Across the Spider-Verse is a metamodern masterpiece

A new kind of storytelling, for a new kind of reality

Damien Walter
Jun 24, 2023

From the opening credits, the Spider-Verse movies tell us this isn’t reality as we know it.

Some people will miss the Spider-Verse because it’s an animated kids movie. But it’s a movie for kids growing up in a new reality.

A reality that can be rendered, skinned and modded to look however you want. A digital, augmented, virtual reality.

A meta reality.

That doesn’t exist just inside your computer anymore, but is projected out over the real reality…whatever that is.

A reality that only twelve to fifteen year olds ever really understand.

And a new reality, that needs new stories.

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Damien Walter
Damien Walter

Written by Damien Walter

I tell stories about the future, technology and culture. Published by The Guardian, WIRED, BBC etc.

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