Curt Franklin and Chris Haley of Let's Be Friends Again take a look at the death of Trayvon Martin, and the national dialogue it has sparked about stereotypes and prejudice, through the lens of the new Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales.
Cosplay: A team of Russian cheerleaders in Wonder Woman costumes form a pyramid with a little help from their civilian male teammates.
Music: The Mars Volta's upcoming concept album will be called Noctourniquet, and feature music inspired by Solomon Grundy, among other topics.
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Miles Morales is only a few fan months old, but the new star of Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Sara Pichelli is wasting no time populating -- at least vicariously -- Marvel's videogames. The bla
Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1 ships today, giving us our first real look at Miles Morales, the new half-black, half-Hispanic Ultimate Spider-Man. Miles will replace the late Peter Parker as the alternate dimension version of the webslinging hero, a change that writer (and character co-creator) Brian Micha
Kaare Andrews' cover for Ultimate Spider-Man #1 prominently features the costume of new Spider-Man Miles Morales, but for those who'd like to peep the hero behind the mask, interior artist Sara Pichelli's newly-unveiled variant cover may be what you're after. Written by Brian Michael Bendis, the issue arrives in stores on September 15. See the full cover image after the jump.
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Cartoonist Ty Templeton has tackled the negative reaction by a number of people in the mainstream media (and comics) to the new half-black, half-Hispanic Ultimate Spider-Man Miles Morales in a new edition of his regular Bun Toons comic. I predict this will clear everything up:
Meme generator N.M.A. TV is back with more cheap CG animated commentary on pop culture developments. While their brand of bizarre humor is usually aimed at depicting lighthearted news such as NBC's talkshow wars, the injur
The media has predictably worked itself into a frenzy over the news that the new Spider-Man of Marvel Comics's Ultimate line is going to be half-black and half-Hispanic, with right-wing commentator Glenn Beck bizarrely attributing the character to First Lady Michelle Obama, and the Drudge Report even more bizarrely suggesting that the character "could be gay." I mean, I don't know. I guess he could be gay, in the same way anyone you meet at random could potentially be gay. And yet I so rarely drop that afte
As is its wont, Marvel Comics revealed this morning in USA Today a major plot point of one of its most high-profile series, Ultimate Fallout. Specifically, the publisher confirmed the identity of the new Spider-Man of the Ultimate Comics Universe, which takes place in a continuity separate f