Marvel Finally Lets Peter Parker Grow Up, With A Sinister Twist
Warning: contains spoilers for Miles Morales: Spider-Man #38!
Marvel has finally listened to Spider-Man fans who wanted an older Peter Parker in the comics — but now his life is even more tragic. Spider-Man is one of the most relatable characters in superhero comics thanks to his daily struggles in balancing his personal life with his role as a costumed crimefighter; making Parker a teenager who didn't have all the answers also helped fans relate to the hero. But in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #38, Miles Morales finally meets an older Peter Parker...but with a rather horrific twist.
One of the first teenage superheroes who wasn't a sidekick, Spider-Man is arguably Stan Lee's most famous creation. With a tragic backstory and a heaping amount of flaws, Peter Parker was immediately relatable to the general Marvel readership at the time, which mostly consisted of teenagers and young adults who were themselves struggling with their own lives. Perhaps because of this, Marvel was and is incredibly reluctant to allow Peter to age (he spent roughly a decade in high school and even longer in college). Today, Peter is canonically between 25 to 30 years old — but not a day older.
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In Miles Morales: Spider-Man #38 written by Saladin Ahmed with art by Christopher Allen and Alberto Foche, Spider-Man and his adoptive clone brother Shift are thrust into an alternate reality in which an evil clone, Selim, rules Brooklyn as a ruthless dictator. Though decades have passed, Selim remains young thanks to a machine that slows or even prevents his aging altogether. Joining up with the local resistance movement, Miles and shift fight their way through Selim's
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