![]() I don’t make a lot of appearances anymore, but I took my kids to a comics convention recently and this little African-American boy came up to me in his homemade Miles Morales Spider-Man costume, which are not available to purchase. ![]() ![]() Take the word of Brian Michael Bendis, creator of Miles Morales: The arguments for diversity in superhero film are as well established as the preconceptions that keep it from happening. But I’m not entirely certain how to feel about his statement, coming, as it does, so close to a response that completely shuts down the idea of a brown kid as Spider-Man and then dances around the actual reasons why with some lame excuses about being “true” to Peter Parker. To be fair, Amazing Spider-Man 2 cast Jamie Foxx in the role of Electro, a character who has always been white in the comics, and Arad’s upcoming Fantastic Four reboot will feature the Storms as a multi-racial family.
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