Spider-Men II #1 Review

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis / Artist: Sara Pichelli / Marvel Comics Let me just start this by stating a fact. Brian Michael Bendis writes the funniest bars for Spider-Man, Peter Parker. That’s just facts right there. We gotta respect that off the strength alone. I’m talking top 3 writers for witty Spider-Man dead or alive. When he has Parker going extra wordy for the joke, reacting genuinely surprised, or joking around while knowing when he is fucked in a dire situation, that’s peak Spider-Man. Vintage. We gotta respect that. That being said, can I get a count on the number of times we’ve had an unmasked Miles Morales in a Bendis issue? What are we up to now? Parker is catching up that quota too. I feel like it’s a quota now. How Miles hasn’t been doxxed on the 616 Reddit yet or all over TMZ is beyond me, but I’m getting ahead of myself.

We meet Peter and Miles in a very high risk, do or die, situation that doesn’t turn out for the best and leaves Peter kicking himself for having allowed Miles to become Spider-Man. Keep in mind, Peter knows something about Miles from the 616 (after a Google search) that he feels should have been enough to stop Ultimate Universe Miles (now in our world as a permanent resident) from being Spider-Man. We then flashback to a week earlier, when Miles notices how attractive a classmate has gotten (that he hadn’t noticed before), one Barbara Rodriguez. Ganke is doing Miles a solid by getting a conversation going between the two and Barbara is qui…