Peter Parker's Ultimate Gig has been out sourced to Mr. Miles Morales
Seriously though. Writer Brian Michael Bendis has come up with another idea to make Marvel a quick truck load of money. About every 10 years Marvel thinks about doing something that will draw news and camera crews but truly has no lasting impact.
It started when Marvel character North Star was outed as the first gay super hero.
This year Marvel has killed off the Ultimate Universe (not it's main stream line) version of Peter Parker/Spiderman and brought in a half Black and half Latino replacement.
I am all for as many different heroes from as many back grounds as possible. And I know many black readers who identified more with Spiderman than they did Powerman.
My main problem with this is that Marvel knows they have a time limit on this idea and that its only a ploy to sell a few thousand more books.
I say...Marvel should do like they did with The Who Is The Black Panther Series.
A. Bring in an A Plus Staff. Heck re-unite Reginald Hudlin and John Romita Junior.
B. Let them create a totally new and exciting character not spray black face on your flagship/franchise guy.
C.This has nothing to do with the Black Spidey but just a major bee up in my bonnet. Hire more writers than Brian Michael Bendis...I'm just saying Marvel and DC has have about 4000 characters that are interesting but all the stories are written by a total of 5 people....
D. Develop superheroes from Asia, Native American reservation, and every other culture that has been either forgotten or white washed. And do the research to make the characters cultural but intensely interesting
Still despite all that I am very interested to see WHAT they do with Black Spiderman.....
