10 Things You Need To Know About The Future Of Marvel

By Tom Baker /

10. Miles Morales Is Now In The 616

Honestly, the best days of the Ultimate universe are way behind it. What began as a dynamic, inventive publishing line that saw Marvel updating some of their biggest characters for the 21st century (and all the new comics readers tempted in by the superhero movies) fell into a sad, mostly-decimated dystopian alternate world. Still, there's at least one thing worth salvaging from the whole sorry mess: Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man who replaced Peter Parker after his death, much to the chagrin of totally racist conservative commentators like Glenn Beck. Miles might have been a more compelling Spidey than even teen Peter. And he's definitely going to make it through. Marvel have said as much, and he's already popped up in a few issues of All-New X-Men, where he teamed up with the displaced mutants from the main universe. He and regular Peter Parker met in the Spider-Men miniseries, too. Expect a new Miles book, probably with a confusing title.