{"id":23718,"date":"2015-06-22T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=23718"},"modified":"2023-01-23T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T18:13:55","slug":"miles-morales-is-officially-spider-man-in-marvel-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/miles-morales-is-officially-spider-man-in-marvel-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Be Our Official Marvel Comics Spider-Man This Fall?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While it’s confirmed that the new cinematic Spider-Man<\/strong><\/a> will not be Miles Morales, as many hoped<\/a>, the biracial spider hero will finally be getting his time in the spotlight elsewhere: comics.<\/p>\n

The NY Daily News<\/em> exclusively reports<\/a> that when the main universe Spider-Man<\/em> comic relaunches this fall, the hero under the mask will be Miles Morales.<\/p>\n

He’ll join several new comics<\/a> following the massive Secret Wars<\/em> event, which is still under way.<\/p>\n

Miles Morales, the teen son of an African-American father and Puerto Rican mother, first showed up in 2011, replacing the Ultimate universe’s Peter Parker, who was murdered. Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli, the co-creators of Miles, will be heading the new series.<\/p>\n

Bendis, in an interview with Marvel<\/a>, explains how this came about:<\/p>\n

“This is a direct result of the grassroots, passionate response to the character as both an individual and what he represents to the readership. This is a direct result of very loud voices telling Marvel what they want. Miles, a child of color, will be Spider-Man. Not Ultimate Spider-Man, not Spectacular Spider-Man, not Amazing Spider-Man\u2014Spider-Man.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s not clear what’s going to happen with Peter Parker, but Bendis is fairly explicit that Morales is the new Spider-Man.<\/p>\n

This is a growing trend for Marvel Comics<\/a>, who now has a female Thor<\/a>, Sam Wilson as Captain America, and their first leading Muslim hero in Kamala Khan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These changes are exciting and we’re eager to see what Miles does in his new series, and the new place he carves for himself in the Marvel universe.<\/p>\n

It’s going to have an impact on the readers, which Bendis revealed to the NY Daily News<\/em> when his 4 year-old adopted African-American daughter found a Miles Morales Spider-Man mask in a store and exclaimed she was Spider-Man:<\/p>\n

“I started crying in the middle of the aisle. I realized my kids are going to grow up in a world that has a multi-racial Spider-Man, and an African American Captain America and a female Thor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, no, it’s fine, we just have some dust in our eyes. Or a branch.<\/p>\n

So get ready! Miles Morales’ Spider-Man<\/em> will hit shelves this fall.<\/p>\n

Are you excited for the new Spider-Man<\/em> run? Sound off in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While it’s confirmed that the new cinematic Spider-Man will not be Miles Morales, as many hoped, the biracial spider hero will finally be getting his time in the spotlight elsewhere: comics. The NY Daily News exclusively reports that when the main universe Spider-Man comic relaunches this fall, the hero under the mask will be Miles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126,11,388,558],"tags":[2886,3145,112,1154,2887,406],"yst_prominent_words":[22730,6232,5968,11628,22727,22728,7249,8998,6073,9952,9942,9951,7776,22729,8534,22731,22726,22725,14936,6217],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23718"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68674,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23718\/revisions\/68674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23718"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=23718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}