#coffee bean gang

[uncharted-constellations]

I... Cannot stop

#spider-man #coffee bean gang #peter parker #mary jane watson #gwen stacy #harry osborn #flash thompson #mj watson #art #my art #comic #comics #marvel #you may ask ‘bro how and why are you cranking shit out so fast’ #the answer is the bees! #also theres something freeing about using a different brush than i do for my more traditional art thats just bery fun #i needed more harry and gwen in this one since i focused more on the others before #flash and peter still ended up with a double page feature anyways #pbs kids peter is canon just ask the sliding timescale #gwens little widows peak is very important to me #i know the bangs are the more well known style but i dont care! #peters hair also never going in the right direction is equally important #there will always be at least one chunk rebelling

[sciderman]

day 10–12 of spider-month! friendship/romance 

buh...beans...

insta

#coffee bean gang #peter parker #mary jane watson #harry osborn #flash thompson #gwen stacy #spidermonth2023

[demigod-of-the-agni]

It's the CoffeeBean gang of Mumbattan!!

(from left to right: Gayatri Singh, Pavitr Prabhakar, Hari Oberoi, Meera Jain, Flash Thompson)

#someone please ask me about my cool Mythic Mumbattan AU #pretty please #please please #i have so many thoughts i might literally exploed #on the ground dead after hours of working on this piece #it is 4 in the morning im going to wake up looking like a zombie so you better do me a favour and be Intrigued #gayatri singh #pavitr prabhakar #hari oberoi #meera jain #flash thompson #spider man india #spiderman india #atsv #spider man #spider man fanart #coffee bean gang #myart #artoftheagni

[drempen]

Coffee bean halloween 👻

#tried to go sorta 60s with this one lads #peter parker #gwen stacy #mary jane watson #flash thompson #harry osborn #spider man #comics #marvel #coffee bean gang #my art #halloween #spider man fanart

[theopolis]

Spider-Man adaptations: How do we streamline this continously ongoing decades old comic franchise into a cohesive story 🤔 We need some kind of actual narrative throughline

Coffee Bean Gang Saga illustrating the formation of the friend group, the devastating murder of Gwen and the emotional fallout of the tragedy resulting in amazing development for the characters involved and their relationships with each other, coming full circle with Harry's Green Goblin arc and eventual heartbreaking death: Hey-

Spider-Man adaptations: shut the fuck up I need to focus on turning Peter's supporting cast into completely different people

#spider man #Peter Parker #Harry osborn #mary jane watson #flash thompson #gwen stacy #coffee bean gang #theopolispost #GRAAAAAAH

[anarchyspider]

This is the most emotionally repressed, colorful group of damaged queer people in a polycule to exist I think

#mary jane watson #peter parker #flash thompson #gwen stacy #harry osborn #coffee bean gang #spider man #marvel #my thoughts

[mavigator]

bonus under the cut

lest we forget

#coffee bean gang #pete #gwen #flash #harry #mj #comics #could not be fucked to make this look neater my head hurts.

[ask-spiderpool]

twitter | insta | ko-fi

#ask-spiderpool #peter parker #harry osborn #mary jane watson #main #memory lane #coffee bean gang #bully maguire my beloved #bully maguire

[shokuto]

#spiderman #my art #my comic #mary jane watson #coffee bean gang #peter parker #harry osborn #gwen stacy #flash thompson

[soranatus]

Spidey and the gang on New Year’s! 🎆 By devlin baker | fancygoblin

#marvel comics #spiderman #peter parker #gwen stacy #mary jane watson #harry osborn #flash thompson #coffee bean gang #new years #new years eve #fan art

[oliveroctavius]

Let's look briefly at the Coffee Bean in Spider-Man comics!

Contrary to popular memory, Peter's college pals initially met up at a diner called the Silver Spoon (ASM 44, but also 46, 52, possibly 125).

The spread at the top of this post takes a lot from this place's layout. But as newcomer MJ might have pointed out, diners are so fifties. The modern teen needed someplace cooler and edgier to hang out. Somewhere more underground. Literally.

Maps place The Coffee Bean alternately in East Village or Tribeca. The beret and glasses? The lowercase Dante's Inferno quote? The wall-hung guitar? So hipster. Wait, wrong decade. So beatnik.

The OG Bean didn't show up much more frequently than the Silver Spoon (ASM 53, 59, and 82, most notably), but it's the one that stuck in the cultural imagination. I enjoy Tim Sale's take in Spider-Man: Blue with the unfinished basement look and cult film posters.

In early modern flashbacks, the location is plagued by a specific continuity problem: "then [character] leaps through the WINDOW!" from new writers who missed the fact that it's below ground. In ASM Annual '96, JRSr complies by raising the ceiling a level!

The Sensational Spider-Man Annual's approach to the Coffee Bean makes me a bit sad. Dialogue repeatedly emphasizes its unique character and long history and how well MJ knows the place. But it's drawn aboveground and totally generic. (This from an issue with a dozen Silver Age panels directly traced!)

It's not the first time that happens, but here feels like a critical failure of show-don't-tell. The eventual window smash is worth it, but... I'd argue this would work better set at the Silver Spoon (where MJ actually met the gang, old in an uncool way, aboveground) instead.

Brand New Day reestablishes a solid sense of place for the Coffee Bean. Brick and glass entryway, a logo that's less beatnik and more Starbuck, and an interior that reminds me of a Panera Bread.

(If it's supposed to be canon that the new more corporate look is due to renovations by Harry, that's been lost in the shuffle. But it would make sense to me. His effort at impressing Norman with a plan to make the Bean a chain store circa ASM 569 would extend his trend of editorializing his own memories.)

While it still teleports between Astor Place and Tribeca, this version has now had more consistent (and just more) appearances than the original. And, of course, it has a beautiful bank of windows to—

Ah, that's more like it.

The Coffee Bean has become a symbol of innocent nostalgia and a happier past. It was also (as designed by Romita Sr) a virtual bunker: not until 1977 would superheroics be written to take place inside the Coffee Bean. (ASM Annual #11—Romita Jr's first ever penciling job on Spider-Man, interestingly.)

As a silver age icon, the location was physically safe and interruption-free in a way that even Peter's apartments and Aunt May's house couldn't be. The architecture—and how it's changed—has been a large part of that symbolism, underappreciated as it sometimes is.

#long post #thank you for coming to ollie's deep dive of the week if anything here is wrong go ahead and add on #the coffee bean #coffee bean gang #down with the sliding timescale #images undescribed

[uncharted-constellations]

Dreaming about them 🥰

#spider-man #coffee bean gang #peter parker #flash thompson #gwen stacy #mary jane watson #harry osborn #randy robertson #mj watson #art #my art #technically ben re-illy but i wont tag him specifically #i know randy wasnt technically part of the group but he was at esu so im counting it #let randy hate the rich again 2k23 #also rip harry you ugly bitch sorry you were in secret hell for 20 years #ive been mentally feral for petermj for weeks #even if they become canon again they wont be hot and grumpy enough #give me a man who hasnt watched television in 10 years except for whatever his wife is in #anyways this is a friendly reminder to stop tagging comic verse on ao3 when it isnt #mc-u is not comic verse #spid-erverse is not comic verse #if you need a blanket tag thats what the ‘all media types’ is for #this goes for all comics honestly #marvel

[sciderman]

beams. beamsan. bbeans. coffee beans. 🫶

#gwen stacy #peter parker #harry osborn #i miss them. #coffee bean gang #mj is taking the picture

[demigod-of-the-agni]

PLEASSEEE TELL US ABOUT YOUR MYTHIC MUMBATTAN AU PLEASE PLEASEE

>:) very well, my people (currently screaming because i wrote a response but i accidentally CTRL+Zd everything out of existence lmao)

The Mythic Mumbattan AU is me pouring the following ingredients into an explosive mess:

Hindu mythology and Indian culture overload

college!Spider-Man shenanigans

revamping the original Spider-Man: India plotlines and expanding the lore

character studies!!! my favourite :)

a potential and self-indulgent crossover with another indian superhero (if we ever get there)

the horrors.

Pavitr and his personal cast!!! just!!!! THEY!!!!!!

(keep reading if you want more goodies >:D)

So the CoffeeBean is a coffeeshop that existed in the mainstream Marvel universe and in real life but that's another thing; the cast below frequently drop by to hang out with one another. The Mumbattan-equivalent of the CoffeeBean is actually the TeaHouse which is another real life thing but shh and so in-universe they're called the TeaHouse gang, but in my heart they'll always be the CBG 😌

Everyone goes to Brihanmumbai State University (BSU). Lots of crazy things happen here. Pavitr's relationship with the others is always in flux but ultimately they're super close with one another (fuck it, they might as well be poly). Their personalities I try to keep as close as I can to the mainstream universe E616 comics, but I'm being creative and letting a few things from the SMI comics and ATSV influence them:

Pavitr Prabhakar — Tamilar (Tamil); he has the charm and skills from his ATSV counterpart and the smarts from his SMI counterpart; he can be a bit of a jerk and a flake, but he tries to be a good friend, and is much more open than he was in high school.

Meera Jain — Kannadiga (Kannada); basically how I've written her in tibim: everyone's first impression of her is that she's carefree and seems to not worry too much about life. She secretly deals with a lot of self-doubt and personal fears, but the gang's presence is enough for her to push them aside.

Gayatri Singh — Gujarati (Gujarati); she's probably the most quiet of the gang, but undeniably the kindest. She's more similar to Pavitr, in that she's stubborn and quick to judge. She's the glue of the gang and always willing to extend a hand to others

Hari Oberoi — Maharashtrian (Gujarati/Marathi/Hindi); the son of the man who tried to bring literal hell to earth, but other than that he's okay. He's a people-pleaser despite having everything, and struggles with his own self-image and who he should become

Ekansh "Flash" Travasso — Goan (Marathi); the high school jock who's grown more understanding and compassionate. He knew Pavitr the longest, so they have quite an interesting collection of interactions. (ALSO I'M SO SORRY I WROTE THOMPSON IN THE ART POST INSTEAD OF TRAVASSO 😭 maybe i should go back and edit that)

Spider-Man is Spider-Man'ing. Mumbattan loves him (sort of. Inspector Singh has mixed feelings). But another question: why is that every where Spider-Man goes the demons of yore all start showing up and begin wrecking havoc? Why is that? I am taking the magic in Spider-Man: India and dialing it up to five million — horrors and magic of every kind! I can get my hands real dirty and /really/ push Pavitr to his limit >:)

That is all for now. There will be more characters, but they'll show up in time. Lots of stories too, all old and new and revamped and crazy, but they'll be told when they're ready. Perhaps this is enough to satiate everyone's hunger? (unless you want to know something else, then by all means go ahead and ask!!!)

#sorry this took so long i was procrastinating #and then all my words disappeared and i had to physically go and touch grass. sometimes technology and i don't mix #but anyway #mythic mumbattan au #my beloved #i am soooooo insane about these guys. you have no idea #me waiting for all the words to come pouring out of my brain ykykyk #coffee bean gang #spider man #pavitr prabhakar #gayatri singh #meera jain #hari oberoi #flash travasso #spider man india #agni of wisdom #agnirambles

[drempen]

Coffee bean gang personality types (ft. Felicia), based on x

#coffee bean gang #gwen stacy #harry osborn #peter parker #flash thompson #felicia hardy #mary jane watson #my art #spider man

[theopolis]

The sign at the doors of the Coffee Bean saying "abandon hope all ye who enter here" is probably my favorite instance of unintentional foreshadowing in Spider-Man comics

#coffee bean gang #those kids were doomed by the narrative!! #harry osborn #peter parker #mary jane watson #flash thompson #gwen stacy #theopolispost