Marvel Introduces the New Ultimate Spider-Man
For those of you who don't read comics, Marvel made a bit of a splash a few months ago when they announced that they would be killing of Spider-Man in their Ultimate universe line in a story arch called (wait for it) "The Death of Spider-Man."
Well they've just announced the replacement web slinger and true to the fairly decent track record they have in the Ulitmates lines, it's not just a clone of Peter Parker. Spider scribe Brian Michael Bendis said that he was inspired by the "Donald Glover for Spider-Man" Twitter campaign for the "Amazing Spider-Man" movie reboot and has created the new character Miles Morales who's half black and half Hispanic.
This would technically be the the second Spider-Man who's of mixed race since the lead character of 'Spider-Man 2099' was the half white, half Hispanic Miguel O'Hera, but this would be the first one who would be undoubtedly non-white since many artists had a habit of drawing O'Hera like a white man.
Check out the io9 write up here
Well they've just announced the replacement web slinger and true to the fairly decent track record they have in the Ulitmates lines, it's not just a clone of Peter Parker. Spider scribe Brian Michael Bendis said that he was inspired by the "Donald Glover for Spider-Man" Twitter campaign for the "Amazing Spider-Man" movie reboot and has created the new character Miles Morales who's half black and half Hispanic.
This would technically be the the second Spider-Man who's of mixed race since the lead character of 'Spider-Man 2099' was the half white, half Hispanic Miguel O'Hera, but this would be the first one who would be undoubtedly non-white since many artists had a habit of drawing O'Hera like a white man.
Check out the io9 write up here