This is old-hat by now, I’m just posting it for the random Google hits it’ll pick up 5 months from now :). At the end of the day, I think this move represents the ultimate (pun partly intended) embodiment of what the Ultimate universe was originally supposed to be about. It might be 11 years overdue and the publicity stunt feel to it rubs me the wrong way (I don’t think it’s actually a publicity stunt, I just think Marvel is exploiting it as such to it’s full potential) but no matter what, I applaud them.
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http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/2011-08-01-black-spider-man_n.htm
Revealed in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Fallout Issue 4, out Wednesday, 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.
“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 figure out what that means.”
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