Spiderman Novel

[Analisa Wisdom]

Comicsbecame a lifeline as I approached my teenage years. Spider-Man lived with the consequences of bad decisions he made. To be in physical danger because of bad decisions, because of the burden of guilt, because of the need to hide your true self, that was me as a teenager.

I lived in fear of being beaten up. Not because there was any real threat of someone knocking me out, but because I was a teenager and I wore my outsider status like a brick wall I was always on the verge of getting shoved against. Comics allowed me stillness, escapism, a world where quiet nerds like me could make a difference.

My first, terrible attempts at writing were synopses for Spider-Man arcs that were yet to be written. Thankfully, such juvenilia no longer exists, because when I moved out of home with my girlfriend at 22, I decided I could no longer have ties to such childishness. I threw it all away. I think back to what those issues taught me about storytelling, how they gave me the tools to pace, to ensure that dialogue is punchy, exciting, realistic and not overwritten.

The biggest thing comics taught me about writing was that bad writing involved characters explaining the plot to each other. Good writing showed you the plot. Writing those synopses, in a brown exercise book, I honed these skills.

I wrote Peter Parker into my school. I made his antagonists my own. I made Mary-Jane a girl he got the train with. I resituated his battles with Sandman and the Vulture in North West London. Peter Parker became a cypher for me. Spider-Man became the best possible version of myself.

Being a writer was the furthest thing from what my dad wanted me to be. He was desperate for me to take over the family business and expand it. Our small family business, importing gift-wrapping paper from abroad and selling it to high street retailers, was a homespun affair. In tandem with my homework, my mother and I would sit in front of the television, watching sitcoms like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air while folding reams of gift-wrapping paper to the correct size for the correct retailer. Start at the bottom and you will then understand every level of the business for when you take it over, my dad thought. He probably also liked my sister and I for the cheap labor. He sat on the other side of the room, listening to ABBA records, a whisky in hand, thinking, strategizing. We watched television with subtitles on.

Most Sundays, I went with him to the warehouse to pack orders. While they took breaks, I was expected to do my homework, time I saw as an opportunity to find comfortable boxes to slouch on, and read comics. They were my dirty secret.

Years later, my mum was in hospital, diagnosed with lung cancer. About a fortnight before she died, I came to visit her and dad and to give her a finished copy of my first novel. She held it in her hands and looked at me

The effects of the school-to-prison are insidious and very visible throughout the course of the novel and they mirror the real-life inequality that plagues Black and Latino students and leads to a world where over 60 percent of people currently incarcerated are Black or Latino, given heavier sentences and punishments for crimes that white criminals often walk away from with a slap on the wrist.

He romanticized the antebellum South, praised the prison system for keeping slavery alive, and actively worked to dehumanize two Black students under his charge. His goal, and the goal of the other Mr. Chamberlains that have made flooding the school-to-prison pipeline their game, is to enslave Black people in the 21st century.

Award-winning author Jason Reynolds returns with a sequel to his young adult novel Miles Morales: Spider-Man. This one is called Miles Morales Suspended, and it continues the adventures of an "unassuming, everyday kid who just so happens to be Spider-Man."

Just because it doesn't touch your doorstep doesn't mean it doesn't touch anybody's doorstep. And it's not until it lands on your doorstep, right? When it lands on your doorstep, that would be the equivalent of that spider's web ... suddenly we're forced to acknowledge a thing that seems to be lurking in the shadows for some, and crawling up the wall for others. This whole book is sort of full of these entendres and sort of parallels with what's happening in Miles's world and what's happening in the world at large.

I don't want to shy away from the fact that it is a response, but I wish it weren't. But when it came time to write this book, the only thing that I could think about was what's happening when it comes to censorship and banning and challenging of the books that so many of us write for young people. Specifically, for a lot of us, it doesn't always feel like you're banning the book itself. Sometimes it feels like you're banning the people that those books are about, that you're saying that those lives are lives that should only exist in the shadows.

This idea of discovery, I think, has the highest sort of boiling point of potential for young people and is also the apex of fear for another set of people. For the folks, they who shall not be named ... some of these politicians, some of the terrified parents. I do think there is something to be questioned about: What's the fear of discovery? Why is everyone so afraid that a young person might discover something that feels true to them, that feels right to them, and that in making that discovery right, once they get even close to making that discovery, there is punishment enacted.

This isn't a new thing, right? Once there is a new thing that is discovered, what comes your way is backlash, especially if at the end of that new thing is more freedom, more equity, more peace, more intellectual capacity, more emotional maturity, more openness, more scrutiny when it comes to the things that we're supposed to see as real and honest and true.

This idea that there is darkness, right? That fear is a villain. That if we can't get power, get out of our own way or get past our own stuff, then we'll create stuff that our young people can't get past. We'll put blockades there because the blockade makes it safer for me, who's also dealing with the same blockade. And I think all of those things are what creates that darkness in this story, but also in our society.

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The novel starts with a prologue that takes place in an unnamed cemetery where three liquored boys, Tyler, Keith, and Daniel drive a Corvette carelessly among the graves. Suddenly, a cocoon-like structure stops the speeding car and shakes the vehicle enough to scare the pranksters away. A figure clad in red and blue with a stylized spider pattern emerges from the darkness and visits an important gravesite that the boys almost trampled.

Fourteen years later, Peter has to chase down his bus for a Friday field trip after realizing that his neighbor and love interest, Mary Jane Watson, had given him the wrong time. The bus finally slows down at MJ's request and Peter takes a seat in the back. Meanwhile, Peter's best friend and study partner, Harry Osborn, rides to the field trip at Columbia University in a chauffeur-driven Bentley with his father, Norman Osborn. Harry meets Peter outside the Columbia Genetic Research and they take the tour of the facility. While Peter is taking pictures for the school paper, a radioactive spider drops down from the ceiling and takes a bite of Peter's hand.

So there I was, watching an entertaining playthrough of Hatoful Boyfriend, when suddenly a thought occurred to me. Spider-Man is a teenage character with a complicated enough love life to qualify for his own Harem Anime. Therefore, what if he were to be given his own Dating Sim? A game where you play as Peter Parker navigating New York's High School and the Daily Bugle, choosing which lovely teen girl to pursue a relationship with, and then having to balance dating against the demands of battling larger-than-life super villains. Might find a way to mix in some combat for that last one; I'm thinking maybe letting the player go through options to determine how the scripted fight scene plays out.

Now, it should be noted that I know very little about the vast realm of the Visual Novel. I've only played a couple before, both of which were non-profit amateur works for, um...a bit of a niche market. Still, for the purpose of these hypotheticals, I was hoping I could pair my deep understanding and affection for the Spider-Man franchise with someone else's deep understanding and affection for the art of the Visual Novel, and the two would balance each other out to create the ideal storyedited 22nd Aug '16 12:05:56 PM by LizardOfAus

A type of visual novels you may find interest in is Telltale games. They are working on Batman at the moment. They have puzzles and actions, but so far there is no harem (unless Batman has Talia/Bruce/Selina triangle).

You might benefit by writing a Spiritual Adaptation instead of outright basing your work on Marvel's intellectual property. I recommend this because you can't sell fan fiction / fan games, and thus it's not easy to devote free time to creating them. Furthermore, a number of work-in-progress fan games have been canceled before release because of a cease and desist notification.

You can use free software such as Ren'py to create a visual novel. The community can provide support if you have any issues. There are other free and inexpensive options if you search for "visual novel engine."

Be careful with the scope of your fictional universe. Scope creep is one cause of Orphaned Series or Vaporware. Don't commit to creating features unless you believe they are necessary. Likewise, only create as many characters and locations as you need.

Also, while I wouldn't use "superheroic" to describe it, Sakura Wars So Long My Love is kind of similar to what you described. Its main character is part of a secret task force. He can walk around town and interact with people. The team fights a group of villains.

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