10 Best Comic First Issues This Week (Dec 12, 2018)

10. Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1

With Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse now in theatres, there was very little doubt that a new Miles Morales-led book would be launched - and it isn't bad.

As the cover says, this is a new direction for the character. It is not bad by any stretch, but is it good? The character of Miles has changed a bit to try and make him more hip to the socially-minded youths rather than how he had been written as a character prior, even seeming to be artistically aged up to look more like a young college kid more than a high schooler. That isn't a bad thing necessarily but it also means that there's a lack of really explaining who Miles is outside of now-standard generalized points.

The plot isn't bad either, although it is only in the second half of the book when there's more of a plot than just explanations of who Miles is. Spidey has a decent fight with Rhino, mistaking him as the ringleader of a crime in progress before the shocking twist (for anyone who reads this, yes that is a terrible pun).

Overall the altered version of Miles is not bad and a very well-written shift in who the character is to take the character in a new direction for the first solo outing not penned by Brian Michael Bendis.