"We have a character who now is part of the proper Marvel Universe, and there are all kinds of things going on in his world that he’s not related to yet, so we’re going to get to introduce those. There are Spider-Man villains that can’t get their hands on Peter Parker anymore because he’s out being an international globe-trotting superhero, so Miles is there being the traditional Spider-Man in the New York area. And that means people like Black Cat and Hammerhead are going to come at him. But they may not be ready for Miles, because he’s a completely different superhero. And he’s not going to be the only superhero in his class. We have a nice surprise coming in issue three of someone debuting that we’re not even going to hint at. All of this, plus his time as an Avenger, plus his time with younger heroes on the Avengers like Kamala and Sam — there are a lot of new team heroes that have a lot to offer each other in friendship and challenge. We are heading right towards Civil War II, and Miles is a very big part of that.
There’s the misconception by some that this is just about diversity or just about African-American Spider-Man. I hope that people who have heard about Miles in a positive way try this out because they’ll see that it is character first, book first and these other things that we’re talking about that mean so much they come out of that in their own — but this is all about as good a comic as we can and taking the idea of Spider-Man into new areas as best we can."
-Brian Michal Bendis to EW
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