I originally had something else planned for today, but how can I pass up the news that Ultimate Spiderman, hot on the heals of Peter Parker getting killed off, is making a new character Spiderman.
Miles Morales will apparently slide into Peter Parker's still warm costume. It looks as though, Miles will be mentored by MJ and and Aunt May and will deal with the same theme of "with great power, comes great responsibility." Not sure where the power comes from, but maybe Spiderman is like the Flash (no not Flash Thompson, the DC character) and he is powered by a force that is passed down through the ages. I will call said force the Spider-Force. Eventually we will have multiple Spidermen and they will be able to travel in time by shooting webbing at a treadmill.
The Ultimate line has a tendency to re-imagine their characters as minorities. Granted the Marvel universe is a very Eurocentric type place. Minority characters seldom take the starring roles and the Ultimate Universe is trying to change that by changing popular, established characters. I tend to think this is the wrong way to do it (once with Nick Fury was neat), but, unfortunately, I do not make creative decisions at Marvel. Miles Morales is half black/half hispanic. From comments by the artists about, black and/or gay characters one day not turning heads, I think he will most likely be gay as well. What it comes down to is, will the readers relate to the new Spiderman. Well, they have the half black/half hispanic, gay, marvel comics reading community sured up.
It makes me miss my original minority Spiderman, though. Bring back Spiderman 2099. Miguel rocks!
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Never liked the pompous git that is Spiderman, he always hassled the Punisher.
It's all well and good to change up him up to a minority, but what really matters is if they can make a decent comic or not. I really haven't read any Ultimate in a long time.
He has worked with the Punisher from time to time, when certain skill sets were needed.
TS- I tried reading the Ultimates line somewhat, but they aren't really aimed at me. They are more for a younger generation of comics reader than me. That being said, the character may do well.
Shame everything has to be rebooted these days.
When I first read 'minorities', I thought you meant kids. lol That'd be worse.
I was thinking the same thing about minorities!
I totally had some of those Spiderman 2099 issues! I'd get them at the 7-11 by my house back in the day! Wow, can't believe I forgot about that line.
Good review. I think this is not such good idea. Hero's always been models to kids, they found in them something they were missing in the real world. Creating metro sexual characters in the future just because they're cool today is sooo wrong. And that hurts original heros too. Maybe Morales will be disaster but he will sure make some damage to the original spidey.
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