So this is interesting.
We have an African-American president, so why not an African-American Spider-Man, too?
Revealed in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Fallout Issue 4, out Wednesday, the new Spider-Man in the Ultimate universe is a half-black, half-Hispanic teen named Miles Morales. He takes over the gig held by Peter Parker, who was killed in Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 160 in June.
In his first appearance, he simply breaks up a fight. But readers will learn the true origin of Morales and how he became the new Spider-Man when Ultimate Spider-Man relaunches in September with a new No. 1 issue.
“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 figure out what that means.”
The best part of this for me is that people in America are able to deal with a black president, but are obviously not ready for the inevitability that is a black superhero. This must be one of the first Marvel black superheroes, the only other one i can think of is Black Panther.
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