marvel miles morales a spider man novel jason reynolds

He came across as selfish and whiny and I couldn’t wait to get away from him any time he appeared in the book. I had to check in with a friend who’s a long-time comic reader to get the scoop on what this was all about.Īnd I was not a fan at all of Morales’ best friend Ganke. Perhaps the young reader wouldn’t be so attached to an older character, or perhaps those picking up this book already know about this reboot, but given the popularity of the Spiderman movies (with Parker as Spiderman) it would seem to me that some sort of explanation of how/why this new name, new character would be in order. The story itself was a little dull, though I recognized that much of it might appeal to a young student.īut mostly I spent much of the book wondering what the heck was going on and whatever happened to Peter Parker. There was a lot that I liked about this book, mostly dealing with a minority teen having unique powers. The plot doesn’t show up until half way through the book, though a sub-plot, dealing with typical teen issues (boy-likes-girl) is set up early and the sub-plot does flow into the plot. It definitely has a bit of a darker tone than what I would expect in a story for middle-schoolers, but I really appreciated this ‘minority’ teen look at how to deal with super powers as well as school.

When Miles and his father both receive letters from a teen in jail, claiming to be Aaron’s son, they are taken by surprise. His uncle Aaron and his father were estranged, due to Aaron’s shady past, but Miles had a close relationship with his uncle (despite his father’s warnings to stay clear of him). On the non-superhero side of the story, Miles learns that he has a cousin he never knew about. But Miles’ spidey sense gets a little weird when he’s around Chamberlain and he (Morales) has been having some very strange dreams and he finally decides to investigate things a little more. Chamberlain almost goes overboard in his taking his top students down a notch or two. Morales, and his best friend Ganke (who knows about Morales’ spidey powers), are feeling the pressure from a pretty nasty teacher by the name of Chamberlain. – but the background heritage of Morales provides for some very different insight into being a superhero from the very white Peter Parker. There are some similarities between Parker and Morales – teen, bright, radio-active spider bite, etc. I grew up with Peter Parker as Spider-Man, but there’s a new Spider-Man on the block and it’s Miles Morales, a teenager who is half African-American and half Puerto Rican.Īlthough it isn’t explained, I get the sense that this is not a second Spider-Man, but that this is the Spider-Man in a rebooted universe. You know you’re getting old when little things that you thought would never change, suddenly change.

Marvel miles morales a spider man novel jason reynolds