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The New Fifty-Tw... I mean All-New Ultimate Spider-Man No. 1
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'Snoop-Dogg is totally in a Spider-Man comic' 'Fan letters are pretty annoying' Anyone read this? I know it's in a bag and all but it's ok, you can open it. I have to say that I really enjoyed this and, aside from the incredibly random circumstances behind Miles receiving his Spider-Powers, I felt like just the fact of another Spider-Powered person occurring kind of made sense. Now, we already had a big discussion about how huge of a betrayal and a disgrace to every red-blooded God-fearing American geek it is for them to kill Marvel's B-List version of Peter Parker which was obviously only done for the sake of affirmative action and totally not to add any sense of meaning to Marvel stories or respect the diversity of their audiences personal experiences and backgrounds, but what's done is done. [/sarcasm] I'm a little more interested/ concerned about the setting Miles is in and how his parents and neighbors are being portrayed as well as if and how this is having the impact the writers intended. There are a lot of cliches and tropes being thrown around here - Like I said, one of the characters is totally modeled after Snoop Dogg and is implied to probably be a smooth-talking drug dealer. There are other more benign characters in there as well, but, at least for now, they appear to be no less of a stereotype. I'm concerned that I'm reading too much into it, but since I have no real-life frame of reference for inner-city life in a poor and/or ethnic neighborhood, and Miles' situation is basically what I kind of think that's like, I have to assume that it's pulling from every late 80s movie about life on the street up to and including Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Buggalo.
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But yeah, the comic's alright.
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09-15-2011, 08:52 PM
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Huh. Ok I totally thought that was Dead Pool. My mistake.
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The bit of this that I saw online give me hope that Miles Moralez indeed has what it takes to become a successful and well-regarded character and remains so for the next ten to twenty years it will take for some douchebag with a grudge to come along and throw him out for the character HE cares about from HIS
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Not great, but not even remotely bad.
This issue was just alright. Don't particularly care for the set-up of how Miles gets his powers. It feels a little after the fact but it doesn't make any major continuity problems. I did like Miles' family dynamic. Right off the bat I like his parents and I even like his uncle who turns out to be the newly introduced Ultimate Prowler. Right here we have a set-up that has me interested.
I'm hoping Bendis doesn't see fit to kill off a member of Miles' family because Miles isn't Peter Parker. He doesn't have to lose someone. Right here we have a kid who's parents are trying to push him towards a better life than they had and I think that right there is a good motivation to stick with. Him as Spider-Man might make sense if it comes from his desire to do well in life. The uncle is a character I'm looking forward to seeing expanded. The inevitable conflict with Miles, no matter how far down the line it may come, is something that I'm looking forward to immensely. I miss Pete, he was my hero growing up, but I'm willing to give the kid a chance.
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Ultimate Spider-man launched in 2000, and was a big hit. Anyone in their teens or early twenties grew up with the Ultimate line as a potential childhood/teenage favorite. Seriously, deal with it. Anyways, fifth, got that sample?
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