Given that Spider-Man no longer uses mechanical web-shooters, why does he still make the Ditko hands when he fires webs? There's no button in his palm to push to shoot webs, so there's no reason to do it, yet he still does.
As I recall, he stopped doing it when he had the symbiote, since it made the webbing for him. Back then, the webbing came from a spot on the back of his hand, right around the wrist, and Peter usually just made sure to keep his hand turned down, so it didn't interfere. He might have an open hand, or a closed fist, but no "Ditko" hands, you know? So it wouldn't seem like it's just a reflex. So why continue with it now?
Maybe it helps him to shoot the webbing, as it causes a flexing of the muscles, exerting pressure on the web sacs under his skin, ejecting the webbing in a stream. Spider-Man 2099 had a similar situation, with organic webs, and he mentioned (in Spider-Man 2099 #5, I think) needing to flex to make it happen.
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Maybe he just does it from habit? Organic webbing or not, he spent a LOT of time doing it that way, and he's probably just doing it unconciously because it is so ingrained at this point.
I just assumed that Pete developed some convenient organic "button" in his palm that he needed to press to shoot the webs...
-M
sallyp: That's probably the best explanation.
matt: . . . And that's the most interesting explanation.
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