Sony Pictures Entertainment Brings Marvel Studios Into The Amazing World Of Spider-Ma

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The problem with Miles is that he's really NOT "fresh" or "new", it's a Spidey retread with a different name and ethnicity, but with a very similar origin, powers (except the venom-blasts, which honestly just seem like a re-tread of Spider-WOMAN) and age. In fact, with Miles being even YOUNGER than Peter was originally, it just means we'd have to wait that much longer for him to grow up, and of course, that's the rub- he NEVER WILL. Because comic characters only age about five-ten years, and then stop there and get a reboot and/or ret-con. Talk about being a perpetual man-child!

And Zarius' Peter Pan analogy is unfortunately even more apt with Miles. He'll just be stuck in high-school forever, reliving the same problems ad infinitum, and won't even have the history Peter has to fall back on. He'll never get married and have kids of his own unless it's in a future timeline that will either get erased or will be in an alternate universe, he'll never get to have a job, and he'll never grow beyond a teen-ager inspired to be a hero by someone who held the same mantle before him. He'll FOEVER be in Peter's shadow, even in his own universe.

What some consider "baggage" is actually Peter's rich and complex history, with decades of stories and characters to pull from, including having two clones running around- one of which has at various times tried to KILL him! That's not even counting the side-dramas of characters like Gwen's secret (and shocking) affair with Norman Osborne while Harry was ill after a drug overdose, the resulting kids from that affair, M-J's estrangement, the supposed abduction of their allegedly stillborn daughter, JJJ's axe-grinding and attempts to expose or capture Spidey.... There is so much material to mine. And what does Miles have? A few years worth of stories that mainly involve him taking over for Spidey, and then dealing with the same group of villains as his predecessor. (Haven't read the book itself, just followed a bit of the news on it, but there doesn't seem to be much there that is really "new".)