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After being a superhero for decades, crimefighting is a career at this point for Peter Parker. Not everybody loves going into their job every single day...and there will always be some bad days, where a worker isn't going to feel like following the usual script. Spidey is having one of those days.
During his monologue in the preview for The Amazing Spider-man 2024 Annual #1, Spider-Man refers to being the Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man as "an act," one that he finds difficult to keep up 24/7. Particularly in this instance, where he's not in a mood to be so friendly after watching a man die the day before. Peter Parker's agitation seers with each thought bubble, and even more so in his interaction with Overtime. His lines read very much like a man who is getting increasingly irritated with every step he takes on this day.
Even beyond acknowledging that the "Friendly Neighborhood Spider-man" is a front, Spider-Man hasn't been a man of the neighborhood for a long time. New York crimes used to be Spidey's bread and butter, but currently, Spider-Man has more world-spanning, even space-spanning adventures, than he does in his local NYC neighborhood anymore. Spider-Man is more of a cosmic hero than a neighborhood hero nowadays, so the neighborhood moniker isn't accurate for that reason alone. Spider-Man isn't always going to feel friendly, but he's long graduated beyond being a neighborhood street hero.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2024 Annual #1 will be available July 3, 2024 from Marvel Comics.