Mantra of the Foxx #2: Peter Parker's Silver Metal

Foxx's Log,

Entry Num 96 dash 7

If you are going about your day, and perhaps you let out a fart.  If then you say to yourself: “deep down, from the depths of Morodor…” then we need to exchange information.   After that you will be hunt down.  My theories are right; there’s a clone out there!  Made by the government, with telepathic powers and you steal my dreams, feeding them to dragons.  Tread lightly my friend, I’m on to you, and there is nowhere you can hide.

On to business; I trust you are doing fine.  I hope that your… Iron-Man has found his arc reactor, I hope your Superman finds a planet that doesn’t eventually blow up… and I hope your Peter-Parker finds your Mary Jane Watson.  If the last line went: I hope your Peter Parker finds your Gwen Stacy, it wouldn’t fit, or made of as much sense (…or even less sense, due to your perspective).  Mary Jane is pop culture’s most famous silver metal (a strong argument could be made for Ron Weasly).  Yeah, I said it.  Peter Parker wanted Gwen, he couldn’t have her (due to Mr. G. Goblin), he settled for Mary Jane.  For years after, Mary Jane was the numero uno comic book mistress.   The connection between fans and the “get em’ tiger” girl was legendary, only being cemented by the success of the Spider-Man movies and cartoons a decade and a half ago.  She became the beautiful, moderately famous actress (some may say a little self-absorbed…) girlfriend all comic book nerds dreamt of swooning. 

The story of an iconic hero losing his love to the arch nemesis, while still being tangled amidst one of the most iconic back story webs, would at first glance, make Ms. Stacy  an ideal poster girl for the “damsel-in-distress” role (a title owned solely and supremely by Ms. Lois Lane).  Until recently, (basically, the last pair of movies) the recognition of Gwen was at a somewhat minimum, it was like Marvel, in the beginning, handled the general fan with kid gloves.  They waited for them to get a little more familiar to the protagonist and when they were deemed “mature” enough, Marvel unveiled the truth.  This is what Peter really had to go through all those years ago.

Comic fans were used to Gwen for a long time.  Accustomed to her, she was the constant, steady girlfriend.   Years went by before the shock of her death.  All fans, no matter how dedicated, had to wait a long time to see those line of events to unfold on the big or silver screen.  Before that, in Spidey’s “back in the day” MJ was the quirky, cute friend you enjoyed the company of but never took seriously.  In no way are any of these observations complaints, I merely think it is interesting the turn of events that led us to this moment in the post-Gwen/ Mary Jane/ post-post-Gwen/ pre-Mary Jane era.  Gwen was cool, humble, down to Earth, a science major…   Simply put, a blonde beauty with a big brain; the full package, his one true love.  Which leads me to:

#3 (continued from last post) Collect and Respect

Bringing it all together, the full package, making many into one.  You’ve already jumped the hurdles and built your lead.  Just cross the finish line.   We gots to be able to graduate, show that you know how to complete things.  Turn your diary entries, your poems written on napkins, the back of a Rasta-bands handout flyer, the blogs, your dream journal, and so on.  Bring it all together, scan them all, cut and paste, make it something you can deliver to the masses.  This might be the most unsuspecting step in the creative process.  Just think of the track metaphor made earlier.  How many times have you watched a clip of a track runner tripping at the finish, or letting up too early, just to lose that giant, for-sure lead?  I myself must’ve seen more of those than of actual record breakers.  Every person ever has and is sitting on a pile of content every person ever would want to read about.  Get it?  It’s only a matter of having that extra commitment to excellence, going that extra mile to get it out there.

Stay tuned for the final chapter: Mantra 3: The Black Album, and remember, you cannot escape the sun!

C.J. Foxx 

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