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.
As a little kid, I always found it perplexing that DC and Marvel (Stan Lee) had Jewish writers/creators and made the super-enemies Jewish.
That said, Luther and Magneto were cool.
what, not a hermaphrodite illegal alien, too?
Bunch of right-wingers over there at Marvel. /s
And that's NOT his spidey-sense tingling!
The PC crowd just can’t help themselves...we will have a BLACK ‘Perry White’ in next year’s ‘Man of Steel’ reboot...
look out spidey its the homosexual manbearpig sneaking up behind you!!!!!
>And the The Thing (the only Jewish superhero*) converted to Islam.
Where did you get that idea? If it happened wikipedia missed it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28comics%29
Still says he Jewish.
Personally, while I find this a bit distasteful, I consider it a tempest in a teapot. The Ultimates line of comics overall is small change, and really doesn’t matter much. Though admittedly some of the ideas from the Ultimates universe do get into other things, the Spider Man line there doesn’t really seem noteworthy. (the Avengers one, OTOH, has been mined a lot for the current Marvel movies).
The live action re-do of Akira, a Japaneese Amime classic set in Tokyo is supposed to have two non-Asian main characters, set in America.
PC kills everything it touches in any direction.
“Anybody else think he looks like you-know-who?”
He does have a little Hillary in him. Must be the hands.
RE: And that’s NOT his spidey-sense tingling!
Spidey-sense will be replaced by the GayDar.
Wow. I think he looks a lot like BO.
Maybe it’s just me.
BLAH!
I couldn’t find evidence for Lex Luther being Jewish. I must admit, tho, I’m a Marvel comics guy, and not a DC follower.
If only what happens in a different universe would stay in a different universe...
Not without major looking, no.
I would agree that Fishburne is an excellent actor, but he isn’t ‘Perry White’. If they wanted to establish a new character as Editor of the Daily Planet (after White has retired or passed away); that would be fine. Hollywood is just pandering, as usual...
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