Why is Spider-Man White? — Page 6

I checked out somewhere on page 3, now I'm just enjoying watching the implosion.

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I have said several times before that if Spiderman is to suddenly be recast as black there should be a substantive reason for it. I'm not saying anything even remotely racist and the reading of "know your place, boy" is radical and your own. Spidey can be black, or pygmy, or whatever (Peter Porker comes to mind, though not comfortably) as long as it is justified in the storytelling and not "tra la la another Spidey adventure, but I'm African American now!"

I'm, AGAIN, excited at the prospect of DonIald Glover writing a convincing reason why Spiderman should be black--in the form of a treatment, a screenplay, an off-Broadway musical--whatever it is. You do know he is a writer, yes? Started his television career writing for 30 Rock and then moved on to stand up and now is cast in Community. AGAIN, I'm a FAN of DONALD GLOVER. I'd like to see him create his own superhero if he is as driven about this as he seems to be.

I'm not comparing black people to platypi nor am I comparing Shakespeare to Stan Lee. (Although funny books are a new mythology and are as steeped in our culture as Shakespeare, arguably)

I think naysayers are reading what they want to read at this point and not what I am actually saying.

Just talked to my very black coworker Reginald and he chimes in with, "Making the comic-originated character Spiderman black at this point in the franchise would compromise the integrity of the character." Plus, he thinks it would be a commercial failure. He said all this even when I posed him with my Fringe-inspired idea of making Donald Glover Spiderman a parallel universe Peter Parker.

I don't think anyone should compare Prince of Persia to Spiderman, but if that's how you feel about it so be it.

Read some Brian Michael Bendis scribed Ultimate Spiderman and read the best the property can offer. Have any of you actually read a run of Spiderman at one point or another?

kthxbei... (oh, and I'm American and 100% not racist. Equality now!)

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See..here's the part where my brain shuts off. How does making him black...change his character...at all? As far as I know, and I think I'm actually pretty well versed in the Spiderman mythology (umm..college)there is nothing in it at all that ever references race or ethnicity. It simply would change his skin color. It would make zero difference to the mythology of Peter Parker...at all.

But now that I think more about it...if it were a "true" alternate reality than the black version of me would be arguing the opposite side of me so he would think spiderman should stay black. I think. It does get confusing...now I'm starting to see why this can't work.

Exactly...it's like saying Spiderman always has to be Tobey Macguire.

Man I would be so much more likely to actually go see THAT reboot.

For some reason it's ok in theater. I think I read that somewhere up there.

This is why I wish studios would stop giving any credence to the hardcore fanboys. It limits their creativity and they will never (as a whole) be satisfied anyway. As long as they stayed true to the spirit of the original I think most people would be happy if it was a good movie.

Isn't the tubby super hero crime-fighter happening with Seth Rogen as Green Hornet (Directed by Michel Gondry no less)?

Let's also make Storm white. And how about a Black Panther movie staring Chris Evans?