Miles Morales

Not gonna lie, he totally lost me at the reveal of the villain and the, I guess I’d call it, means they’re working with, but the rest of this book was excellent, fabulous, impactful, bang on content!

This book is false advertising because they put the phrase "Spider-Man" in the title. It's not about him. It's about Miles Morales and his dealing with personal reactions to social problems in an urban neighborhood. It's not worth reading it for anything Spider-Man related. By 25% of the book, don't you think he should have changed into Spider-Man? The fact that he hadn't made me put the book down and stop wasting my time reading. Miles feels he can't be Spider-Man because he is from a family of criminals. Instead of feeling he can be a bright shining example of someone who overcomes a bad environment, he feels the environment must conquer him and he can't even try to do anything good. Therefore, he must stop being Spider-Man. This book creates a situation similar to what it would be like if Clark Kent's boss threatened to fire him every time Clark disappeared to become Superman. If this threat made Clark want to stop being Superman so he could simply keep his job. That would never happen, but it is the motivation of the plot in this book. Miles can't be Spider-Man anymore, because every time he gets an alert to save someone he has to skip class at school. His dad tells him to stop thinking about other people and put himself first! I don't think the author of this book knew about Uncle Ben and the great responsibility that comes with great power. The main point of this book is that non white people have all kinds of social issues and poverty related troubles to deal with and being superheros is harder for them.