Ahmed continues that trend here as the longer stories have Miles breaking up a gang of mind-controlled kids turned supervillains and teaming up with a new vigilante who has it out for Tombstone. While I enjoyed the stories Bendis wrote which featured Miles Morales, it never really felt like he was doing anything other than plugging the character into the kind of stories we’d already seen Peter Parker in. There’s no mistaking Miles from being the kind of friendly neighborhood Spider-Man we all know and love, and that’s part of this first volume’s problem. Oh, and to try and balance his responsibilities with having an actual social life. He’s struggling to balance saving people in the city with trying to get enough sleep to make it through a regular schoolday. New writer Saladin Ahmed does a good enough job of putting the title character through the traditional Spider-paces. This is the first volume of Miles Morales’ solo adventures not to be written by Bendis! Those of you hoping for a dramatic departure from the kind of stories we got with the character before, however, should check their expectations.
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