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Here’s a bunch of designs for my spidersona’s universe

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That was the move that made LeBron cry

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It’s the Frightful Four’s debut crime as a team and they’re rolling up in a shitty inflatable raft that can’t even hold all four of them. Great start guys.

(Not to be biased but Doc Ock would’ve never let this happen)

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The longer I sit with the ending to ASM 205, the more bummed I am about it. I can live with Cat being kind of insane, but “actually Black Cat and Spider-Man aren’t equals, Felicia is delusional and Peter pities her”? Gah. Not my favorite. I know she comes back at some point and hopefully she’ll be in a better headspace then, but wow.

…my one consolation is that Peter is probably as, if not more, disappointed by this revelation than I am lmao

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…Huh. I uh, don’t really know what to make of this. It kind of feels like this came out of nowhere? Felicia seemed more or less stable (for a Spidey villain) before this very last page, and there was nothing “childlike” about her behavior or the way she was flirting with Spider-Man either. I feel like I should be mad, but I’m honestly just confused. At least Peter is being nice and getting her help instead of calling the cops, I guess?

Bummer ending to a pretty good two issue arc.

(My personal cope headcanon is that Felicia knew exactly what her mother wanted her to do the whole time, and she just wanted to steal a bunch of shit as a last hurrah before freaking Spider-Man out so bad that he personally escorts her to the psych ward /hj)

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🤯 Whaaaat? No way! This is such an unexpected turn of events!

Jokes aside, shout out to Felicia’s framed picture of Spidey’s ass

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This is just a guess, but I think she needs your costume intact so she can incorporate it into her romantic shrine to her father. /s

She’s been calling you “love” and openly flirting with you for like 90% of the fights you’ve gotten into, why do you think her warning sounds sincere?????

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Oh Cat, no. Please don’t be doing what I think you’re doing. I’m all for grand romantic gestures but PLEASE not like this. Noooo.

Surely Peter’s gonna make some similar connections here—

Wait, her FATHER?! He thinks that Felicia stealing the Two Lovers and the Eye of Eros Diamond has something to do with her LOVE FOR HER FATHER?!

HE’S SO SERIOUS ABOUT THIS, OH MY GOD. This is next level dumb. He’s putting two and two together and getting negative six. What’s wrong with him???

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[ Image 1: A drawing of Mysterio from Spiderman from the hips up. He is standing in his costume with his hands on his hips and a plume of green smoke billowing out behind him.

Image 2: An unfinished drawing of Doctor Octopus from Spiderman from the waist up. He is posed with one arm behind him and the other held in front of him, one of his mechanical arms arched and close to him and the other lifting up Spiderman by his ankle in the background. The drawing is uncolored, and the background is a flat grey.]

Was looking around folders and realized I had stuff I hadn't finished, I'm not sure where I was going with either so here they are (also I forgot mysterio's name sorry man)

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Jonah, this is the least trustworthy man on earth. This is an adult man in 1980s America wearing spiral glasses like a mad scientist from a nintendo game. As far as you know this isn’t even a villain, he could just be a standard NYC lunatic. Cmon now, did you lose your common sense along with your memory? You’re better than this, man 😔

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I actually had to do a double take here because at first glance I thought that was Spidey jumping through a window after Black Cat, not a gigantic picture of him she has hanging on her wall. One of SEVERAL pictures of him hanging on her wall, in fact.

Girl. This is a little bit more than a scrapbook. This might be unhealthy.

(Also, adding “private angry outbursts” and “allergic to explaining their intentions to friends and/or potential allies” to the Peter/Felicia parallels list)

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OH MY GOD? RUNNING THE DAILY BUGLE JUST DOES THIS TO PEOPLE???

Holy shit, they NEED to give us a flashback to what pre editor-in-chief Jonah was like. I’ll even take present day Jonah being totally mellowed out and chill after getting fired. Please Wolfman, I’ll do anything!

…or we could do this. That’s fine too. Okay.

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Woah, hey! She was telling the truth about keeping a Spidey scrapbook back in #194.

Neat callback!

Just for fun, up to this point the parallels between Felicia and Peter are:

-Themed around “unlucky” or widely disliked animals

-Gets around the city using parkour/gymnastics/acrobatics/whatever you wanna call it

-Lean, stealth-focused builds and fighting style

-Similar poses and moves

-Uses jokes, quips, and tricks to distract or fluster their enemies (most importantly, PETER FLIRTS TOO, it just doesn’t get taken as seriously by the writers or other characters because he’s usually fighting other men)

-Actions are inspired by a father figure who died at some point during their origin story

And now,

-Takes pictures of Spider-Man

I wonder how far they’re gonna push these parallels? Even if they don’t do much with them besides “Black Cat is evil female Peter and therefore they are love interests” in this run, I hope there’s some Spider-content out there that capitalizes on their similarities. I think they’d be interesting foils even if they weren’t romantically involved!

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NOOOOOO NEW YORK EAST COAST BOY DON’T EVEN JOKE ABOUT MOVING WEST! TBE DRY CLIMATE WILL KILL YOU IT’S NOT WORTH IT

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HA, less than 10 issues later and she’s back! I knew she wasn’t dea—

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…You know what? Maybe she did drown. Either that or she needs to throw away this foundation.

And get some sleep, I guess?