wondering...

[ratcreature]

...why is it that the logo on Spider-Man's back looks more like a tick than a spider? I mean, it has eight legs, but otherwise looks like a blob. The Watsonian explanation I can think of is that Peter's artistic and sewing capabilities for his homemade costume aren't that great, but the logo on the front is more delicate and is segmented, and looks much more like a spider. Maybe it's more simplified for distance visibility on the back?

Comments

[thirdblindmouse]

Maybe it's because while spiders sound cooler, and are the actual insect he got his powers from, a tick looks scarier. (At least to me, spiders are just critters. Ticks are terrifying even beyond how much they rationally should be.)

[ratcreature]

Hee. I'm not sure what's on his back looks very scary. I find the ticks here scarier than spiders too, because we don't have any dangerous spiders, but the ticks transmit all sorts of nasty things like meningitis and Lyme disease. However if we had deadly or dangerous spiders I'd probably think differently.