Will Miles ever get a well written love interest? It’s been 15 years since his debut. Or is he doomed to sloppy seconds?If it’s not Peter’s, then it’s Miguel, Norman and Hisako’s seconds
>>154608299Miles doesn't even have his own character
>>154608299Well, Game Miles is into this street artist girl who happens to be in his class, Hailey. She's deaf, and he picked up sign language to communicate with her more effectively. They also tend to use speech-text converters for on-the-swing conversations. It's pretty cute.
>>154608299The vulture's grandaugther thing is okayyy
>>154608299They should've paired him and Kamala back when the latter had good writing.
Give Peni to him.
>>154608299Bombshell is the only option I like but his writers hate white people too much for it to happen.
>>154608299>Many of the complaints could also apply to Peter. Remember how Peter’s girlfriends “enhanced” the stories? Well, you can’t really say that, because none of them actually improved the stories. If anything, the revisionism surrounding the Peter Parker Spider-Man stories has really clouded fans’ judgment about the problems with the character’s stories. That’s why lately I’ve been liking Spider-Man’s expys more than Spider-Man himself—because they’ve fixed most of the character’s problems. Just Static and Mad Men (partially inspired by Machine Robo) are much better characters than Spider-Man and have better stories.
>>154609970I mean, yeah you can say that. Mj and felicia absolutely improved the stories, they had real tangible arcs. Felicia by twisting the classic love intrest conflict in its head, and mj by actually getting a motivation /angle that made her a good foil for peter and thus meant she had to develop for them to get married. And then stories like last hunt ONLY work due to said relationship. What.
>>154609982That’s fanboy revisionism. I mentioned *Static* and *Mad Men* because both emphasize relationships, and unlike with Spidey, it’s built into the characters’ stories. It’s almost as if the writers were writing fanfiction about Spider-Man’s relationships, in which case they’re addressing the problems in the original series. Because in the original series, it’s completely inconsequential and, at best, a problem. Felicia doesn’t complicate Spidey’s life—that’s stuff from later, outsider material like the cartoons—and it took MJ years to get together with Peter. She was significant to the Goblin plotline, and even that wasn’t exactly planned by Stan and Ditko. It was just a “drug bad” thing.
>>154610029I mean, the nature of comics with shifting writers is that..its different writer's visions. And what, felicia absolutely complicates spidey's life in the run that she was made an actual love intrest. She literally got her powers from the kingpin in said run anon. And sure, it took years for MJ to get with peter, but it was ultimately a relationship that mattered to the book and that had real character development for both, again this started in the 70s (10 years in, miles is already 15 years in, its a fair comparason to make lol). The book isnt just stan and ditko's run. The drug thing wasnt EVEN DONE by stan and ditko, it was done by stan and romita.
>>154610092Also doesnt change the fact that ultimately it WAS a very revoltuionary dynamic later in the 80s too.
>>154610029You do realize the standards for writing love interests the same as in the 60s right?
>>154610176I think Spider-Man is really outdated. On one hand, that makes him interesting, but even that isn’t written into the character. Frank in *Mad Men* is intentionally written as an old-fashioned character, and he works better as a character than Peter does. Peter is a product of his time. I never know exactly who he is, but I know exactly how Frank and Virgil will act. That’s why the Civil War Spider-Man isn’t that out of character, because he’s just kind of a blank slate of a character.
>>154608299its pretty obvious tchalla made miles his wife a few months ago. miles learned so much, even met tchallas gods and ancestors.
