Amazing Spider-Man #81

[cyberghostface]

 

If you're wondering who's on the cover, that's Miles in his new costume. As far as redesigns go, it's just ugly in my opinion.

Comments

[chalicother]

I legit thought it was Kane on the cover....

Dear Writers when doing a redesign...make sure the look is iconic and differentiated enough to make it belong to the character.

This design seems it will suffer the same fate as the "Drake " costume that Tim had.

[donnblake]

"I call myself Morales, after the deadliest of all Spiders!"

[tinygaylaura]

I'm glad that Ben isn't being an asshole to Miles about the Spider-Man name

That panel with the parent and her child is hilarious

"Mommy, what's wrong with those men?"

"DON'T LOOK AT THEM!"

I'm not wild about Miles new look

I prefer his OG costume I think

This one looks too much like he's just wearing a regular sweatshirt

If your gonna be a superhero I think you should have a full costume

There are some exceptions but not everyone can be Luke Cage or Jessica Jones or John Constantine

[lordy_co]

This one looks too much like he's just wearing a regular sweatshirt

If your gonna be a superhero I think you should have a full costume

Agreed.

[tinygaylaura]

Embrace this, Miles

[super_fly]

It's like they took his look with the hoodie in Spider-Verse and thought, "Let's make this more costumey"

And it's like, too much, too far.

[zachbeacon]

Well Ben invented the Spider-Person in a hoodie look so Miles kinda had to change in like of all the lawsuits.

[zachbeacon]

In fairness, Ben used to fight crime in a hoodie sweatshirt and a half-finished Spider-Man suit and yet it's still only maybe his second worst look after the Jackel/Anubis mask and the costume that made him look like Spidercide.

And, according to at least one novelization, the Amazing Fantasy 15 "Masked Marvel" mask was made of pantyhose. Granted that wasn't technically a superhero outfit but Peter has fought crime with a paper bag over his head on many occasions.

[scorntx]

Yup, that's not a good look for Miles.

His original outfit was fine. Why change it?
It's like trying to reinvent the wheel.

(C'moooon, Spider-Verse synergy. Hurry up and work your magic.)

[blues32]

Dammit, I wanted it to be Kaine. And I'm going to say Miles is copying him and he should be ashamed.

[mazway_75]

That is a crappy redesign, just looks like something Miles would have put together when he was starting out but no reason to change such a great look.

[janegray]

Oh dang. I totally thought that was Kaine.

[thediiem]

Maybe this isn't fair but Miles' new costume feels more like a Tarantula redesign to me than a Spider-Man one. The silhouette is a huge problem too. I get that they may want to make it distinct from other Spider-people but it sets his design too far apart.

[lordultimus]

I notice a lot of people keep thinking that this was going to be Kaine. I think it's because there's something "aggressively street" to this design, with the narrower eyes, red and black color scheme, and the mask with the tie in the back to it.

As a spider anti-hero costume, I think this works out okay, but the problem is that Miles isn't that. He's the son of a cop and a nurse that's the living definition of a good boy.

[iamrman]

Miles is the goodest boy.

[laughing_tree]

There's no reason to associate street (as a fashion) with moral ambiguity.

[lordultimus]

I wasn't trying to do that, I was doing this specific style of street.

[blues32]

It comes off as a spider anti-hero costume because it looks remarkably like Kaine's. The more we read of Kaine in that costume, the more we associated the colors with a Spider-Man with far looser morals. I mean, the first thing I think of when I think of Scarlet Spider Kaine is how the first thing he did to Carnage when they first met is twist his head 180 degrees. And if this was the 90s or something, that would have actually killed Cletus since the healing abilities of symboites weren't really touched upon for another decade.

[nyadnar17]

Never even crossed my mind that was Miles. Why the hell redesign an already iconic costume?

Why give him a design that fits so much better for Kaine?

[arilou_skiff]

If the artists don't get to redesign a new costume every now and then they get nervous and start to poop indoors. It's just something you have to deal with.

[silverhammerman]

Yeah, this looks to have played out the same way that ever modern, vaguely antagonistic heroes meeting ends up playing out.

I still don't like Miles new costume, though I think it looks better when certain artists draw it. It is kind of amusing to see that the new Spider-Verse movie has its own redesign in the cards and it looks both cooler and more streamlined than this does.

[iamrman]

I'm glad Miles and Ben got over the mandatory team-up fight. That trope really is tiresome.

[sabertoothlotus]

Miles, you did meet Ben (OK, not this one, but one from an alternate universe...) back in the Spider-Verse crossover.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Changing up Miles costume? Sure.

Into the Spider-verse did it.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales on PlayStation had a bunch of good ones.

This?

This ain't it, Chief.

He almost looks like a Beast Morpher Power Ranger in this getup.

[pteppic]

That design is *terrible*.
Absolutely terrible.
Miles. What did they do to you?

[zachbeacon]

You'd think two Spider-Men would be genre-savvy enough to skip the Superhero Misunderstanding Fight.

Especially after Spider-Verse.

Sure Miles' costume is bad but most of his costumes are pretty terrible. The original (not counting dressing as Peter) was okay and I see why they keep going back to it. The one in the animated movie was even better. All the others have ranged from forgettable to awful.