Posted on 08/03/2011 1:03:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Spiderman outfit will no longer be sported by its longtime creator Peter Parker in Marvel’s “Ultimate Spiderman” comic. Instead, Miles Morales, a half black and half Latino teen, will now take over the role of your friendly neighborhood wall crawler.
The creators of “Ultimate Spiderman” have also shocked fans by saying everyone may find out that Morales is gay in future storylines, according to the Daily Mail.
In Marvel’s recent “Ultimate Fallout” series, Morales pulls back his mask to reveal his identity as the new Spiderman.
However, his origin story will not be revealed until the official re-launch of “Ultimate Spiderman” next month.
“The theme is the same: With great power comes great responsibility,” says writer Brian Michael Bendis. “He’s going to learn that. Then he has to go figure out what that means.”
The creators also said that there is a possibility that Morales may be gay.
Back in June, in a controversial move by Marvel, Peter Parker, the original Spiderman was killed off by his arch nemesis the Green Goblin in “Ultimate Spiderman issue 160.”
Morales caught wind of Parkers death and used it as inspiration to do good taking on the role of Spiderman for the first time in “Ultimate Fallout issue 4.”
Marvel has also revealed that Morales will have a connection to Parker concerning how he received similar powers. But his abilities will be different than Parkers including being able to shoot webs directly out of his hands without using the web shooters that Parker used to use.
Despite the change in Ultimate Spiderman, the original Spiderman comic, “The Amazing Spiderman” which started in 1962, still has Peter Parker as Spidey, and has kept him alive.
The Ultimate series takes place in a different universe from the original Marvel characters and was established in the early 2000’s as a contemporary reimagining of Marvel’s most popular characters.
Well that lends a whole new meaning to the term “Spider hole”.
Why stop there? Make him also muslim, homeless and disabled.
Why not go all the way and make him an illegal alien also? Undocumented Spiderman! Sounds good to me. Politically correct comic books. oy.
How’s he going to swing from building to building with his pants hanging down so low?
Well groomed guy goes into a trendy restaurant and orders a Mexican meal with a side order of soul food. The cook screws up and smashes a radioactive spider on the ribs, and bam, New Spiderman.
Ya, that will sell alot of movie tickets, for sure for sure. Trying to make a comic book hero from that kind of character is like having a ganster wrap artist trying to sing a Moody Blues song.
Will his religion be Islam?
The spider should quit the “man” and go back to the insect world in deep disgust.
“We used to kick a$$. Then it was d’ck a$$. So I left!”
geez. lol. Ridiculous! Gay Spidey.
Oh wait he’ll have to be uncircumcised AND illegal too!
I’d like to read the Marvel Mangaverse books, if it can still be found.
This PC crap is just crap though.
Added to my list of movies to miss.
Anybody else think he looks like you-know-who?
Wow, he even looks like 0bama...
El Fabulous Spiderdawg. Nope. Ain’t gonna work!
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