big country
2nd August 2011, 12:34 PM
Can't have a white guy saving the world...
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There’s a new web-slinger in town (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/15/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-opens-to-mixed-reviews-by-critics/).
New Yorkers take their fictional heroes seriously, so it may come as a shock to some that Peter Parker, the Queens native whose destiny was forever altered by a radioactive/genetically altered spider, has been killed off in the “Ultimates” imprint of Marvel Comics. (http://marvel.com/) The Ultimate series is different from Marvel’s standard line (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/05/fdny-spider-man-and-captain-america-team-up-in-fire-prevention-comic-book/), in which Peter Parker is still happily toiling away as everybody’s favorite hard-luck hero.
No, in the Ultimates series, Peter Parker gets killed at the hands of his nemesis the Green Goblin. But, being a comic book series, no hero stays dead for long. While Peter Parker may be gone, a new kid is stepping into the tights: Miles Morales.
Miles Morales is a half-black, half-Hispanic super-powered teen who gets into the hero game after being inspired by Parker’s death.
“He’s younger than Peter Parker, he’s coming from a completely different background, a completely different world view,” writer Brian Michael Bendis told the Associated Press. Bendis, who has been writing Ultimate Spider-Man (and many other) comics for Marvel since 2000, is enthusiastic about the change. “I’m now sitting with a pile of legitimately new Spider-Man stories to tell and that is the best news a writer could have.”
No word on whether the change in ethnicity is going to play a role in casting decisions in upcoming Spider-Man movies (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/05/23/staffers-prepping-spider-man-movie-shoot-get-stuck-on-boom-lift-in-chinatown/) or Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark/).
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/new-spider-man-swinging-into-comic-book-shops-following-death-of-peter-parker/
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – There’s a new web-slinger in town (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/06/15/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-opens-to-mixed-reviews-by-critics/).
New Yorkers take their fictional heroes seriously, so it may come as a shock to some that Peter Parker, the Queens native whose destiny was forever altered by a radioactive/genetically altered spider, has been killed off in the “Ultimates” imprint of Marvel Comics. (http://marvel.com/) The Ultimate series is different from Marvel’s standard line (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/04/05/fdny-spider-man-and-captain-america-team-up-in-fire-prevention-comic-book/), in which Peter Parker is still happily toiling away as everybody’s favorite hard-luck hero.
No, in the Ultimates series, Peter Parker gets killed at the hands of his nemesis the Green Goblin. But, being a comic book series, no hero stays dead for long. While Peter Parker may be gone, a new kid is stepping into the tights: Miles Morales.
Miles Morales is a half-black, half-Hispanic super-powered teen who gets into the hero game after being inspired by Parker’s death.
“He’s younger than Peter Parker, he’s coming from a completely different background, a completely different world view,” writer Brian Michael Bendis told the Associated Press. Bendis, who has been writing Ultimate Spider-Man (and many other) comics for Marvel since 2000, is enthusiastic about the change. “I’m now sitting with a pile of legitimately new Spider-Man stories to tell and that is the best news a writer could have.”
No word on whether the change in ethnicity is going to play a role in casting decisions in upcoming Spider-Man movies (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/05/23/staffers-prepping-spider-man-movie-shoot-get-stuck-on-boom-lift-in-chinatown/) or Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark (http://newyork.cbslocal.com/tag/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark/).
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08/02/new-spider-man-swinging-into-comic-book-shops-following-death-of-peter-parker/