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.
Always wanted to track down the rumored Jack Kirby drawing of Thing wearing a talit.
In the Smallville show they converted Lex (who was still played by a Jewish actor) to Episcopalian, because the actor was concerned it would be a negative sterotype of Jewish people.
Does this mean that MJ is available? :P
“Trying to make a comic book hero from that kind of character is like having a gangster rap artist trying to sing a Moody Blues song.”
Okay, that made me laugh.
...if only that were the most of our problems...
And when he has a guest at his apartment, I bet he insists the guest place his/her beverage on a coaster. I grew up reading Spiderman, not Spiderwuss.
Hydraulics!
with AIDS
RE: Does this mean that MJ is available? :P
Well, if she isn’t, I’ll take Gwendolyn ( she’s cuter ).
New photo of Henry Cavill in the ‘Superman’ outfit has hit the net...at least it doesn’t look as gay as the Routh version...geez.
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