Over at Slate, Arie Kaplan considers whether Spider-Man is Jewish, based on input from actor Andrew Garfield, novelist Michael Chabon, and producer Avi Arad. Or, at the very least, is he a “crypto-Jew,” especially considering his brand of humor? Read more here.

(Thanks to Steve Bergson, editor of The Jewish Comix Anthology and proprietor of the Jewish Comics blog for spotting this one. I think he’d appreciate the relevance of the clip below.)