bigbear73's review
4.0
As a person who grew up reading Spider-Man, the idea of someone not Peter Parker wearing the mask worried and maybe even angered me. That being said; read about Miles, he's awesome.
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As a person who grew up reading Spider-Man, the idea of someone not Peter Parker wearing the mask worried and maybe even angered me. That being said; read about Miles, he's awesome.
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As a person who grew up reading Spider-Man, the idea of someone not Peter Parker wearing the mask worried and maybe even angered me. That being said; read about Miles, he's awesome.
manuelte's review
5.0
An extremely enjoyable start for the new Ultimate Spider-Man in town. Miles Morales is built to be great.
jammasterjamie's review
5.0
A fantastically told origin story complimented by pitch-perfect pencils and a great setup of the great things to come! Make mine Marvel! Make mine Miles!!
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A fantastically told origin story complimented by pitch-perfect pencils and a great setup of the great things to come! Make mine Marvel! Make mine Miles!!
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A fantastically told origin story complimented by pitch-perfect pencils and a great setup of the great things to come! Make mine Marvel! Make mine Miles!!
tehani's review
5.0
Finally got a chance to read this and thoroughly enjoyed - so did (nearly) 10 year old! He insisted I buy the next volume immediately!
tswizzlemcrizzle's review against another edition
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
mjfmjfmjf's review
4.0
And here for some reason I thought I had read the origin story of Miles Morales Spider-man, but apparently not. Actually this was pretty good. As an origin story in an alternate universe it could have been awful or lame but instead it was interesting and well done. And Miles is not Peter Parker and his friends are not Peter's friends. And the art was definitely good enough.
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And here for some reason I thought I had read the origin story of Miles Morales Spider-man, but apparently not. Actually this was pretty good. As an origin story in an alternate universe it could have been awful or lame but instead it was interesting and well done. And Miles is not Peter Parker and his friends are not Peter's friends. And the art was definitely good enough.
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And here for some reason I thought I had read the origin story of Miles Morales Spider-man, but apparently not. Actually this was pretty good. As an origin story in an alternate universe it could have been awful or lame but instead it was interesting and well done. And Miles is not Peter Parker and his friends are not Peter's friends. And the art was definitely good enough.
roxanamalinachirila's review
4.0
Anybody else here because of "Into the Spider-Verse"? (sees small show of hands) Good, good! Me too!
As far as I can tell, this is where Miles Morales, the new Spider-Man, first shows up. He gets bitten by a radioactive spider with a giant "42" written on its back (as if that answers any question at all) and gets new and cool superpowers such as invisibility, zapping people with venom, a spider-sense for danger and absolutely no sticky webs.
Miles doesn't want to be a superhero in a world in which there already are a lot of superheroes and the X-Men are rounded up and taken away (and it's no wonder), but that changes when Peter Parker is killed and he feels like he needs to pick up the mantle, so to speak.
As usual, the comics are super-filled with superheroes from all sorts of other series, but things are given time to develop and the overabundance of big names isn't suffocating (for once).
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Anybody else here because of "Into the Spider-Verse"? (sees small show of hands) Good, good! Me too!
As far as I can tell, this is where Miles Morales, the new Spider-Man, first shows up. He gets bitten by a radioactive spider with a giant "42" written on its back (as if that answers any question at all) and gets new and cool superpowers such as invisibility, zapping people with venom, a spider-sense for danger and absolutely no sticky webs.
Miles doesn't want to be a superhero in a world in which there already are a lot of superheroes and the X-Men are rounded up and taken away (and it's no wonder), but that changes when Peter Parker is killed and he feels like he needs to pick up the mantle, so to speak.
As usual, the comics are super-filled with superheroes from all sorts of other series, but things are given time to develop and the overabundance of big names isn't suffocating (for once).
As far as I can tell, this is where Miles Morales, the new Spider-Man, first shows up. He gets bitten by a radioactive spider with a giant "42" written on its back (as if that answers any question at all) and gets new and cool superpowers such as invisibility, zapping people with venom, a spider-sense for danger and absolutely no sticky webs.
Miles doesn't want to be a superhero in a world in which there already are a lot of superheroes and the X-Men are rounded up and taken away (and it's no wonder), but that changes when Peter Parker is killed and he feels like he needs to pick up the mantle, so to speak.
As usual, the comics are super-filled with superheroes from all sorts of other series, but things are given time to develop and the overabundance of big names isn't suffocating (for once).
Merged review:
Anybody else here because of "Into the Spider-Verse"? (sees small show of hands) Good, good! Me too!
As far as I can tell, this is where Miles Morales, the new Spider-Man, first shows up. He gets bitten by a radioactive spider with a giant "42" written on its back (as if that answers any question at all) and gets new and cool superpowers such as invisibility, zapping people with venom, a spider-sense for danger and absolutely no sticky webs.
Miles doesn't want to be a superhero in a world in which there already are a lot of superheroes and the X-Men are rounded up and taken away (and it's no wonder), but that changes when Peter Parker is killed and he feels like he needs to pick up the mantle, so to speak.
As usual, the comics are super-filled with superheroes from all sorts of other series, but things are given time to develop and the overabundance of big names isn't suffocating (for once).
oboyliz's review against another edition
3.0
Its a good story. I want to see where they go with this Spiderman and his story line. However I can't help but compare him to Peter Parker.
misssusan's review against another edition
5.0
I LOVE THIS COMIC SO MUCH. I was really excited about the concept when I heard of it, like we're rebooting Spiderman to be about an adorable black kid? Are you serious? We can have this, a POC as the solo lead for a title with popular brand recognition???
But at the same time what if it wasn't good? D: I can set those fears at rest now because this is an excellent comic. I really loved Miles Morales! I sympathized with his initial hesitation to become a superhero because wow yes, it would indeed be terrifying to have your body and skills suddenly change, especially with the anti-mutant prejudice running through this universe, and superheroing is a big responsibility to hand to a twelve year old! And that fear and hesitation and backtracking is what makes it so wonderful when he decides that yes, he is going to try to continue Peter Parker's legacy. I was with this kid 100% through the whole story.
(I was also periodically closing the book to make faces and attempt to process my feelings because seriously, I don't think you understand how much happiness this volume brought me)
I also really enjoyed the supporting cast: Ganke, Miles' parents and his uncle. They're all people I'd like to know more about (the first two for the sweetness and supportiveness they display and the latter because the writing is giving me great hopes that he's going to be a complicated villain, there are already interesting family dynamics in play there). Just. Great introduction. Great series. Excuse me while I go read volume two. 5 stars
But at the same time what if it wasn't good? D: I can set those fears at rest now because this is an excellent comic. I really loved Miles Morales! I sympathized with his initial hesitation to become a superhero because wow yes, it would indeed be terrifying to have your body and skills suddenly change, especially with the anti-mutant prejudice running through this universe, and superheroing is a big responsibility to hand to a twelve year old! And that fear and hesitation and backtracking is what makes it so wonderful when he decides that yes, he is going to try to continue Peter Parker's legacy. I was with this kid 100% through the whole story.
(I was also periodically closing the book to make faces and attempt to process my feelings because seriously, I don't think you understand how much happiness this volume brought me)
I also really enjoyed the supporting cast: Ganke, Miles' parents and his uncle. They're all people I'd like to know more about (the first two for the sweetness and supportiveness they display and the latter because the writing is giving me great hopes that he's going to be a complicated villain, there are already interesting family dynamics in play there). Just. Great introduction. Great series. Excuse me while I go read volume two. 5 stars
iffer's review against another edition
3.0
I'm really enjoying the Miles Morales run of Ultimate Comics Spider-man, with the caveat that I'm rating it as a comic book oriented towards pre-teen kids. It's fun and fast-paced, and I think that Miles is super relatable.
I really wish that more people would give this Spiderman run a chance, instead of letting their nerd-rage over the death of Peter Parker put them off. It bothers me that there seems to be a prevailing attitude that having a black kid with a Hispanic-sounding (he might also have mixed heritage, GASP) last name is just a politically-correct ploy to incorporate "diversity" into comics. This may be true, but from what I can tell so far, time and energy has been put into the character of Miles Morales and his back-story, so at least it doesn't *feel* like a cheap, late-game shot to try to appeal to readers other than the stereotypical locked-in white, male, older, relatively affluent fans.
Furthermore, the wide appeal of Peter Parker as Spiderman is that he's a "normal" guy including his reluctance to take up the mantle of superhero, especially since he wasn't trained to it since birth (e.g. Thor) or born to it (mutants), and the fact that he uses his wits, not only to fight bad guys, but to try to make a good life for himself and Aunt May. Miles Morales appeals in all these ways as a "normal" guy, and it bugs me that people seem to think, subconsciously or consciously, that a black Spiderman won't be relatable to a wide audience. For one thing, demographics in the US are changing, and maybe I'm just more accustomed to the idea since I live in a majority minority state (2/3 of the population is non-white), so whether people want to believe it or not, the new "normal" face of Spiderman (which is covered by a mask anyway...) would probably be darker-hued anyway. For another thing, I, an Asian-American female, was able to empathize with Peter Parker, so why is it so hard for fans to embrace Miles? He's endearing; trust me :)
I really wish that more people would give this Spiderman run a chance, instead of letting their nerd-rage over the death of Peter Parker put them off. It bothers me that there seems to be a prevailing attitude that having a black kid with a Hispanic-sounding (he might also have mixed heritage, GASP) last name is just a politically-correct ploy to incorporate "diversity" into comics. This may be true, but from what I can tell so far, time and energy has been put into the character of Miles Morales and his back-story, so at least it doesn't *feel* like a cheap, late-game shot to try to appeal to readers other than the stereotypical locked-in white, male, older, relatively affluent fans.
Furthermore, the wide appeal of Peter Parker as Spiderman is that he's a "normal" guy including his reluctance to take up the mantle of superhero, especially since he wasn't trained to it since birth (e.g. Thor) or born to it (mutants), and the fact that he uses his wits, not only to fight bad guys, but to try to make a good life for himself and Aunt May. Miles Morales appeals in all these ways as a "normal" guy, and it bugs me that people seem to think, subconsciously or consciously, that a black Spiderman won't be relatable to a wide audience. For one thing, demographics in the US are changing, and maybe I'm just more accustomed to the idea since I live in a majority minority state (2/3 of the population is non-white), so whether people want to believe it or not, the new "normal" face of Spiderman (which is covered by a mask anyway...) would probably be darker-hued anyway. For another thing, I, an Asian-American female, was able to empathize with Peter Parker, so why is it so hard for fans to embrace Miles? He's endearing; trust me :)