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Ask Spider-Man About His Feminist Agenda (SPOILERS)

There are opening-page spoilers below for Amazing Spider-Man #789 by Dan Slott, Stuart Immonen, Wade Von Grawbadger and Marte Gracia published by Marvel Comics today, as part of the Marvel Legacy renumbered issues and starting a new storyline.

It was the cover that launched a thousand Twitter threads. The "Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda" shirt worn by Mockingbird on the Joelle Jones cover of her solo comic written by Chelsea Cain and drawn by Kate Niemczyk It was a self-mocking cover that was seized upon by critics looking for an actual feminist agenda at Marvel comics — as if equality of vote, opportunity, and pay was somehow a bad thing.

Nevertheless, it was attacked as everything that was wrong with Marvel Comics, turning some of their superhero comics into titles that women and girls might be more likely to read. And then seized on by others as everything that could be right about Marvel Comics — for exactly the same reason.

The controversy saw Marvel rename the second collection of the series to "My Feminist Agenda" and put the cover on the front.

By then, the series had already been cancelled, but the second collection performed a lot stronger than expected and has gone through multiple printings. And while plenty of people made the T-shirt live in real life…

But the T-shirt never actually appeared in the comic – and so wasn't considered as canon. Until The Amazing Spider-Man #789 . Shown to fans at San Diego Comic Con, today's comic shows us Peter Parker crashing with Mockingbird….

And exactly what happened to that shirt.

Go on then, ask him!

Can Peter keep the shirt, Bobbi? It mostly fits…

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