The New Ultimate Spider-Man debuts next week

[mob]

definetely can tell this is a much more basic look, the pads, the slip on mask, boots, gloves, seams on the pants, looks homemade which is good

[BackinBlack]

According to Bendis, the new Spider-Man will be revealed tomorrow morning by USA Today. Yep, another one day early reveal, just like the death.

Still placing my money on Miguel O'Hara.

[mob]

Wouldnt surprise me, even though people are gonna be confused or ticked because all hes known as is 2099

[Spidey 1923]

And the new Spider-Man is.....



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.

Interesting... not sure what to think yet.

[Caveboy0]

well he has the hispanic in him. perhaps he is ultimate miguel o'hera

[mob]

yeah, just given a different name. im sure everyone will think of him as Miguel O' Hara or at least those who know of 2099

[mr. excellent]

So there has been a lot of controversy over this. Personally, I don't agree with the uproar. I've read pages and pages worth of offensive arguments against the new Spider-man. I'm sure there are good arguments out there, but they've been drowned by the stupid ones, and that's a darn shame. Before I go on, I'll say that none of my comments following are directed at anyone on this forum. The stuff I'm responding to is coming from screen rant. There's an excellent article over there that addresses this subject though, for anyone who's interested. Anyway,...

Here's my bottom line take/opinion on it:

Bendis' Ultimate Spider-man is very much his own. Yes, he's doing a new take on the character created by Stan Lee, but the stories that he spun from Peter's origins are his work. He alone has been the author of the book from its inception in 2000 or 2001 (whenever it first came out), and
since then he has always done his best to treat the material properly. Spider-man still exists in Marvel's 616 universe as he always has (background story, etc.) give or take a marriage, and that should be enough for those who want to continue reading Spider-man with Peter Parker under the mask. So with that being said, I think that Bendis not only has the right to do with his variant of Spider-man what he wants, but he's also in a good position to do so. It shouldn't have to be said, but apparently it does for a lot of people out there who don't know how to use google: the Marvel canon Spider-man is still the same. That alone should end the discussion. Unless you don't read Marvel's canon stuff. But in that case, I'll just go back to the first point of this being Bendis' variant. He started the book, he can take it in whatever direction he wants to so long as he does it respectfully. But the new Spider-man hasn't even come out yet, so the complaints toward that are still unfounded.

People are trying to say that this move is being done only to boost sales or earn PC points. And obviously that's part of it, but if you look at how well Bendis has written Peter Parker these past 10-11 years, you know that that's not all there is to it. He respects the character too much. If he didn't, he wouldn't have written the book for so long with as much passion as he did. Here's another big thing: the character of Peter Parker was primed and ready to enter an exciting new phase of his life just before it was ended. He was getting trained by members of the Avengers, the teenage relationship drama with MJ and Gwen was finally reaching still waters and the characters had become interesting again, Mr. Jameson knew his secret and actually supported him (that alone would've been interesting to ride for a while)... heck, he was even going to pay for Peter's college tuition. Peter's life was pretty damn interesting and showed promise of continuing to be so. So, the fact that Bendis was willing to kill the character off to introduce another one says something pretty bold here.

It says "I've got something that's worth doing, and I'm so excited about it that I'm going to do it. Even though I could continue to go in the direction I'm going, and I'd be successful if I continued with the Peter Parker story, I'm gonna do the Morales story instead."

I'll end my post with this: Bendis is a good writer, and if he's excited about something, then that's reason enough to have some hope.

[Caveboy0]

personally excellent i was pretty mellow about this, but you restating where USM was going before the death of him started kind of makes me mad.

you said this is bendis' own. ultimately (no pun intended) to me what it says is this was some like framed suicide.

peter had so much to look forward too why would he die? why did you kill him bendis?

amazing spider-man still exists and i'm intrigued of this new direction to say the least, but all this tells me is that bendis better have something damn good planned.

[mr. excellent]

Anyone read the new Spider-man with Miles yet? It came out yesterday, right?

[Caveboy0]

yes and i did. i liked it very very much.

miles seems like a great character and bendis doesn't shy away of the social impact of having a black character so to speak. they involve him in the whole charter school lottery deal and it feels very modern interpretation of being an underprivileged minority today.

so that background really makes him different from peter in many ways. he seems put down to avoid disappointment so he has some growing to do in confidence and stuff.

its slow paced and almost feels like part 1 of issue #1, but thats fine its better then rushing it.

how he gets his powers is a bit contrived but it hints at something more then it is. and miles does get his powers in the issue.

so overall i really really liked it. not great, but as #1's goes it shows great potential.

[mr. excellent]

Well that's good. I'm glad to hear that. Looking forward to purchasing the issue soon. My hometown doesn't have a comic book shop so I'm going to have to make a little trip.

[mr. excellent]

Took me a while, but I finally read issues 1 -4. So,... Spoilers ahead.

I like it, a lot actually. I think it's interesting that Miles was bitten before Peter Parker died. It's interesting that he went and saw Peter just before he died, he got to talk to Gwen before she walked into the cathedral for the funeral. There's this question I have that's kind of a tangent, but I think it's worth asking. What the heck happened to the Spider that bit Miles? Does it go off and have a whole bunch of super spider adventures or something? That would make a cool fan fiction. Anyway... Good stuff so far. Every issue ends super abruptly though. Is that a sign of good writing, or is Bendis really ending each issue too darn soon? I don't know. Looking forward to finding out more about Miles.

He's definately likeable, and he has the meekness to him that's really endearing. I thought Peter was young, this kid's just a baby.

[Caveboy0]

i was actually bothered by forcing miles into Death of Spider-Man. was it really necessary to shoehorn all that in? I'm n to against the result but simply how quickly it happened. why couldn't it have been issues down the line in which he becomes curious about Peter Parker?