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.
“Do these spiderman pants make me look fat?”
Oddly enough they all look like him for some strange reason.
So, instead of shooting spider web material out of his hands; will he have spray paint?
I vote for a cross dressing transgender who secretly wants to be a democratic representative from Rio Linda who battles for the rights of arachnoids to be free from pesticides and reduced unemployment benefits.
Ultimate Spiderman is an obscure comic that will be discontinued soon.
Amazing Spiderman is the actual home of Peter Parker and Spiderman as we all know and love him.
They always do things like this in the Ultimates comic books. I don’t read them because I can’t stand Bendis.
Is my nerd showing?
I just had a discussion on an animation/art related board over ‘gayifying’ every show out there. Some of the answers I got from people were instructive. For example”
“Making a character gay has nothing to do with sex”
THAT is the mindset guiding/prevalent today’s entertainment world. It’s a case of Category Error. They cannot grasp that “gay” by it’s nature is about sex. They have bought the “it’s perfectly normal” line and cannot fathom anything else.
Half-black, half-latino, muslim, homeless, crippled and gay.
He will then be called “Lucky, the Ultimate Spiderman”
First of all, what does a “Latino” look like?
lol!!!!!
Sounds like Marvel has become liberal and consequently suffers from the standard liberal lack of creativity and originality.
Couple this with the normal PC sensitivities, and one has the ideal ingredients for going out of business.
Good riddance.
With great melanin comes great responsibility.
You just reminded me of this interesting piece of artwork.
Why not go all the way and make him an illegal alien also? Undocumented Spiderman! Sounds good to me. Politically correct comic books. oy.
And the The Thing (the only Jewish superhero*) converted to Islam.
Gag.
*Jews do have Magneto, Lex Luther, Harley Quinn (and maybe the Joker), so I guess that message is already clear.
Uberman: I am.. Uberman! I have superhuman powers, and I fight for untruth, injustice, and the Nazi way! And I have X-ray vision!
Lois Laneoff: X-ray vision? Can you see through my clothes?
Uberman: Ja! And through his, too. [ points at Jimmy Olstein ] He's a Jew!
Jimmy Olstein: No! No, it's not true! My parents were just very advanced in hygeine, that's all..!
Hitler: Silence! Guard, take this Jew away!
Uberman: No need! I'll drop him off at the camp on my vay to the Eastern front!
“Why stop there? Make him also muslim, homeless and disabled.”
Love it! LOL!
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