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everyone who called me hysterical for saying they made miguel a latin lover sex object owes me $50 each

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Maybe someone's asked you this before, but if you had a chance to write a 2099 series (for this new universe), what would you do?

Not to sound like an after-school special sentiment, but I'd honestly love to see what a Mexican-American writer could do with Miguel O'Hara's original origin story for our current modern audience.

Like, what could they as writers bring to the table that PAD was unable to, or not able to without coming off as extremely dated (racist/anti-Mexican)?

It wouldn't necessarily have to be something like, say, Blue Beetle (2006), tone-wise, that's the level of care and attention I'd love to see for Miguel in the Marvel universe. Honestly.

But, me, personally, I'd just avoid any and all time travel narratives that displace Miguel from his universe, and build on the world that was established. The age of Heroes, the 2099 Heroes/Villains.

The class politics of Neuva York. How does someone level in a future that is so mechanized that nature itself seems utterly destroyed? What impact does that have on the human body, and our ability to survive?

How could his family figure more into his stories outside of guest spots? How could his fractured (or not fractured) relationship with Xina or Dana look like outside of the first volume?

How could I incorporate Tempest or Gabri into his storyline without time travel? Y'know, those kinds of questions are things I'd love to see explored and would probably be my chief concern as a writer.

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comic books hate abuse survivors so so so badly

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Sorry if this is annoying but how do you feel about Miguel's new suit in ATSV instead of his og suit?

You're good, it's no problem.

I don't have any particular issue with it. It's close enough to the original Rick Leonardi design without being completely radical. I even like the distracting visual effect in the red of his suit.

I'm always gonna miss the tattered webbing cape and wish it showed up more. Most artists seem eager to do away with that aspect of his design (which is a shame imho).

It's fairly close to how the suit looked in Spider-Man: Edge of Time from 2011, which was the first time I realized that a lot of artists (including Leonardi himself) viewed the color of Miguel's suit as blue and not black (which is how I always saw it).

If I have any issue with Miguel's design in ATSV, it's how hulking huge they made him compared to how they designed him for the post-credits scene for ITSV.

Like, I'm not gonna pretend that Leonardi and Wil Sliney didn't also play into the Statue of David idealism with Miguel, especially in the suit, but

my guy was a character with a proportionately "slim" and "athletic" figure for most of the time they worked on their respective SM2099 titles. ATSV decided to give him the Johnny Bravo treatment and make him top heavy (most likely to play into the "scary" and "animal" bits of their characterization in opposition to Miles, which, again, is extremely racialized).

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"Smile!"

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After a long art block, I finally managed to sketch something again with these two!

I want to show the Similarities that Father and Daughter share, I'll do more about this subject ^_^ Same questioning look, same way to eat, but Gabi prefers burritos!

MY COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN! If interested, please send me an e-mail: [email protected]

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summer with the o'hara's <3

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Are you really friends if you don't pull pranks on one another

also yes Kron did the same thing but its different bc this is Xina and Xina is cool ALSO I CAN'T DRAW HANDS BUT WE WONT TALK ABOUT THAT

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The post(s) I've seen on my dashboard discussing the explicit and weasel-y language used to describe Miguel O'Hara in the script for Across the Spiderverse, doesn't surprise me.

Doesn't surprise, but otherwise confirms what I was feeling about how they approached the character wasn't at all inaccurate.

And to top it all off, their language towards Gwen Stacy's father, or and cops in general (including Jeff Morales), is couched in the most blatant "good cops, bad apples" sentiment.

And, when you think about the fact that Miguel O'Hara's character was established and lives in a future where all of Nueva York is a Judge Dredd-type police state, and he is routinely attacked by said police? A script calling him an "animal" but asking the audience to capitulate sympathy for Officer Stacy, is some ole bullshit.

These fools really decided that, out of all the Spider-Man affiliated characters to use in their movie about Miles Morales, they were gonna pick the Spider-Man character whose entire narrative was antithetical to their storytelling.

And then on top of that, create a "utopian" Nueva York specifically to cast criticism on Miguel as a character, who is a cop-esque character hunting down a Black teenager.

I've seen the argument that if he'd been characterized as he was in the comics (leaning more towards whiteness than anything), the writer's sympathies might've been for him. I honestly don't think that'd be the case.

In a lot of ways, Miguel's character is defined by the fact that he is Mexican first before he's white. It's like how Miles was advertised as "Half-Black, Half Puerto-Rican" and that colored everything about Miles as a character was approached pre-Into the Spiderverse. Specifically what parts of his character weren't addressed.

I think you can make the argument of how Miguel was initially promoted to the masses in the 90s ("he's not the nice Spider-Man") carried with its some uncomfy ideas about Mexicans and aggression. (And now carries the consequence of allowing certain writers to mishandle him.)

His whiteness is his access to capital (his job, etc), his general outlook, most of which forms so much of his story. Oppositely, his status as "half Mexican" is typically only used or mentioned in passing. A way to highlight the poverty of his dysfunctional family.

(It doesn't have the presence of say, Miles' connection to his culture through his parents and his neighborhood in the Insomniac game and PS5 sequel.)

And then there's his choice of costume (an outfit he modified from a Dia de los Muertos shindig) and sarcastic references to his status as a biracial child.

His being a biracial Mexican man, and the dystopian future he lived in has always been a big component in framing him as the "take no prisoners" Spider-Man legacy character. But, for all the problems that come with how PAD approached in his titles, there was always context for Miguel's actions and his environment.

And I feel like Across the Spiderverse stripped Miguel of that nuance.

It's also why we ended up with Bendis', "Who cares if I'm Black? I'm also half-Puerto Rican!" speech from Miles in the comics back in 2015/2016.

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pre-ATSV Miguel O'Hara stans are stronger than any US marine if a popular animated movie depicted my funky superhero fave as a hyper violent space-time cop that beefs with children AND everybody on the internet reduced him to a sex object because he's brown I would have killed myself fr

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"i should be allowed to call miguel an animal because we can call wolverine an animal" WOLVERINE IS A WHITE CANADIAN

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I wonder if Tempest might appear in the last Spider-verse movie? In that scene with Miles and the canon events (talking about how letting a person fated to die just die is messed up), there's a wash over the characters where each character's face (particularly Miles) is half green/turquoise and half pink (Honeybee's color scheme).

Honestly, I'm leaning on the side of "no".

Like most things that deal with Miguel's particular Spider-Man universe, almost nothing that isn't him (lately), a reference to (or literally) Lyla, and some variation of his classic costume is ever carried over into other media.

Nothing I've seen, even in the newer comics, deigns to even bring his brother, ex-girlfriend(s), or his parents into most of his current and then-current stories. And when they do, they kill them off real quick.

And I'd argue it's because comic books have become less about the day-to-day life of a superhero and more about structuring issues like blockbuster events.

I say this as someone who enjoyed Miguel's 2010s series with PAD, but it truly sucks that most of his universe is almost always left behind in favor being stuck in the past or another universe with whatever iteration of Peter Parker is running around. The explicit messaging is that he's the only thing worthwhile to reimagine and engage with for modern audiences. It's the same problem I have with Miles Morales' general lack of world outside of Peter Parker.

So, I feel like Tempest has less of a chance of appearing in the Spiderverse media than Xina and Gabri do. Again, I say this as someone who would love to see all of Miguel's world and relationships brought into his modern narratives.

Would it be cool? I dunno, maybe. I have an issue with how ATSV handled Miguel, so the idea of any his sweethearts appearing in future SV media just makes me concerned.

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Need to drill this into some fuckers' head, but Miguel O'Hara is a repressed, traumatized, depressed, STEM nerd, eldest immigrant child, not your papi chulo

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Miguel O'Hara - Spider-Man 2099 #01-#05 (2024)

Art by Nick Bradshaw

Connecting Covers Variants Art by Todd Nauck

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fuck you *life is stranges your o’hara bros*

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miguel, gabriel, xina, and kron as kids based on the canon! i forgot what anyone's eye color looked like tho

miguel really said he asked for no pickles alksdfj;aslkdfja;s