Miles Morales Spider-Man Comic Canceled By Marvel

*****Marvel’s “Fresh Star” comic intiative has resurrected the classic Wolverine, and the original Thor Odinson will be stepping back into the spotlight.*****

The only people surprised by the return of these classic characters are the same ones who thought DC was *really* gonna kill Superman. Pffft. Gimme a break.

*****X-23 will be abandoning the Wolverine mantle (somewhat more understandably, given that Logan’s back), Jane Foster’s Thor is being killed off, and now both Falcon and Spider-Man are being cancelled.*****

All of which makes sense. . .let's face it; if the Falcon/Spider-Man books were selling, they'd keep publishing them. No agenda to be seen here, except a corporation trying to make as much money as possible.

*****Just goes to show replacing established white heroes doesn't go well.*****

Sigh. What it actually goes to show is that good writing and great art will sell books. Nothing more, nothing less. Unless you really believe that if Alan Moore and Travis Charest decided to do a Miles Morales book, it wouldn't sell RIDICULOUS amounts of comics, for as many years as they cared to publish them.

*****Established black heroes like Black Panther is great however. Marvel should focus more on making new black heroes instead of just replacing already established white ones imo.*****

I actually agree a THOUSAND percent w/this, however. PLUS: Marvel's way of introducing these (clearly) diversity-driven hires into their Universe was so ham-handed, the characters were crippled from the outset. Combine the anger long-time readers had at the treatment of legacy characters with the inconsistent creative teams, and these concepts were doomed.

*****To be fair though black spider-man seemed to be doing decently so the cancellation was strange at best.*****

Nah. . .since last Feb, the sales on Miles' titles have been slipping precipitously. For all the reasons above, plus more.

Bendis screwing up an established hero? He wrote Ultimate Spider-Man for 18 years, and created what many, maybe most, Spider-Man fans consider the greatest, and most definitive, stories for the character. Even if you're partial to some other writer's run, you're in a tiny, tiny minority of you don't consider Bendis' Spider-Man stories among the best.

As for Miles, it seems his book is getting a different title in the post-Bendis era.

The only thing it goes to show is that when a non-white hero is introduced, a handful of sad racists pop up to whine about the good old days when all heroes were white and only villains were black.