Do you remember a few years back, when Loki and Spider-Man had a team-up? There was a scene where Spidey and the God of Evil sit on a rooftop eating hot dogs. Wizard panned it as being absurd (or dumb, I can't remember which).
Personally, I don't think any magazine which names Joe Quesada it's Man of the Year for 2006 has much moral high ground to be panning other written works from, but that's a digression, and besides, I thought that Peter calmly sitting and eating hot dogs with Thor's greatest foe nicely demonstrated Peter's everyman aspects, in that he's not going to react differently around Loki than he might around say, Nova. Plus, after everything Peter's experienced, dealing with an Asgardian probably isn't any big deal. But I still wonder...
Who bought the hot dogs? Peter has no pockets in the Spidey suit, and he wasn't wearing his web pouches, which normally contained his clothes and wallet. As another digression, whatever happened to him using web pouches? Seems like it's been years since I've seen him carrying his clothes around in one.
Regardless, it's doubtful Peter had the money to purchase the food. Likewise, I can't see Loki actually buying the food, nor do I see Spidey letting him mentally manipulate the proprietor of the hot dog cart into giving them free food. Maybe Spidey got one of his adoring fans to shell out the cash? Or maybe the Spider-God stepped in to lend a hand. Or, let's just forget that last theory. I don't know. Anybody else got any theories?
9 comments:
Loki created them out of thin air.
Well, he IS a god. Surely he can do something other than get beaten up all the time.
Or perhaps he brought them with him from Asgard. Processed meat products are very popular with the Aesir, you know.
Which would make them...Hot Dogs of the Gods!!!
Two theories:
1.Loki's the trickster god; he probably went over to a hot dog cart, gave the guy a slip of paper and made him think it was money.
2.In ACTOR Comics Presents Vol. 1, Ron Marz wrote a story about a diner guy who gives superheroes free cups of coffee. It stands to reason that there's a hot dog vendor that's equally altruistic.
fortress: that would be awful nice of him.
sallyp: You'd think so, but the evidence is kind of scant.
rich: Yeah, except I recall Loki not really understanding what they were made of, or why they were called what they are. I figured Loki for more of a veggie guy honestly. Maybe his was a tofu dog?
dan: I like that second one. Kind of fits with the "costumed character tailor" that JMS introduced.
Hey, that reminds me of the end of the Beta Ray Bill mini-series last year when Bill (in his new, previously owned vagrant body) and Spidey shared some pizza on a roof. Bill wouldn't have found money for the pizza in his new acquired homeless guy's body's pockets and the same problem with Spidey.
And that just reminds me of what a massive drop off that last issue was. Bill went from fighting a sublime macrocosmic malevolence capable of devouring entire realities to a cabbie with anger management issues who turned into a human pig.
kanedoras: Hmm, dan's theory is sounding more plausible all the time. And that is a pretty weird shift. Any clues why they would wrap it up like that?
I imagine Spidey probably keeps a few bucks stashed in his boot or his belt for "emergencies".
Heck, since his webbing went internal, he's now got space where he used to keep his spare web-fluid cartridges. Of course the Loki story may have been before that.
...and here I realize I just commented on a post from five months ago. Sorry 'bout that, it just showed up in my RSS reader. :)
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