{"id":4387,"date":"2012-06-27T18:50:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2012-06-27T18:50:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-27T18:50:35","slug":"spider-man-to-get-a-sidekick-comicbook-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/spider-man-to-get-a-sidekick-comicbook-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man To Get a Sidekick | ComicBook.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The \u201cAlpha\u201d teaser that Marvel released two weeks ago has already been paid off. This morning, Marvel gave Fox News the scoop that Alpha will be the name of a new character introduced in the pages of Spider-Man: A sidekick for the webhead whose story \u201cwill pay homage\u201d to Spider-Man\u2019s own, so that just in time for the character\u2019s fiftieth anniversary, he\u2019ll get to play Uncle Ben to a young hero.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of it is that Spider-Man is grown up,\u201d Axel Alonso, editor-in-chief of Marvel Entertainment, told Fox Nation. \u201cHe\u2019s older, more seasoned, but young at heart. He\u2019s still a young man, but he\u2019s been around. It\u2019s interesting because it flips the paradigm. Teen hero Spider-Man is now responsible for this teen hero sidekick. He\u2019s responsible because one of his inventions caused this kid to get his powers. He\u2019s directly responsible for the responsibility this kid now has with his new powers. He feels he has a responsibility to make sure this kid walks the right path, which won\u2019t prove easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the trend for the last several years has been away from giving characters sidekicks, the Batman and Robin\/Captain America and Bucky dynamic remains one of the defining ones in superhero storytelling, and the introduction of Alpha might be a way to try and grab hold of some of the younger readers who publishers always hope will wander into a comic book store after a movie hits (The Amazing Spider-Man is in theaters on July 3). Either way, series writer Dan Slott is identifying Alpha not as a tragic character (like Robin, for instance, or like you might expect from a character whose origin mirrors Spider-Man\u2019s), but a source of fun for the readers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf you put Spider-Man and Batman in the same situation, you\u2019re going to have way more fun with Spider-Man,\u201d Slott told Fox. \u201cWith Batman, he never really screws up the way Spider-Man does; he always seems to make the right decision. But with Spider-Man, he always screws up. He\u2019s us as a superhero. Batman is a paragon of what we\u2019d like to be, but in reality, we\u2019re more like Spider-Man. He makes all the mistakes we make.\u201d<\/p>\n

One such mistake leads to the creation of Alpha; since the comics right now have Peter Parker employed as a scientist (as he will be in the forthcoming movie), the young superhero is created when a high school student on a field trip is inadvertently \u201czapped\u201d by one of Parker\u2019s machines.<\/p>\n

All of this is well and good, of course, but it will be surprising if the character sticks around for very long. Aside from the aforementioned trend away from teenage sidekicks, there\u2019s the fact that with the fiftieth anniversary connection and the callbacks to Spider-Man\u2019s tragic origin, this issue has \u201ca very special episode of The Amazing Spider-Man\u201d written all over it and it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see this character either killed or at least depowered by the end of the issue.<\/p>\n

Which would give Peter another tragic and meaningful death to wrestle with, just in time for non-readers to be introduced to Gwen Stacy for the first time.<\/p>\n

via Spider-Man To Get a Sidekick | ComicBook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u201cAlpha\u201d teaser that Marvel released two weeks ago has already been paid off. This morning, Marvel gave Fox News the scoop that Alpha will be the name of a new character introduced in the pages of Spider-Man: A sidekick for the webhead whose story \u201cwill pay homage\u201d to Spider-Man\u2019s own, so that just in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1opIU-18L","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7168,"url":"https:\/\/forbiddenpanel.com\/PanelCast\/the-superior-spider-man-joins-mighty-team\/","url_meta":{"origin":4387,"position":0},"title":"The Superior Spider-Man Joins “Mighty” Team","author":"Forbidden Panel","date":"June 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This week, Marvel Comics is rolling out the roster for a new team of heroes that will assemble during the events of Jonathan Hickman's \"Infinity.\" Led by retired Avenger Luke Cage, the new \"Mighty\" team of heroes gather together to protect Earth while the Avengers are off in space. 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