At IGN, Ahmed said, “For my money, Spider-Man is, at his core, a teenage hero. In this book, Miles will be that Spider-Man: battling threats against the community and the city rather than the universe, and trying to do so while dealing with grades and bullies, family and botched dates. This is classic Spider-Man, but very much dealing with modern concerns and realities.”
Ahmed will be the first person to pen Miles’s solo adventures after the character’s co-creator, Brian Michael Bendis, left Marvel last year to work at DC, which caused his title to go on hiatus after May’s “Spider-Man” #240. Ahmed revealed “I’ve not spoken to Bendis, but he is absolutely brilliant, and his writing was one of the things that brought me back to super hero comics after years away. So of course there’s some intimidation factor. But ultimately you have to just respect the work and creation of those who came before you while still being confident enough to put your own stamp on the stuff. Superheroes are myths built with layers of story. If other creators hadn’t gone on to help define Peter Parker after Lee and Ditko, we wouldn’t have the Spider-Man we know and love today.”
Head on over to IGN for more from Ahmed, including his thoughts on Miles’s background, which classic Spider-Man villain he’ll pit him against first, and what role Aaron Davis will play in the book. “Miles Morales: Spider-Man” #1 will launch in December, around the same time as the character’s film debut in the animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
