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>>103999906 but the problem with Miles in 616 is that he really doesn't have anything going for him other than being black spider man. In Ultimates his dad was dead, his mom was always coming close to getting merc'd like Aunt May was to Peter in the Silver Age runs, and his uncle was an even bigger abomination than all the Osbornes put together. Plus he fulfilled a "need" in Ultimates since Peter was dead and except for UltJessica Drew, he was the only real Spidey. These things were great story hooks but now that he was ported into 616 with Molecule Man giving him everything he wanted, whats there to him? He has a dad, which he hates now because he's SHIELD agent with all the skullduggery that entails, his mom and aunt are alive and are just being snoops, he's going to the most Prescott of schools and the racism allegory falls flat because most of the students at his school are hyper-intelligent minorities like Kamala or "dude weed" silicon valley types. For the most part he's been mishandled and abused by the writers, especially Waid and the new writers for Champions. They want him to be endearing like peter, be connected to the streets/hood like Luke Cage, but also be Carlton on the side. The problem is that the writers can commit to any if the above for more than 5 pages which leaves him as an amorphous blob of nothing, jumping from one hoop to the next without lasting impact or relate-able/logical context.
