One of the replies to the Miles asks if Miles has been out for long, and he has. He's been out for about two years, which is an asston of time in the comic book world. The issue about him is that he's shunted off to a side universe in the Marvel jumble of universes. In the main universe, which most of the movies are based in, Peter Parker is still alive and Miles isn't the Spider-Man. Miles HAS been gaining visibility because he's the first and only Person of Color to wear the Spidey mask(cont.)
The greatest thing they could have done was to introduce Miles Morales, because like the asker before me said, he’s new and exciting and still very much the downhome kid from Brooklyn. More folks know Peter than Miles because Peter is the accepted white face of Spider-Man, and others don’t know that there is another, darker one out there. And they should. Instead of trying to build another franchise in a sea of franchises, they could and should have gone with a new take on a classic name.
Yup~
For those playing along at home, here’s the response they’re talking about:
freshest-tittymilk said: but…like…miles hasn’t been out very long, right? what kind of sense would that be to jump into something w/o trying to build up a fanbase and visibility? more folks still know peter more than miles… at least give miles a TV show, or a webseries
FRANKLY (and fiscally) a TV Show/webseries would have been less of a gamble than launching a reboot with Miles, so that would have been a fine idea too.
(I was just talking about having a Black Spider-Man in the DONALD GLOVER 4 SPIDEY sense, tbh.)
Buuuut instead Miles didn’t get any additional media at all and they rebooted Spider-Man like five seconds after the first adaptation kinda-ended.
AND we got Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
so clearly logic and good ideas aren’t running this show.