About
Peter Parker Reading A Book is an exploitable three-pane comic series from a 60’s Spider-Man scene which depicts the character Peter Parker reading a book. The comic has spawned several common variants, such as “Book Of Faggots” and “Reasons to Live”.
Origin
On May 28, 2012, a user of the meme aggregator FunnyJunk by the name of stinkytech submitted an edited 60’s Spider-Man strip featuring an OP is a Faggot joke. This image was viewed over 110,000 times and gained over 4,000 points and 411 comments. stinkytech posted a template in the comments section of this image, which allowed the first variants to spawn.[1]
Left: Original Edit. Right: Original Template.
Spread
The comic eventually spun-off into a variant featuring Sad Pepe naked on a bed reading a book labelled “Reasons to Live”. This variant, judging by the cover of the book, likely stemmed from the meme aggregator MemeCenter. The contents of the books in these strips are often something the author is looking forward to. In 2015, Sui Ishida, author of the manga Tokyo Ghoul, responded to a strip edited to feature a Tokyo Ghoul-related image by drawing an image of the character Saiko Yonebayash in a hood designed to look like Pepe.[2]
sotonami</a> 先生がいるから嬉しくて、生きられる <a href="http://t.co/5OdjesTBtL">pic.twitter.com/5OdjesTBtL</a></p>— oo,nice wao := ! +u+ (kougyoks) April 26, 2015
Various Examples
Peter Parker
Reasons To Live
Search Interest
Not available
References
[1]FunnyJunk – Book About Faggots
[2]Crunchyroll News – ‘Tokyo Ghoul’ Author Responds to Pepe the Frog Meme