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Hombre araña
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 12:21 am
by Gob
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
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:53 am
by dales
Is he gay?
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 1:56 am
by Gob
Why, interested Dales? I didn't know you swung that way...
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:19 am
by Sean
Is he in a wheelchair? Bi-polar? A midget?
We could create the perfect PC Spiderman here!
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:35 am
by dales
Gob wrote:Why, interested Dales? I didn't know you swung that way...
My chances of of a "score" are better than 50%!
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:59 am
by loCAtek
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?
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 3:51 pm
by Joe Guy
dales wrote:Gob wrote:Why, interested Dales? I didn't know you swung that way...
My chances of of a "score" are better than 50%!
In the first new Spiderman movie, Miles Morales, a nerdy heterosexual teenager from New York City gets bitten by a gay black spider.
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)
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:09 pm
by Gob
LOL!! Nice one Joe...
Re: Hombre araña
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:46 pm
by loCAtek
loCAtek wrote:Viva La Raza!
Although in Brooklyn, he's more likely Puerto Rican, than Mexican.
I was correctomundo;
Wiki;
He is the son of an African American father and a Puerto Rican mother.