New Brevoort Formspring

>Five decades of stories tell us that Spider-Man tends to work best as a coming-of-age superhero genre character. Working in a genre means playing toward, against, or with certain tropes; in Spider-Man’s case, these tropes include the secret identity and the individual hero shouldering responsibility alone. Police and soldier stories operate in a different genre, with different tropes.

Writing Spider-Man in the genre in which he works best does not imply a commentary on policing, the military, individual police officers or soldiers, or even police and military genres; it only reflects a recognition of the demonstrated most effective way to tell Spider-Man stories.>

Yes, exactly.