While he’s agile and athletic, he can in effect turn invisible, and has a form of sting. It still features a teenager, a radioactive spider, and an uncle, but the powers Miles acquires differ from the known. What’s more impressive is the way he twists Spider-Man’s origin for a new era. He’s always had a fine ear for dialogue, and uses that well to personalise Miles and his family, but that’s a known quantity. Under Brian Michael Bendis, Parker’s Ultimate incarnation had been a joy from beginning to end, and Bendis ensures much the same is the case for the Miles Morales version. Instead Miles Morales became Spider-Man, and this is a leisurely origin story introducing us to Miles, his family and friends, and his first, faltering steps as Spider-Man. In 2011 Marvel rebooted their alternate Earth Ultimate Comics line, and Peter Parker became surplus to requirement.
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