Do the right thing, and man the heck up.”Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. If this is Bendis’s stand-in for creator-rights, the underlying message is clearly “Man up, wimps. He sounds petty, and vindictive, and when Spider-Man asks why he doesn’t try to help anyone with his creation, he responds with child-like rage.
While the reader feels sympathy for Shocker’s hopeless plight, and for the way his employer stole from his talent, he’s ultimately an unlikable character here. Regardless, I find it interesting that the speech comes from Shocker, a joke of a villain inevitably put down by Spider-Man. They hate us because we are that which they know they will never be.Īgain, hard to say if this is Bendis railing against his corporate benefactors in a moment of frustration (maybe they wouldn’t let him actually kill anyone in Secret Invasion?), or if it’s simply the modern creator’s call to honor disrespected genius of the past. Why? Because they hate those of us who are creative. Shocker: They – They take those who are creative or – or imaginative, who have a vision for the future, and they steal from them and then they destroy them.
Bendis (as far as I can tell he’s been treated pretty well – with very good reason – by Big Brother Marvel), but Shocker’s sentiments very clearly echo the sentiments modern day creators might feel looking back at the likes of Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Steve Gerber, etc. Now, I can’t say how much of this is really personal for Mr. The below panel is from Ultimate Spider-Man #122 after Shocker, a running joke of a villain throughout USM, captures and tortures Spidey.
The most recent example came during my epic immersion into Ultimate Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis (with Mark Bagley and now Stuart Immonen on art duties). Maybe it’s because I just finished reading Sean Howe’s Marvel Comics: The Untold Storybut I can’t help but spot loads of creator-rights issues in comics these days.
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