"I think of myself as a one-man wolf pack."

[seriousfic]

On the chip-on-his-shoulder Peter Parker, Garfield said: ““He’s a lone wolf… Erratic, angry, rebellious.”

So, is the new Parker, who fights back against the bullies, not so much of a nerd, then?

“It’s cool to be a nerd now,” The Social Network actor told us. “Peter is an outsider. Because that’s what he has to do to protect himself. He was dropped once; he doesn’t want to be dropped again. It’s difficult to get close to him.”

Okay. Reality check. You know who’s really bullied these days? Gay kids. Black kids. You want to make Peter ostricized, make him a nerdy gay kid or a nerdy black kid, because that’ll be a lot closer to the comics than an “angry, rebellious lone wolf.”