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watched ITSV for the first time in forever so heres some screenshots of noir being beaten up from yours truly

and he was acting like he was tough shit...

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I forgot you guys want me to post art. Oops. heres this old drawing I did at work on receipt paper

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I made it cooler/finished it

alt versions

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And a Miles and a Gwen

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what're your fave parts of peni's comics so far if you had to choose?

HELLO RYIN. Good question! My answer leans more towards the Spiderverse 5 issue, but I made sure to get as many points from Spidergeddon 2 as well. Equality. Even if I like 5 better. This has Images so I'm putting it under the cut due to length.

Starting with 5 for some vague chronologicality, I really love Mysterio, which I didn't expect first time through as he's.. a massive creep, frankly. I think its mainly that he feels realistically lame and surface-level; he wants to be known, wants fear, but he goes down in a single hit. For all his talk, and his intelligence, he's just.. a guy. Also, this panel. It looks neat. They should give SP//DR more arms.

Same comic issue, fantastic back to back shots comparing Peni, SP//DR, and this universe's Daredevil;

I really love how it gives so much contrast. Peni is a kid in that suit, and through her conversation with Daredevil here, you can tell how much she wishes she knew her father, and thusly, how great (and illusive) a figure she's living up to - the SP//DR is greater than anything in her life, and any people. Even the coworkers that knew the previous pilot loom over her, not that they really knew him.

I have more I love about this issue, but these were the best visual examples that wouldn't take as many words. Moving on to 2;

M.O.R.B.I.U.S. I'm very confused what this thing is, but I respect a vampire spider kaiju where I see it. Goddamn. A note for design on the next appearing (and main for this issue) villain, I love how this particular panel conveys a sort of restraint or pain to VEN#M's movements;

Even with May and Addy assumedly dead or near-dead at this point, what's left of their will is trying to stop it from hurting her. It makes me curious how much a pilot imprints on its mech's consciousness, even when the brain and body is gone. It's unfortunate we didn't get too much lore on what this thing is, or what happens of it - unless I'm missing comics.

The final detail I like from 5 is Uncle Ben and the continued characterization of him and her Aunt never quite getting Peni, nor seeming to remember her preferences of food (the other instance in 2 being that she's going vegetarian).

While I'm sad that she clearly got so few pages to tell any sort of story, I'm very curious of the relationships (or lack thereof) they build between her and her guardians - its all work, business, the next mission, therefore they can't really find anything to connect with her over that isn't work and expectations. Of course they can't! Both are bound to the program that snatched her up to fill the space they had when the program killed her dad. She's not so much human as she is a worker, a cog, so human connections in this environment are.. stiffled. All of them seem lonelier for it. It's compelling in the scraps of moments they put aside to show it.

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If Noir Peter was interested in physics (but assumedly couldn't afford the education), do you think he's learned a bit by perhaps listening to Peni explain how her own world's tech works and asking questions?

She gives a simpler answer the first time he asks how her newest dimension-hopping addition for SP//DR works, but he keeps questioning about various things with more careful and specific wording, and then it's months of this, and she's chatting with him about things beyond even Miles' time. Pete doesn't get a lot of it, but she's moved on quickly from "The sky is blue because it just is" type explanations - because she respects his curiosity.

She digs up his birthday with the combined effort of a few other spider people and some Investigative Work and gives him a few starter physics textbooks from her own time as a gift.

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I think Miles G., Gwen n Peni should all play pokemon together on their DSs. Thoughts?

I feel I only know Peni enough to supply more specific headcanons o7 She collects old consoles and gets pirated versions of games to go with, and even if her DS is doubtlessly suped up for higher performance w/ future tech, she either has the expected 'Hyper competant competitive-level strategized team' or 'I wanted to experience the game the way it was Meant To, so this is my lv50 Peliper I found cute and kept with me'. She gets trashed by Gwen's team and brings out the big guns to wage war after.

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I think The SP//DR's residual memories of her Father as its pilot is going to save her when she isn't fast enough to dodge one day. It moves on instinct the way it used to. She's going to be alive - terrified, but alive - and then furious, too. You're here for me now, but you aren't, because this isn't you. Why couldn't you have been there for me when I was little?

Why is this the only way I know you?

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For a while, Peni attempted to keep up appearances of her pre-canon more chipper self by using a voice modulator built into her suit. Send post

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peni would be an invader zim kinda girl

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do you think the public he/hims sp//dr because of the storied career of his previous pilot (peni's father). and perhaps there's some gender fuckery about this with peni

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Every goddamn time I think about (comic) Peni and (comic) Noir Pete I go. Damn you guys could be perfect foils in a universe where you guys had a crossover that actually cared about your source material. Like. Okay.

Your father dies as he'd lived your entire life, distant and acclaimed - the pilot of the SP//DR. Product of an inherently abusive system, you're set up next, arguably without your consent, to fill his boots once they hose the blood off of his mech. You inherently uphold the society that left you an orphan, the violence that meant he was never home to make you dinner up until his untimely death. You will continue this job, probably until, jaded and tired and too young for this, you will make your last mistake. You just want to be loved, perhaps, and everything you know is a part of this program.

Or, your Uncle dies as he'd lived your entire life, defying the system because he cares far too much to sit on his ass - a man who would gladly risk his life if just to pave the way for other workers' rights. You fill his boots as further defiance to this, and even wearing the visage of a war he hated to have taken part in, you direct the violence it symbolizes right back at the society that made that war - you demand society change, or you will die trying. You can't sit by and watch everything you know continue to burn without a fight.

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what are we thinking of the new haircut.

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★ meet my watchdog ★

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Can't really tell by the lack of identifying features on the armor

I eat them because they are fucking chicken nuggets moment

Meme originally from YouTube about venom but I made it about these two idiots.

Khaji-da doesn't pay rent 😔

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yes i am still obsessed with him thanks for asking :)

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i miss spider-man noir. where are you peter benjamin parker. come back to me