The half African-American and half Puetro-Rican incarnation of Spider-Man has been promoted to be an official member of the Marvel Comics universe, according to the Daily News.
Last year, it was announced that Childish Gambino was selected to voice the teen-aged Spider-Man in the forthcoming Disney XD Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors.
In this series, which is slated to arrive in comic stores, tablets and smartphones this fall, Spider-Man is a teen named Miles Morales.
Series writer and co-creator Brian Bendis explains the reason behind changing the race of the character.
“Many kids of color who, when they were playing superheroes with their friends, their friends wouldn’t let them be Batman or Superman,” he says during an interview with the Daily News, “because they don’t look like those heroes but they could be Spider-Man because anyone could be under the mask.”
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The news of Childish Gambino’s role in the Spider-Man comic ran on HipHopDX last year.
HipHopDX’s original story today (June 23) should have placed its emphasis on the promotion of the Black Spider-Man to the official Marvel Comics universe.
He’s already done that last season. Where’s the source that he’ll be leading his own series?
That is the exact question we need answered. :/
He voiced miles last season, this isn’t news
You guys need to do better research. That Bendis quote is in regards of the new Miles Morales COMIC coming after Secret Wars. He is going to be the primary Spiderman of the marvel comics universe.
Also Donald Glover was already the voice of miles morales on Spiderman: Web Warriors, which aired this past season by the way…. You guys are super late on that one.
Come on guys… Don’t be lazy.
There is already a show called Spider-Man Web Warriors. This is terrible journalism. Oh an intern wrote it? Makes sense. Youtube all the key words right now, “web warriors” “miles morales” “donald glover”, You will find multiple episodes from the season. Not only that but this so-called-writer takes a quote from this comic writer, Bendis completely out of context. He was talking about a new comic book series with miles morales. Not TV show where Donald Glover is the voice. This is why we can’t have nice things. I’m about to post this all over reddit to expose this shotty fake journalism. Surprised you got so many fools retweeting spiderman news from over year ago, bravo. Even the daily news link you sourced says COMIC, not TV show. This s*** is hilarious, I gotta tweet Bendis and Marvel this garbage. Please tell me HipHopDX trying to act like the Onion now.
bahahahahahaha
C’mon, guys. Do a quick Google search. Gambino already voiced Miles Morales, and Web Warriors has been cancelled for months now. Get it together.
Web warriors was not cancelled. In fact ultimate Spider-Man was renewed a few weeks back.
LOl this is old AF. People retweeting the hell out of this. ya’ll fools got suckered. DX losing some cred…
Ya’ll should let me write for u real quick. yall hear schoolboy q announced his new album called Oxymoron? Oh wait thats old news? Perfect, i hear yall like to post that sh**
#becausetheinternet
this is OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi.
Web Warriors is not part of the MCU.
Childish has already voiced Miles, but it’s cool that this will be regular.
The race of Spiderman was not “changed”. Miles Morales is a totally different character from Peter Parker.
I’m disappointed in you.
“Many kids of color who, when they were playing superheroes with their friends, their friends wouldn’t let them be Batman or Superman.” This is utterly made up.
Whoever made this better lose there job. He has not “officially joined the marvel universe” Miles has been around for years
Donald Glover voiced him for one episode and that was over a year ago
Don’t both outing in editors notes. Just delete this article all together
Great, get the whitest black man to play the black spiderman. Genius.
The whitest black man?
I mean, (besides the skin grafting surgies of micheal jackson which of course leads to black AND white jokes), is that some sort of paradox? Donald Glover isnt playing a camelion. He’s been prettttty excited about this idea of playing black spiderman for a while now.
I thought that the lesson society was supposed to have learned during the Rachel Dolezal controversy was that race is just a social construct, and doesn’t actually exist in the first place…
The paradox is that everything is becoming so hyper-racialized to the point of absurdity these days, that the logical inconsistencies of the politically correct movement of the last twenty years are starting to conflict with everyone’s “personal truth.”
Completely ignoring the fact that this article is flat out wrong about which character Donalf Flovwe already voiced a whole year ago, It couldn’t hypothetically just be neat that Donald Glover would be playing Peter Parker because he would personify the character well, since race is the hot topic and controversy sells; Yet on the other hand we have people like You effectively saying Donald Glover isn’t “black enough to be black-Spider-Man”
I for one cannot wait to see this whole divisive, fallacious “make everything about race while accusing everyone else of making everything about race” school-of-thought collapse under the weight of it’s own insanity so we can all start appreciating the value of each other’s cultures without being made to feel that we have to denigrate our own in the process.
/rant
Childish Gambino over your mother…
He’s not black he’s black and Latino. Plus Gambino is not “whitest black” (whatever that means) I mean he’s a rapper (one of my favorite I mite add)
lol black ppl cant even come up with their own superheroes without dickriding white ones lol..clothes, superheros, language, technology..white man does everythign for black ppl ctfuuu
Shut the fuck up you racist cunt.
How many black people relate to Donald Glover? Do they not relate to someone like Kendrick who’s lived like them, made some bad decisons but still decided to change his life for the better? That’s a true black man. Not Donald. It’s like saying Drake represents black folk, nah, he represents the white boys who like to act black and with that said, Drake is blacker than Gambino.
Childish Gambino – That Power.
Yal complain like some old hags . It’s a black spiderman on screen, that’s dope. When you were a kid you didn’t give a fuck who voiced it! Stop bitching about everything
Be glad there’s a black anything in comics, it’s always easy to create an image of a white guy and change his look a million and one ways, but black guys has but only 100 looks, so shut up about a black voice acting a Spiderman, try to like something different
anyone on here saying Gambino is not really black your dumb as hell and part of a huge problem anytime a black person is successful without ever being “hood” its a problem I don’t get it..u don’t see white people saying oh such an such isn’t really white be happy there are successful black ppl claim them all smh
Im all for an African American superhero ,kids can idealize. However the changing of spiderman to a differsnt race isnt exactly what I had I mind. The peter parker secrect idenity has a whole franchise and to be honest I liked it. How about next time creting a whole new superhero. And has noone ever heard of john stewart the origanal black green lantern.