ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #19
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • SARA PICHELLI (A/C)
VENOM WARS BEGINS!!!
• Miles finally has his costume, his web shooters, and now he has his first A-list Spider-Man villain! There’s a new Venom in town and he’s hungry!
• All this, plus Miles’ new girlfriend and the return of award-winning Ultimate Spider-Man artist Sara Pichelli!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 [SOURCE]

• he’s not threatening in the slightest
• he’s a tiny kid with big eyes
• he’s desexualized in the narrative as he is a child and thusly not playing on age old stereotypes as the sexually-aggressive black male in culture/media that has always been used as a threat and the reasoning behind the treatment of african american men in america from slaver to this day (why the go to criminal in fake cases is this strange big black man as opposed to a white dude)
• he’s drawn in such a way that emphasizes the fact that he’s young and he’s cute and harmless as shit
• you’re made to feel bad for him often because of the narrative
• he doesn’t technically exist because the ultimates earth isn’t the main marvel earth (but let’s see what happens when they touch on Miles in the 616)
• he’s not actually usurping or threatening anyone’s position because a) 616 is the main verse and b) we all know that the second they can, they’ll bring peter back into that universe

When Miles Morales happened, there was an internet reaction. To be more accurate, there was an internet shitstorm, the kind you get when BIG, IMPORTANT THINGS happen to superheroes the general public actually knows about, or knows of, at least. You had people turning out in droves who hadn’t read a comic in years, if ever, going on about how Peter was being killed off for ‘political correctness’, ‘liberal agenda’, ‘affirmative action’, with a bunch of racist slurs compounding the whole thing. These people, of course, didn’t know that Pete was only dead in an alternate universe, but sometimes this didn’t even matter. There were a lot of hardcore comic fans who felt the same way, that Pete HAD to be Spider-Man, alternate universe be damned, or they were still (understandably) angry over the death of Pete in the first place.

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man’s Mile Morales and his first TV appearance. Episode 21 of season 1, plot is that Midtown High is putting on a play all about Spider-man, Coulson is in charge of this and when Peter tries to find out if he will be playing himself he learns he is actually Coulson’s fifth choice right after Miles Morales. Now yes this makes no sense because in the Ultimate Marvel uninverse Miles is 13 years old and goes to a private school plus here he looks much older compared to Peter. Now this show is on Disney so we know they will not ever have a hero shot, murdered and replaced, but this is a nice little easter egg that I am glad I caught. (Taken with Instagram) [SOURCE]

ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN #18
BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (W) • DAVID MARQUEZ (A&C)
• The world is at war and Miles Morales is miles from home!
• Miles has joined the Ultimates but that decision may have cost him his family.
• Our young super hero has to make some big decisions and he has to make them now!
• Guest-starring the ULTIMATES!
32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 [SOURCE]

Sarah Pichelli won the Most Promising New Talent of the 2012 Harvey Awards
Nick Bradshaw, Astonishing X-Men, Marvel Comics
Nathan Edmondson, Who Is Jake Ellis?, Image Comics
Laura Lee Gulledge, Page By Paige, Amulet Books
Justin Jordan, The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, Image Comics
Sara Pichelli, Ultimate Spider-Man, Marvel Comics [SOURCE]

What's tougher than being a Marvel Comics super hero? Being a legacy hero, especially if the person who preceded you casts a long shadow. Miles Morales, star of "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man" is currently finding this out. In Marvel's Ultimate Universe, teenager Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man died late last year while defending his beloved Aunt May from the onslaught of a number of his deadliest enemies. Miles, who had received spider powers earlier in a similar accident involving a spider bite, was on hand to witness Peter's death and that inspired him to pick up the mantle of Spider-Man.

Unfortunately for Miles, Peter Parker's death moved a lot of people, many of whom were less than thrilled to see someone following in his footsteps, especially a 13 year-old boy like Miles. The Ultimate Universe's new Spider-Man is a determined and heroic kid though, and he's slowly been winning the approval of some of his detractors. In "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man" #14 by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist David Marquez, Miles received two endorsements that will go a long way toward legitimizing his claim to the Spider-Man identity. CBR spoke with the creators about the endorsements and their upcoming plans for the series.