Marvel's Brian Michael Bendis on Late Night with Seth Meyers

^ lmao

"Spider-man would make sense as a kid of color"

A) Why?

B) why is that applause worthy?

@neonrehan

I still don't really so how being a minority would make Spider-man make more sense. But regardless, the "trend" is more about replacing heroes with minorities for 5 minutes, claiming you're doing something about diversity, and then going back to status quo. Or at best pulling a Miss Marvel. When they should just be creating new characters, not forcing minorities to take hand me down monikers.

technically these are new characters to many generations. If you're alive to see the change, then consider it a privilege of having both worlds to draw from. For future generations, this could be their Miss Marvel, or their Spider-Man. Then if what you say is true, and Marvel does another switcheroo in 50 years, you may have a hispanic-black kid making the equivalent observation and posing the question "why does Marvel just change the ethnicity of the character to meet diversity quota"?

I think you can do both, you can create new characters and insert new amalgamations of existing stories (eg. Green Lantern). The brand is important, and how you re-identify with your current audience. I like Miles Morales and I love Peter Parker (Ultimate) and I never related with 616 Spider-Man. You could argue people have more qualms with Ultimate Comics stories than they did with any race change. Oh, and I believe it's really a moot point since Ultimate Comics is a new universe that has creative freedom to build their own separate audience pool without impacting die-hards of 616.

Then again, Secret Wars just made everyone an enemy I guess. Paradox, paradox, paradox.

I love how Bendis looks like Wilson Fisk but sounds like a twelve year old.