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Another super journalist shocker!

SPIDER MAN IS FLYING THROUGH THE AIR ON HIS WEBSTREAMS, HE SEEMS TO BE FOLLOWING A THUG.

THE THUG CLOSES IN ON A LITTLE OLD LADY

SPIDERMAN SWINGS STRAIGHT PAST THE THUG AND LITTLE OLD LADY
(THE THUG IS MUGGING THE OLD LADY AT GUN POINT)

SPIDER MAN SWINGS INTO "The Glandtastic Phwoor! Adult Cinema"

SCENE2

PETER PARKER IS STANDING SHAMEFACED IN J JONAH JAMESON'S OFFICE WHO HE IS TALKING TO.

J JONAH
Now this is the kind of superhero story Rupert Murdoch wants to see!

CLOSE IN ON THE NEWSPAPER ON THE DESK
TITLE READS
"Spider man homo cinema wank shame!"

There's a good childishly funny idea in there, just a bit thrown off by where the story came from? Has Parker submitted it himself or someone else who's seen him swing into the cinema?

If I may offer a line?

JAMESON
(Gruff)
Homo-Cinema? Why would Spiderman
do such a thing!?

PARKER
(Head Down)
...Because, deep down he hates himself.

Peter Parker makes all of his money from taking photos of Spiderman fighting crime.

And if News International took over his paper, the only photos they'd want would be sordid and horrible ones of Spiderman.

Ah, get ya 100%, the subtlety was lost on me first time around. Makes perfect and funny sense when I read as doing scandals for scandals' sake to get work. Didn't pick up enough on the glaringly explicit ref to Murdoch. I just thought he was gay.

I'm dumber than I care to acknowledge. D'oh!

Good thing your pretty isn't it?

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