Monday, March 1, 2010

Spider-Man joins unemployment line.

From NY Post:
Even a résumé that boasts of saving the city from Doctor Octopus and sparkling references from the likes of Captain America can't keep Spider-Man off the unemployment line.

The wall-crawler's hard-luck alter ego, Peter Parker, will get canned by boss J. Jonah Jameson and join the country's out-of-work millions in a storyline that starts in this Wednesday's "Amazing Spider-Man" No. 623.

"He couldn't have lost his job at a worse time," said "Spider-Man" 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 Queens native has been jobless before -- he's been a personal assistant and teacher and has tried to get a hack license in the past couple of years -- he's always been able to fall back on freelance photography, selling shots of himself in action as Spider-Man.

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