Looks like the decision of giving Spider-Man a massive makeover (replacing the white science geek, Peter Parker, with a half black half Latino teen, Miles Morales) has provoked some quite uncool reactions among readers of some of the newspapers where the change was announced… Even so, from what I understand (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) , the change only affects the Ultimate Marvel Universe’s Spidey.

Our friends at Geeks of Doom mentioned USA Today as an example:

The news was initially released on USA Today, and if you made the mistake of venturing into the Comments section (which, shame on you to begin with) you may have seen some particularly disgusting reactions to the news. Honestly, I don’t see what the big deal is. After the events of Death of Spider-Man, we knew that a new character was going to be taking over, so that’s not really a surprise. The only thing to be “shocked” about is the character’s ethnicity, and what difference does that really make? The story was always going to be about a new character trying to live up to the model of heroism that was established by Peter Parker. It doesn’t matter what the background of the character is, that’s all just set dressing. What’s important is how the writer will tell that story.

But, even those readers haven’t come up with something as “classic” as the one from the Daily Mail with his incredible:

“It feels like if you’re white, heterosexual, single, able-bodied, law-abiding, English and live in England you have no rights at all.”

Sorry, I’m still laughing out loud at that one…

You didn’t know Peter Parker was English, did you? Well, thanks to that Daily Mail reader, you’ve leaned something new today (bless him!)

All those very BNP and EDL (and their equivalent in the US) inspired comments are nothing new, though… I remember too well the very similar ones made when ‘Spiderman: India’ was announced. 

Sadly,  some people haven’t learned much since 2004.

Nothing New Under The Comic Books’ Sun…
We should all know by now  that, when it comes to superheroes, nothing is written (or drawn) in stone anymore… and many have already gone through changes.

But, as we’re focusing on Spider-Man in this post, we’ll just look at the many alternative versions of Spideys out there in general and, of course,  Spiderman: India (well, he is mentioned in the title after all) in particular…

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