
For the first time:
Meet Miles Morales, a half-black, half-Hispanic American teenager who, inspired to do good after the death of Parker at the hands of the Green Goblin, takes flight and has his first fight in the pages of Marvel Comics' "Ultimate Fallout" No. 4, in comic shops on Wednesday.
Alyssa Rosenberg thinks this is progress of a sort. Adam Serwer's support is more full-throated.
(Photo from comedian Donald Glover, whose campaign last year to be cast in the new Spiderman movie kicked off a firestorm about race and comic book characters.)