Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man gets community justice right
Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man star Hudson Thames left many eyebrows raised last week after his comments about fearing the Disney Plus series would be aannoying and woke.a During a subsequent Reddit AMA, series creator Jeff Trammell was quick to start doing damage control, and he insisted that Thames had misspoken. But even in its most charitable interpretation, Thamesa statement was pretty odd considering how being annoying and constantly vigilant about injustice are kind of Spider-Manas whole schtick.
We may never know exactly what Thames meant or whether his feelings could have been expressed more thoughtfully. But whatas funny about the entire situation is how Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is, in fact, one of those awokea shows youare always hearing culturally conservative types harp on about. It celebrates multiculturalism by treating diversity as a simple fact of the world Peter Parker exists in. And the seriesas awokenessa is honestly one of the best things about it.
Thereas a lot of the Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man series that rings familiar if youave spent time reading Marvelas comics or watched any of the studioas …