Marvel Comics has unveiled a new half-black, half-Latino Spider-Man, who replaces the recently killed-off Peter Parker.
Miles Morales, introduced in Marvel's Ultimate Fallout Issue 4, is a nerdy teenager from New York City.
Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso said the new web-slinger "speaks to our rich cultural heritage" in the US.
Parker died in Ultimate Spider-Man Issue 160 in June during a fight with his bitter enemy, Green Goblin.
Like Parker, Morales is a geeky, working-class teenager from the boroughs of New York City.
Morales lives with his black and Latino parents in ethnically diverse Brooklyn, while Parker was white and raised by his aunt and uncle in a mainly white neighbourhood in Queens.
"Going into this we knew we wanted to make a statement about the 21st century," said Alonso.
The Marvel editor-in-chief, whose mother was from England and father from Mexico, said he cried when Barack Obama was elected president "partly because he was African-American but largely because of the fact that he was mixed race".
Alonso added that when Morales "peels off his mask now, he's going to have a very different look and he's going to resonate emotionally with all sorts of new readers".
He told AFP news agency Spidey writer Brian Michael Bendis is Jewish and has two adopted children from Africa.
"So I know for him it was definitely personal," Alonso said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14394181
Hombre araña
Hombre araña
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Is he gay?
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Hombre araña
Why, interested Dales? I didn't know you swung that way...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Hombre araña
Is he in a wheelchair? Bi-polar? A midget?
We could create the perfect PC Spiderman here!
We could create the perfect PC Spiderman here!
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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My chances of of a "score" are better than 50%!Gob wrote:Why, interested Dales? I didn't know you swung that way...
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Re: Hombre araña
Viva La Raza!
Although in Brooklyn, he's more likely Puerto Rican, than Mexican.
More importantly: how did he inherit the spider-powers? I thought Spidergirl™ was the direct descendant?
Although in Brooklyn, he's more likely Puerto Rican, than Mexican.
More importantly: how did he inherit the spider-powers? I thought Spidergirl™ was the direct descendant?
Re: Hombre araña
In the first new Spiderman movie, Miles Morales, a nerdy heterosexual teenager from New York City gets bitten by a gay black spider.dales wrote:My chances of of a "score" are better than 50%!Gob wrote:Why, interested Dales? I didn't know you swung that way...
He soon realizes that he has become bigger & stronger & has developed a fondness for men.
Later, he discovers that he has an acute gaydar sense.
So naturally, he sews himself a tight fitting costume and goes clubbing. His adventure into crime fighting begins when he meets up with some guy dressed up as a Goblin at a dance club.
That's how I heard it all starts, anyway...
(edited for spelling)
Last edited by Joe Guy on Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Hombre araña
LOL!! Nice one Joe...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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I was correctomundo;loCAtek wrote:Viva La Raza!
Although in Brooklyn, he's more likely Puerto Rican, than Mexican.
Wiki;
He is the son of an African American father and a Puerto Rican mother.