Wait is Marvel making yet ANOTHER SpiderMan incarnation or is Stan Lee criticizing Miles?
Either way people shouldn't care about a black SpiderMan or a racial swapped superheroes for its MAINSTREAM WESTERN SUPERHERO COMIC BOOKS *cough*DC*cough*Marvel*cough*
They've been doing this crap for decades even before the time of SJWs and modern day pandering. We've had a black Green Lantern, Nick Fury was made black (shocker Nick Fury used to be white and Nick Fury isn't even a superhero moniker that is his real name), Captain America is now black (Falcon), Thor is a chick, and we have had a Japanese SpiderMan before which is canon and a Japanese Spawn which may or may not be canon. Frank Castle (Punisher) literally became black for a while.
It was a story arc in which Frank had a surgery so he can go unnoticed but the surgeon went a bit extreme and made him black.....so he was a white guy with a black appearance and he had to deal with prejudice and bigotry.
If anything gender swapped heroes are usually more of a problem than racially swapped ones.
http://www.comicvine.com/profile/rawhidekid/lists/female-versions-of-male-characters/28895/
Because like 80% of male superheroes have one.
People here have been saying they should make a new original character and have him stand on their own feet as a new character beside the likes of Batman and Spiderman. You guys seem to forget this Marvel and DC were talking about.
A. They have universes like straight up multiple universes loaded with thousands of superheroes with a variety of powers. Anything NEW they do at this point would not be considered new for them for they've done everything at this point. These are the same guys who will reboot an entire universe and retell the same stories but with some alterations. Even some of the original superheroes aren't that original to begin with.
B. Due to the over saturation of superhero material in the west any new hero would just fizzle out with the Batmans, the Supermans, the Avengers, the X-Mens, the SpiderMens, etc. Also people need to stop comparing comic books to video games. Comic books is a completely different medium than video games and have been around far longer as a result as a completely socio-economic structure of how people consume them. There hasn't been a new major superhero in over a decade now. White, black, Asian, red or blue any new superhero will never reach Superman, Spiderman, Ironman, Batman, or whatever status of recognition no matter how original and creative they are or how amazing their story is unless its by another company or Marvel/DC decide to push that new character like really heavily.
My biggest issue is the fact people (that also means Stan Lee) have a problem with a black or non-white SpiderMan when we have MULTIPLE different versions of SpiderMan, SpiderMan from the future, noir SpiderMan, a Man-Spider SpiderMan, SpiderWoman, we even for a while we had FREAKING DOC OC as SpiderMan (DOCTOR OCTOPUS, ONE OF SPIDERMAN'S GREATEST NEMESIS, WAS SPIDERMAN FOR A WHILE), etc. This stuff is normal with Marvel and DC. We have multiple different people who were Batman (one of which was a freaking vampire), 4 Robins, 3 different guys who were Green Lantern (maybe more), 3 different Flashes, a female counterpart to every freaking male superhero, kid versions of the same heroes (Superboy, Kid Flash, and more), Iceman is now gay, also the Joker is now some type of demon/ghost, and this is how Superman and Batman looks now.
Plus this is only one universe (I think its the Ultimate Universe) in which Peter is replaced with Miles, a black/latino kid, as SpiderMan so in every other universe especially the Spectacular universe SpiderMan is still white/Peter Parker (although it was Spectacular universe in which Doc Ock was SpiderMan for a while and he wanted to be a much better SpiderMan than Peter but it didn't last long.....for obvious reasons and Peter somehow came back and is now SpiderMan). Both the Spectacular and Ultimate universe are running at the same time so we still have white Peter Parker.
If a black Spiderman bothers you, if changing a superheroes race/gender bothers you, if multiple versions of the same character bothers you, if you don't like drinking stale milk than you shouldn't be reading Marvel and DC comics. Gender bending, race bending, whatever are practically tropes in the American superhero comic book industry at this point.
My main gripe is not the fact Spiderman is now black but how they did it. It would've been better if they followed the Robin or Batman Beyond route of having Peter want to quit vigilantism and settle down and have a normal life so he can marry Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy, or whatever bitch he is giving the D to at the time. So he finds or ends up finding some kid of the streets with the drive and potential to one day be is successor and help raise him to be the next SpiderMan or defender of New York City. Not freaking kill him off and completely replace him with Miles.
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They can also go the Robin/Supergirl route in which Miles is SpiderMan or SpiderMan's apprentice (SpiderBoy or SpiderLing) for a while and eventually branch off to become his own hero like Nightwing (first Robin), Red Hood (third Robin), and PowerGirl (Supergirl)....like Black Widow (shame that is already taken would've worked really well with Miles character and his current costume design).
