MCU Aunt May Parker by Reilly Brown

Reilly Brown took on my odd request for an MCU Aunt May sketch at the Baltimore Comic Con and he really did great! He doesn’t like doing likenesses so I didn’t really ask for one and was surprised when I got one. I think of a more modern Aunt May as just “on model” for properties going forward. While sure, I think Marissa Tomei is pretty and all, I really just like that for a high school aged Peter Parker, they’ve reset Aunt May to not be so ancient. I liked it when the Andrew Garfield movie series used Sally Field too. It just makes sense to break from the old comics mold that defined ages clearly into “kid, young person, middle aged man (comics didn’t do too much with middle aged women unless they were some wealthy politician’s or business magnate’s wife) and elderly person.” There’s no reason Archie Andrews should be in high school yet his parents were drawn as though they were at death’s door. Anyway, I really like how this turned out and have been loving commissioning Spider family characters more recently.
Baltimore 2021.