Diversity Now: An Ultimate Spider-Man Addendum

I really want to see some Asian/Indian/Middle Eastern heroes. People have a tendency to complain about how there are so many of these people, and yet they don’t appear in comics aside from taxi drivers and store owners. I’m not going to count Shang-Chi due to his irrelevance and him being the requisite Asian Kung-Fu Master who occasionally teaches white people martial arts. There’s also Amadeus Cho, who was probably my favourite part of the Marvel’s Hercules comics. Right, and tentacle monster Kenji who showed up in Generation Hope counts as well. (He’s awesome by the way. Read Generation Hope) But that’s three guys at most, and two of them are hardly being used anymore.

Thankfully DC is starting to do something positive with the Middle East.

Ultimate Fallout: Ultimate Spider-Man Black

So word has been out for a few days now, and Ultimate Comics Fallout was released Sunday to a few quiet nods from people who know what an Ultimate Universe is, and a response from Glenn Beck (the man deserves his own special category). Since we have now officially gone through the process of mainstream media shrugging and/or vaguely acknowledging that a fictional character has died and replaced by another equally fictional character, I think it’s time we get some actually commentary on this.

I was pleasantly surprised when I read the news Wednesday morning that Spider-Man had been replaced by someone who wasn’t a white protestant Anglo Saxon. My initial response to the death of Peter Parker was “Oh, good, I can’t wait for a clone to replace him.” Let’s look at the easy way outs.