Spider-Man's Symbol Has Officially Become The Opposite of Superman's
Warning: contains spoilers for Miles Morales: Spider-Man #39!
Marvel's Spider-Man has a symbol that stands for the complete opposite of Superman's own, as the image of Miles Morales has been corrupted and twisted in a dark, dystopian future. The symbol has come to mean many different things in Marvel's New York: triumph for citizens and arrogance for the press, namely J Jonah Jameson. Now in Miles Morales: Spider-Man #39, the spider symbol stands for fear and oppression — for some very tragic reasons.
In previous issues, Miles Morales successfully defeated his doppelgängers in a Clone Saga of his very own. Unlike Peter Parker's infamous Clone Saga in the 90s, Miles was forced to contend with three: leader Selim, psychic Mindspinner and the impossibly-strong Shift. Miles eventually swayed Shift to his side and subsequently dispatched Mindspinner and Selim — or so he thought. Traveling to a dark future timeline, Miles and Shift were shocked to see Selim as the new ruler of Brooklyn, known now as the Empire of the Spider.
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In Miles Morales: Spider-Man #39, written by Saladin Ahmed with art by Alberto Foche, Miles and Shift link up with the small resistance movement that fights back against Selim and his troops. Ganke, now a much older resistance leader, tells Miles about his younger sister Billie, now a fighter herself.«All that evil crap Selim did...he did it under that spider symbol» says Ganke. Billie grew up around the oppression of the Empire of the Spider — and learned to hate the symbol, along with everyone else.
This is in sharp contrast to the emblem of Superman, which stands as a symbol for hope in the DC Universe (in some
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