Miles Morales: Grandes Responsabilidades

Miles Morales: Digest Size Collection #3

by Brian Michael Bendis

Homem-Aranha nunca mais? Nenhum dos incríveis poderes de Miles Morales poderiam impedir a morte de sua mãe ou poupar seu pai dos terríveis ferimentos causados pelo conflito contra Venom, mas agora o jovem está convencido de que causou a tragédia... e decide encerrar sua carreira como super-herói! Mas quanto tempo isso pode durar em um mundo imprevisível e também prestes a enfrentar um Cataclismo?!

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011) 23-28; Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man 1-3; Ultimate Spider-Man (2009) 200

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Spider Man, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Fiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published February 12, 2020

About the author

A comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim (including five Eisner Awards) and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics. For over eight years Bendis’s books have consistently sat in the top five best sellers on the nationwide comic and graphic novel sales charts.

Though he started as a writer and artist of independent noir fiction series, he shot to stardom as a writer of Marvel Comics' superhero books, particularly Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bendis first entered the comic world with the "Jinx" line of crime comics in 1995. This line has spawned the graphic novels Goldfish, Fire, Jinx, Torso (with Marc Andreyko), and Total Sell Out. Bendis is writing the film version of Jinx for Universal Pictures with Oscar-winner Charlize Theron attached to star and produce.

Bendis’s other projects include the Harvey, Eisner, and Eagle Award-nominated Powers (with Michael Avon Oeming) originally from Image Comics, now published by Marvel's new creator-owned imprint Icon Comics, and the Hollywood tell-all Fortune and Glory from Oni Press, both of which received an "A" from Entertainment Weekly.

Bendis is one of the premiere architects of Marvel's "Ultimate" line: comics specifically created for the new generation of comic readers. He has written every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man since its best-selling launch, and has also written for Ultimate Fantastic Four and Ultimate X-Men, as well as every issue of Ultimate Marvel Team-Up, Ultimate Origin and Ultimate Six.

Brian is currently helming a renaissance for Marvel’s AVENGERS franchise by writing both New Avengers and Mighty Avengers along with the successful ‘event’ projects House Of M, Secret War, and this summer’s Secret Invasion.

He has also previously done work on Daredevil, Alias, and The Pulse.

Reviews

[B. P. Rinehart · Rating 5 out of 5]

Technically speaking I have already reviews the components of this book with Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis Vol. 5, Cataclysm: The Ultimates' Last Stand, and Ultimate Spider-Man #200. This book is unique in that it collects all of these previously separate volumes into one. I owned all of those stories digitally which is how I usually read sequential art, but when I come across stories that I really like then I buy a physical copy. That's what has happened here and I knew I would finally get this done after years of saying I would buy the vol 5 trade paperback.

The stories in this book mark the pinnacle of Miles Morales under Brian Michael Bendis (Spider-Men is a close-2nd) and is still my favorite of the Miles solo titles along with Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis, Volume 4. The story is looking at how someone who has sacrificed something at the most central-level of their life makes their way back into the "land of the living." Miles spends a year trying not to be Spider-Man, but the need for him to do so becomes too great and he is forced to confront his Dark Night of The Soul and save the day once again. He comes back just in time for the Cataclysm event and the 200 issue special. That special really needs you to go back and read the Peter Parker era of Ultimate Spider-Man to truly appreciate, but it really does show what was great about the whole Ultimate Universe up -to-that-point and for me marked the last great comic I would read from it before Secret Wars ended Marvel's multiverse...sort-of.

I've read so many comic books since I picked-up Ultimate Comics Spider-Man by Brian Michael Bendis, Volume 1 in March 2013, but I will always have a place in my heart for this particular series because it was at the start of my journey into this weird-ass thing called comic books. I don't read comics like I use to between 2013-2017 for a variety of reasons, but I am glad to have picked them up after 23 years of ignoring them.

[Lucas Savio · Rating 5 out of 5]

O Auge do auge é miles Morales
Isso é muito bom senti uma coisa que sinto na saga dos xmen, continuidade e consequências tem nessa história e é muito bem escrita e ilustrada. Há 10 anos atrás eu gostei da ideia de unificar com as guerras secretas mas hj n sei tanto pois sendo no universo ultimate eles tem mais coragem de certas direções no roteiro que no universo 616 ele não tem veremos com as releituras que farei

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mais um volume da aclamada fase de Brian Michael Bendis no título do Homem-Aranha negro e latino, Miles Morales. Neste volume, o que chama a atenção em primeiro lugar é a arte. Quase toda ela é feita por David Marquez, que tem um traço leve e fluido, mas que não se intimida nem com a anatomia e os rostos dos personagens, nem com a composição dos cenários ou da narrativa gráfica. Nas histórias contidas nesse encadernado, temos primeiro Miles querendo desitir de ser o Homem-Aranha depois que sua vida secreta acarretou na morte de sua mãe. Também ficamos conhecendo outros personagens como Manto e Adaga, que se aliam ao Homem-Aranha, à Mulher-Aranha e à Granada para combater as Indústrias Roxxon, culpada pelo surgimento dos poderes de todos eles. Segue-se a isso as consequência do Cataclisma que Galactus gerou no Universo Ultimate com sua chegada, gerando mais drama entre a família de Miles. Também temos uma edição especial prestando homenagem à morte do Peter Parker do Universo Ultimate. Bendis sabe trabalhar bem os dramas e, neste caso, até trabalha bem a caracterização de seus personagens, principalmente aqueles criados e desenvolvidos por ele (a maioria dos presentes nesse encadernado). O encadernado se encerra de maneira empolgante, abrindo espaço para os Novíssimos Supremos. Resta saber se a Panini Comics Brasil trará o último encadernado dessa fase Ultimate de Miles Morales para o Brasil.

[Anja von "books and phobia" · Rating 5 out of 5]

Außer dem Film, muss ich gestehen, habe ich von Miles Morales noch nicht so viel gelesen. Um so mehr freute es mich, dass man hier mit Hilfe von Story und dem Vorwort von Christian Endres einen wunderbaren Einstieg in die Welt des neuen Spider-Mans bekam. Denn ganz ehrlich, es ist schon schwer der Nachfolger eines legendären Helden zu sein.

Dies merkt man auch gleich am Anfang, denn Miles steckt hier bereits in einer schwierigen Phase. Diese beinhaltet vorallem die Frage, ob er wirklich noch Spider-Man sein will. Eine berechtigte Frage, wie man später noch erfährt. Doch was wäre eine Selbstfindung ohne Personen, die an einen glauben und stets ermutigen.

Wer jetzt glaubt, dieser Band hat, außer einem uneinigen Miles nichts zu bieten, dem kann ich ganz klar sagen, dass dies nicht der Fall ist. Denn neben Miles Geschichte, werden auch die von Bombshell aka Lana Baumgartner, sowie Tandy Bowen und Ty Johnson erzählt, welche später zu Cloak&Dagger werden. Dies erfolgte stets in Rückblenden, welche äußerst gut erklären, was geschehen ist. Und ja, das klingt erstmal sehr viel, aber ich muss wirklich sagen, dass ich mich nie erschlagen fühlte. Alle Geschichten wurden so erzählt, dass Einsteiger einen guten Überblick erhielten und Kenner in Erinnerungen schwelgen konnten. Dazu wurde natürlich nicht an Action gespart.

Was inhaltlich schon toll klingt, konnte mich auch optisch wirklich begeistern. Der leichte Zeichenstil schaffte es, Namen mit Figuren zu verbinden und Geschichten leicht und verständlich darzustellen. Selbst in den Action-Szenen verlor ich nie den Überblick, sondern konnte den Geschehnissen und Bewegungen folgen. Wer also mit leichter Kost in die Welt von Miles Morales & Co. starten möchte, macht mit diesem Band überhaupt nichts falsch.

Fazit:

Auch wenn dieser Band vor allem Miles und sein Leben als Spider-Man in den Vordergrund stellt, schaffte er es dazu auch noch die Geschichten von Bombshell und Cloak&Dagger mitzuerzählen und die Handlung einzuweben. Was vielleicht nach viel klingt, dürfte sich jedoch beim Lesen in pure Begeisterung umwandeln, denn neben Emotionen und Action, schaffte es der Band alle Geschehnisse leicht und verständlich zu verpacken. Neuleser kann ich hier nur herzlich willkommen heißen, denn diese bekommen hier wirklich einen tollen Einstieg in diese Welt.

[Markus Santos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Já se passou um ano desde que a mãe do Miles morreu no ataque ao hospital, e ele se sente culpado por isso. Seu pai foi machucado e odeia super-heróis mascarados de forma geral, mas mais ainda o Homem-Aranha, por isso que desde então o Miles tem tentado viver uma vida normal. Mas a Jessica Drew, a Mulher-Aranha, é seu melhor amigo, o Ganke, tentam convencê-lo a voltar, mas ele está irredutível. Até que três jovens super-humanos começam uma briga próximo a ele e ele tem que intervir. O que todos tem em comum? A Roxxon. Essa nova fase dos gibis do Miles são bem divertidas. Esse encadernado é um pouco mais fraco que o anterior, mas ainda assim é bem divertido. Ainda tem uma mega-saga no universo ultimate no meio, o Cataclismo, quando o Galactus vem pra Terra, o que causa muitas mudanças no universo ultimate, e a mini do Aranha é bem bacana, com direito a revelação da identidade secreta do Miles pro pai, o mesmo que odeia o Homem-Aranha. Toda essa leitura me lembra o quanto o Miles é um personagem excelente e o quanto o Bendis sabia escrever gibi de super-herói.

[Jonathan Roberts · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book. Kinda annoyed to have the Cataclysm storyline sandwiched in the middle there. But an ok read

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like all Spider-men, Miles has to give up the mask for a tragic reason. It's a tried but true tale: Hero becomes overwhelmed and gives up being a hero, but the responsibility eventually compels him/her to return to the super-life. It's been done before... but that doesn't mean it can't still be done well. This particular book was engaging and full of character development. I also enjoyed getting to know Spider-Woman more and also being introduced to Cloak and Dagger (all three of whom are characters I hadn't read yet). The action was as on-point as was the emotion. The end result? More with these young heroes please!

[Marsha · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ho boy. I haven’t seen the comics in this series that preceded this one but it starts off with the terrible news that Miles’s mom has been fridged. That’s right. His mom was shot by a police officer’s stray bullet and she died in his arms while he was acting as Spider-Man.

So Miles has decided to toss in his spider suit and stop being Spider-Man. That’s the reverse decision made by Bruce Wayne but it has much the same result. He’s brooding, unhappy, steely eyed and often sunk in misery.

Unlike Bruce Wayne, however, Miles has friends and associates who knew that he was Spider-Man. So he—and we, the readers—are subject to their endless haranguing about how he needs to get back on the horse and re-join the superhero community. He’s been in mourning over her for a year but, hey, that’s long enough for anybody to mourn a lost relative, right?

Do I even need to state what a detrimental attitude this is to use on a grieving adolescent? Poor Miles doesn’t have the benefit of therapy unless he’s willing to come clean to a civilian that he used to be a superhero. He can’t tell his unknowing father given his patriarch’s stated hatred of supers. The only people he can talk to about it are Ganke, his portly, Lego-obsessed best friend, Gwen Stacy and Spider-Woman, all of whom urge him constantly to get back in the superhero game.

Is there a time limit on mourning? Especially grieving for a parent? Especially when you’re a teenager? Adolescents have their emotions running on high, due to their emerging hormones and chemicals seething in their brains. They feel things at a greater intensity than adults. Merge all that with the burden of keeping a massive secret and being told by society that you have to “man up” and get over your sadness and that makes for a potent brew of misery and inner pain. It’s no wonder the cover depicts a silently screaming Miles tearing away his face.

Ganke is especially obnoxious about Miles’s predicament. In one horrid passage, he calls Miles cowardly and selfish because he refuses to use his spider powers in a dangerous situation involving not just one but three super-charged teenagers fighting. Miles has no idea who the “bad guys” are in this situation, why they’re fighting or which one he should be siding with so he does the only thing he thinks he can—leave the area and hope the cops take care of everything.

But Ganke and Gwen don’t see it that way. Gwen thinks he should have fought, slaps him over his refusal and then rats him out to Ganke, who treats Miles to the silent treatment until lashing out at him.

I don’t like Ganke, either on paper or in his screen incarnations. I’ve often suspected that his attachment to his friend stems from said friend’s superpowers. If Miles Morales/Peter Parker wasn’t a superhero, would Ganke be so eager to be in his company? Never does Ganke point out how perilous it is to have superpowers. No, he reacts with the giddy glee of somebody who’s discovered a magic lamp with a genie inside it.

Miles eventually does put on the Spider-Man costume again. But it’s not because of harrying by any of his so-called friends. He’s informed there is a terrible person who’s deliberately creating people with super powers by kidnapping teenagers, offering criminals parole or taking the near-dead victims of accidents. It’s the old chestnut of trying to create super soldiers like Captain America. But, whereas Steve Rogers was a willing volunteer, these are often unknowing victims. So Miles gets back into action.

But I couldn’t feel good about his reappearance after so much aggressive nagging. I wanted Gwen to get a return slap in the face. I wanted Ganke to be called an obese, Lego-obsessed loser. I wanted Spider-Woman to get called out and reported to S.H.I.E.L.D. for invading Miles in his bedroom. Isn’t that harassment and invasion of privacy? Maybe these are silly limits to apply to a comic book. But Miles’s father was a police officer before being deemed unfit for duty so I think my grievances are legitimate.

The best that can be said about this comic book is that it shows the downside of having people know about a superhero’s secret identities. They just won’t leave it alone when the super decides s/he is done.

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

Note: This stuff takes place in the Ultimates universe (1610). This isn't the regular Marvel comics (616) universe and it isn't the 'Gamerverse' that they created to tell stories of the videogame Spider-Man.

This would score higher if it was marketed as part of a collection. As it is, you're given 3 separate stories and they're put together in one book for the first time. The Ultimate universe was disaster heavy for awhile. They had a huge mutant made tsunami event. They had two different Galactus(es) stop over. They had their version of Civil War across the country. Surprised anybody survived.

Here, you're dropped into the story after Peter Parker has died. There's been a fight with a version of Venom that ended with the death of Miles' mother, in universe. Death takes a toll. Doesn't matter the universe. They wrote a strong story for Miles to have to cope with his new reality and figure out if he has a place in this superhero business.

Bonus: Ultimate universe origins of tons of characters...Cloak and Dagger, Bombshell. Even sort of a Taskmaster reveal, if not an origin.
Bonus Bonus: Bombshell (not this version..i think) is still around in main continuity

[寿理 宮本 · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is OKAY. I have the same problem with this as with the Batman: Nightwalker, where some of the spreads break up the flow of the comic panels, so it's confusing which order they're supposed to be read in. It's worse in this than in Batman, though.

Otherwise, it's decent. The story's decent. The art is decent. The designs are decent. I don't like that it introduced Galactus to the story then SKIPPED OVER where Galactus was defeated or whatever, since I GUESS Miles Morales* didn't handle that part (although Kitty Pride mentions punching Galactus in the face when the story DOES pick up).

*Everyone seems to call him by his full name more than not. It's weird.

I guess it's fine for fans, but the average reader picking this up will miss a lot of things. Basic knowledge of at least most of the Marvel Universe is needed, or it's just a mess of characters without understanding who any of them are.

[Shevek · Rating 4 out of 5]

After a second volume that disregarded Miles' daily life to be rather focused on a national war, here we have a more typical Spiderman story. Not in vain, the first issue is a sort of retelling of AS #50. Miles is dealing with his recent and tragic loss, for which he has several great interactions with Ganke, his father and his girlfriend. Bendis writes great dialogues and Marquez seems to have been born to draw this character. The issue about the memorial service for Peter is touching and very special. Plus Cloak and Dagger and a very remarkable version of Spiderwoman, so all good.

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, this one is a bit of a drop off from the first two. There’s definitely some good stuff, but my biggest complaint is that as little as I felt like the previous volume contextualized Divided We Fall, this one is significantly worse with Cataclysm. The Ultimates all die and it only gets kinda mentioned in passing. Still , it’s hard to say much negative about the initial run of Miles Morales books in general. I’d HIGHLY recommend those three volumes as a whole.

[Ming · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm very confused by the way Marvel collects their issues - most of this was duplicated in another trade I read previously. (Would it kill them to number the volumes prominently on the cover? Sigh)

The new stuff for me was Cataclysm, which I enjoyed.

[Alicia · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm always confused about what order to read superhero comics in so I just roll headlong into them and hope for the best. I've read some in the universe and this one had all of the components of action, adventure, and great illustration to be a fun sidenote to other reading.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

The best Miles Morales tales in the Ultimate Universe. And this is one of them that happens towards the end. Marvel's attempt to squish him into the MCU is sad and boring. This was way more vibrant as Peter Parker was dead. There was only a shadow, not a presence like in the MCU.

[James Speiker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Heart of Spider-Man

I think the new Spider-Man is great. Not the same as the original, but they share the same spirit. Enjoyed reading about him growing in to his powers as much as growing with them.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

Issue 200 was great definitely a tear jerker

[Ina · Rating 1 out of 5]

I didn't like it that much. It basically forgets everything that happens in the movie, and twists everything up.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved this, but it is definitely meant to be read alongside other books. There's an entire storyline that is skipped with a message to buy the other comics.

[Sheikh Waheed · Rating 2 out of 5]

DNF

[Cecilia Rodriguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Set one year after the death of his mother, Miles Morales has quit being Spider-Man.
Spider-Woman: Jessica Drew, is also a S.H.E.I.D. Agent seeks out Miles, when a lab experiment goes wrong.

[fleur · Rating 4 out of 5]

all the women in the spider universe are just the coolest ughhgg

[Roshan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Miles Morales: Great Responsibility (2011)
Writer - Brian Michael Bendis
Illustrator - David Marquez, Justin Ponsor
Series - Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #23-28, + Cataclysm: #1-3

Synopsis: After retiring as Spider-man, Miles reconsiders his decision after a duo of super heroes suddenly appear.

Taking place a year after the previous events, this issue goes through the typical Spider-man issue of, retirement.

There is good development in Miles’ character and the addition of Bombshell, Cloak and Shadow, a bigger role for Spider-woman helps build the universe. The branching of the story between them adds some freshness and maturity compared to previous chapters.

The collection is weird as it jams in the Cataclysm story arc and leaves it hanging for another collection to take up the arc. And weirder still is that they ruin whatever happened in the arc with a epilogue which is exactly the next page.
Miles personal life is still half heartedly developed. Be it the flaky nature with Katie Bishop or the annoying relation with his dad or lack of a base with Ganke.

I would have given a higher score if not for the Cataclysm story arc which just raised expectations and went nowhere.

RJG Rating - 3/5

[Mścifelek · Rating 3 out of 5]

UWIELBIAM PAJĘCZAKÓW. Widać?? Miles Morales jest chyba nawet moim ulubionym pajęczakiem, więc to oczywiste, że musiałem sobie załatwić jakiś komiks z tym ikonicznym szczylem.

Pierwszy raz spotkałem się dzięki temu komiksowi również z Cloak & Dagger i było to intrygujące spotkanie. Zastanawiałem się poprzez Marvel Rivals, czemu aż tak ich zespojono. Teraz czuję, że mniej więcej rozumiem.

Komiks jak zawsze przyjemnie mi się czytało, mam jedynie trzy zastrzeżenia:

1) Panele bywały niesamowicie mylące, gdy nagle pojawiały się na dwóch stronach. Musiałem siłą odginać stony, żeby szukać białej kreski pośrodku, która mogłaby mi podpowiedzieć czy to jeszcze ten sam panel czy już kolejna strona.

2) FINAŁ POTYCZKI ZOSTAŁ WYCIĘTY i wciśnięty do innego komiksu, a my dostaliśmy szybkie streszczenie i kontynuowanie akcji już po tej walce. Wiem, że tak się czasami robi w komiksach, ale no! Jak już zbierasz zeszyty, to w jakąś logiczną sensowną całość. A nie mi jeszcze spoilerujecie w tym ułożeniu inny komiks.

3) Tony Stark nie przyszedł na celebrację życia Petera. I'm sobbing.

[Maria Apo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing! Spider-man no more is one of the best stories of Spider-man's life. Everything that happened in this comic is wonderful. From the introduction of Cloak and Dagger to Jessica, Drew helps Miles to Miles, telling his dad who he is to everyone remembering Peter. Is perfect.