Peter Parker is Spider-Man.
Instantly, disabuse yourself of the silly notion this is a debate.
Miles Morales is from a feeling cute, might delete later…alternate reality.
If Kevin Feige and his team are determined to rudely shoehorn Miles into the MCU…change his superhero name.
Just like the other popular Spiders: Spider-Punk, Ghost-Spider, Spider-Ham, etc.
Don’t Be Lazy.
Marvel—especially the comics—has a long and terrible history of this type of gross laziness.
They had two simultaneous Wolverines…even though one was X-23.
Change The Name.
Steve Rogers was Captain America and at the same time so was Sam Wilson.
How does that make any sense?
It’s so dumb and so lazy and worse: as affirmative action it backfires.
Change The Name.
It’s not hard.
You can’t proudly brand yourself as The House of Ideas if you don’t have new ones.
Sammy Verdict: Change The Name.
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Sammy Younan is the affable host of My Summer Lair podcast: think NPR’s Fresh Air meets Kevin Smith: interviews & impressions on Pop Culture.
