Marvel Comics Kills Off Spider-Man, Replaces with Half-Black, Half-Hispanic teen

[Juliuscaesar]

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. The Ultimate series is different from Marvel’s standard line, 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.”

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/08...c-book-shops-following-death-of-peter-parker/

 

[Will E Worm]

This will go over about as well as the Asian Atom DC tried not so long ago. :1orglaugh

 

[Ulysses31]

And he might be gay!


Marvel Comics reveals the new Spider Man is black - and he could be gay in the future

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...pider-Man-black-gay-future.html#ixzz1Tuk6wX8H

 

[Will E Worm]

And he might be gay!


Marvel Comics reveals the new Spider Man is black - and he could be gay in the future

So, he will choose to be "gay" in the future. Hmmm...

 

[PirateKing]

Reaching out much?

 

[MikeyK]

Does he have SpiderMan's powers? If so how the fuck did he get them?

I'm so tired of this politically correct bullshit that seems to be forced into everything these days.

 

[Trident1]

I never thought PC could ruin a comic book.

 

[The Joker]

The Ultimate Marvel Universe:

Where Colossus is openly gay, Juggernaut refers to himself as "White Trash", the Red Skull is Captain America's son, the Hulk eats humans (though he is a bit of a stud in Tibet, so props for that) and now Spider-Man is not Peter Parker.

Interesting little universe, but it's pretty much on par for the course.

 

[feller469]

Not only is the new Spider-Man possibly gay and a black/Hispanic mix, he is also a dyslexic agnostic who doesn't acknowledge the existence of Dog

 

[LukeEl]

Hey DC is reissuing all their titles to #1 and keeping 52 titles, which includes the original Batgirl coming back, even though the Joker shot her and paralyzed her. Comics is like breast feeding it's not just for babies anymore.

 

[Tittyman5000]

I thought spiders were hard to kill, especially the radioactive type? :dunno:

 

[D-rock]

With all the stupid stuff both DC and Marvel have done, I'm just about at the point where I'm close to washing my hands of both of them and just not going to give a damn anymore.

 

[maildude]

More:
http://whatculture.com/comics/and-the-new-ultimate-spider-man-is.php

 

[Hot Mega]

I never thought PC could ruin a comic book.

Careful now, your bud meester was just proclaiming race should be irrelevant to a discussion.

Be interesting which weigh he would have wade in on this if I hadn't tipped him off with this post...Oh well....maybe next time...(I'm sure there will be..:o)

 

[enndaley]

I hope the Green Goblin pulled Parker's limbs off verrrrrrry slooooooowly.

 

[meesterperfect]

There goes the neighborhood.

 

[smoknn]

its just like everything else these days...working or not..they gotta fix it...the old saying is if it works dont fix it....in time they will find out change is not always better or the answer..some things are better left alone...mainly the things that have worked well for yearssss

 

[D-rock]

Careful now, your bud meester was just proclaiming race should be irrelevant to a discussion.

To be fair that might be the case if this came about organically and was just a natural part of a plots progression and the best way a story should do, but it's not.

It's pretty much blatant political correctness that is brutally pounded in there in a matter so obvious that a blind man could see it. Race is a part of the discussion on this because Marvel made it that way by it's own doing, and not because other people are overreacting to it.

 

[UnderBro]

If they're going to replace Ultimate Spider-Man/Peter Parker with a half-black, half-hispanic teen then should just make him as the Ultimateverse's Scarlet Spider.

 

[Straight Shooter]

I hate to break it to some of you, but the country is changing. By 2042, minorities will be the majority. The group predicted to post the most dramatic gain is the Hispanic population. It is projected to nearly triple, from 46.7 million to 132.8 million, from 2008 through 2050.