London, March 01: Even a resume that boasts of saving the city from Doctor Octopus and sparkling references from the likes of Captain America cannot keep Spider-Man off the unemployment line.
The wall-crawler’s hard-luck alter ego, Peter Parker, will get fired by boss J. Jonah Jameson and join the country’s out-of-work millions in a storyline that starts in Amazing Spider-Man No. 623.
“He couldn’t have lost his job at a worse time,” said Marvel editor Steve Wacker.
“He’s going to struggle with unemployment and trying to save the city while he can barely afford to keep a roof over his head,” Wacker said.
While the superhero has been jobless before – he has been a personal assistant and teacher and has tried to get a press pass in the past couple of years – he has always been able to fall back on freelance photography, selling shots of himself in action as Spider-Man.
But not this time.
Parker, who had been working as a photographer for newspaper publisher-turned-mayor Jameson, gets busted for doctoring a picture to clear the wrongly accused Jameson of some illegal activity.
“It’s the old Parker luck,” said Marvel editor-in-chief Joe Quesada.
—Agencies