innocent nostalgia and a happier past. It was also (as designed by Romita Sr) a virtual bunker: not until 1977 would superheroics be written to take place inside the Coffee Bean. (ASM Annual #11—Romita Jr's first ever penciling job on Spider-Man, interestingly.)
As a silver age icon, the location was physically safe and interruption-free in a way that even Peter's apartments and Aunt May's house couldn't be. The architecture—and how it's changed—has been a large part of that symbolism, underappreciated as it sometimes is.
TIM DRAKE WENT ON A DATE WITH A DUDE THIS IS A CODE GAY THIS IS NOT A DRILL
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so Peter was a bio chem major in 616
a physics major in the Rami verse ?
I don't think he went to college in the web verse
bio chem in both spider verse universes
getting his GED for an unknown major in the mcu but probably engineering of some kind
BUT DOES ANYONE ELSE THINK MECHANICAL ENGINEERING WITH AN UNDERGRAD IM JOURNALISM WOULD BE MUCH MUCH BETTER ??? PLEASE TELL ME IM NOT THE ONLY ONE OR YOUR OWN PERSONAL OPINIONS
Cryptid sighting
Text:
Tim: …I can explain
Jason: Then explain
Tim: I can’t actually explain
Jason: Then why did you say you could
Tim: I didn’t think you’d take me up on it
Jason: Why are you in my house
-X
mine is ptipi
I’m back from the milk store