#alan sinclair

The Graphic Novel The Amazing Spider-Man: The Spirits of Earth was published with a pull date of September 1990. Peter Parker/Spider-Man and May Jane traveled to Scotland to deal with an inheritance. In Lochalash, Scotland, the locals complained about the town being cursed by faeries. As Spider-Man, Peter had a hard time getting around, lacking tall buildings to swing from. It turned out it was the Hellfire Club and not faeries to blame for what was going on. The graphic novel introduced Dark Mairi, Angus Munro, Alan Sinclair, Hugh Munro, Duncan Munro, and Castle Duncraig. They were created by writer/artist Charles Vess. ("Amazing Spider-Man: Spirits of Earth" Graphic Novel 63, Marvel Comic Event)

like the thing is. a good chunk of alan's story and his reasons for being Like That are just blatantly my commentary on british classism and southern-english bias and class anxiety and, on a personal level, what it was like for me growing up in the midlands and my grandma teaching me to speak with an RP accent and scolding me when i spoke with a brummie accent despite me being born and raised in birmingham

i love when a character actually has something that they deserve to feel guilty about and yet they choose to feel guilty about a million things that weren't their fault instead. Alan will take accountability for everything but the multiple felonies he committed in accordance with the UK Firearms Act of 1968 back in 2011

an underlying theme i love going on tangents about when writing nkw/alan is what's in a name. because the first obvious point is that he changed his name from robinson to sinclair right before he applied for OBU, but the distinction between 'before i changed my name' and 'after i changed my name' is so clear in his mind that he almost describes them as two separate individuals. alan sinclair, law student, nervous for his SQE2 but confident in his knowledge, independent, respectable; alan robinson, eight years old, scared, vulnerable, dirt broke, crying to himself in a council flat in manchester.

Repeated Viewing : Murdercoaster