Miles Morales: Spider-Man Omnibus, Vol. 2

Miles Morales: Spider-Man Omnibus

by Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Latour, Sara Pichelli (Artist)

Welcome to the Marvel Universe, Miles Morales! After the dimension-shattering Secret Wars, the Ultimate Spider-Man is starting a brand new life on a brand new world! And Miles will have to find his feet quickly when he goes up against one of the biggest bads in the Marvel U! The villainous Black Cat plots to get her claws in this new Spidey — but will Miles find romance with the other-dimensional Spider-Gwen? And Spidey gets caught in the middle when Marvel’s heroes square off in a second Civil War! Plus, the secret history of Miles’ dad…Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.! Miles Morales and Peter Parker team up to take on a familiar face! And here comes an all-new, all-deadly Sinister Six!

COLLECTING: Spider-Man (2016) 1-21, 234-240; Spider-Gwen (2015b) 16-18; Spider-Men II (2017) 1-5; Generations: Miles Morales Spider-Man & Peter Parker Spider-Man (2017) 1

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

856 pages, Hardcover

First published May 2, 2018

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

[Jérémy Gosselin · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5⭐️

[Griffin Pierce · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn’t quite have the same sauce as the first collection but still good

[Darth_Odan · Rating 3 out of 5]

An improvement compared to the first volume, but not by much. This omnibus unfortunately relies heavily on you having read two crossover events: Secret Wars (2015) and Civil War II. If you haven't read those two crossovers, then the first half of the omnibus will be a confusing labyrinth of events. Miles joins Earth 616 (the Main Marvel Universe) but they don't really explain how it works: people already know him and his backstory is established as it was without much interruption, except his mother is alive again. There is no recap for the events of either crossover, so you will be left with putting pieces of the puzzle together.

The biggest failure, however, is that Miles continues to be a character without depth or much character. Among the first issues, Miles will easily defeat a villain that bested the Avengers in an attempt for Michael Bendis to continue establishing how awesome Miles is. We rarely get to see him struggle or grow as a person. His personality is much like Peter's which is disappointing. In comparison, Terry McGinnis and Dick Greyson have both been Batman for some time, but they have different personalities from Bruce Wayne. Each of those three characters adds a different angle and depth to Batman. But Miles? Miles being Spiderman doesn't add anything to him as a character.

At one point Miles states that he wants to be more than just the Black Spiderman (at times he will remember people he's half Black half Hispanic, but he seldom shows or does anything Latino) but this omnibus concludes with Miles just being that: Spiderman but in a different skin tone. Ganke, his friend, grows more than Miles in both omnibi from being a shy, awkward geek who is too afraid to talk to women to having a girlfriend. This is perfectly demonstrated in the Generations: Miles Morales Spiderman & Peter Parker Spiderman issue. In that single issue you get to see what drives Peter Parker to be Spiderman and how he has grown as a character from that moment to the present whereas the same cannot be said for Miles.

The omnibus picks up towards the middle of the book when there are interdimensional stories and this is where Miles can shine: far from Peter, dealing with unique problems and issues. Miles would benefit from getting his own rogues gallery, but Bendis just recycles Peter's villains for Miles. The omnibus ends in a comical manner with a nice deus ex machina that solves a problem that was presented the previous issue. The art for this omnibus deserved a better writer, you can easily tell that this is not Michael Bendis' best work.

Overall, this omnibus is only worth a buy if it's on a sale or if you are a completionist. The Spiderverse movies do much more to flesh out Miles as a character which in turn makes them great stories.

[Calcu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aprovecho este que incluye los 4 tomos que leí:

Vol. 1: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (16/05)
Acá me di cuenta de que se contradice con los otros cómics de Miles que leí. Pinche Marvel y tu orden.

Vol. 2: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (17/05)
"Creo que intentar controlar lo que no puede controlarse, como el futuro, puede volver loco a cualquiera. Creo que el subconsciente es algo poderoso. Creo que la gente no siempre es consciente de sí misma. Y creo que todo el mundo, todo el mundo, merece el derecho a tomar sus propias decisiones y beneficiarse de eso o sufrir las consecuencias de esos actos."
Team Ironman siempre

Vol. 3: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (18/06)
"Es una locura, porque la mentira te traiciona. Pero también te da algo que querías más que nada."

Vol. 4: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (20/06)
Sabés que estás en las últimas cuando los Avengers te van a visitar al hospital.

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

The 616 half of Bendis' Miles run.

It's perhaps a hair less great that the 1610 stories, because Miles is a smaller fish in a big run, but Bendis makes good use of that, particularly with his hilarious inclusion of Goldballs!

There are some nice stories in here, particularly the Hammerhead and Black Cat one. And then Bendis offers a bit of a surprise by stepping back to his primordial Secret War story, which is pretty cool.

Sad to see Bendis go, as he had such a great handle on this character and his supporting cast, and though the next run would be fine, it wasn't the same.

[Chad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not quite as good as the Ultimate universe stuff, particularly because of all the retcons and aging Miles up from 13 to 16 after Secret Wars. Still, there's some fun stuff like the addition of Goldballs to the cast. He's hilarious. The stuff with Hammerhead and Black Cat is interesting even though you knew they wouldn't keep Black Cat evil forever. The Civil War II stuff in here is better than the main story line. I did like how the final issue paralleled what was happening in Bendis's personal life. The art is consistently good throughout.

[Nitish Dang · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book, overall, was a decent letdown compared to the first one. It felt like the big movie budget had been taken away from the creators, and they had to work with what they had. It just felt way less cinematic

They also tried to bring together so many plot points- that weren't tied up by the end?

BUT —the redeeming part was the exploration of the relationships between Miles and the people around him. That part was really good. Plus, the art was good

The only storyline I didn't really like was the Spider-Gwen/Miles one - because of the art style I think

[Jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Miles Morales is Spider-Man in case any idiots on twitter are still arguin about it. I really loved this collection and it was bittersweet to see BMB end his phenomenal Spider-Man run. I really loved the bit with Miles and Luke Cage, and loved the run with him and Spider-Gwen. Spider-Men 2 sadly didn't hold up to the first but it's still always fun to see Peter and Miles quip. The Generations issue was great, and issue 240 was a good sendoff from BMB to Miles.

[Joey Amorim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally at the end of a long, LONG journey of Bendis on Spider-Man. I can’t really say that this omnibus is great. You can tell that Bendis struggled to find a real comfortable rhythm with Miles in 616, particularly with how he seemingly just randomly decided who and what transferred over from 1610 after Secret Wars. It feels bittersweet to be done with this gargantuan run, but a lot like how I felt when I finished his Avengers run, I’m excited to hear some new voices with the character.

[Shane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another well-done collection of further Miles Morales stories from the comics. While this one doesn't quite live up to the same standard as the first volume, it is still a wonderful read for fans of comics, Spider-Man, and Miles Morales.

[Zachary Bemrose · Rating 5 out of 5]

Miles might be my favorite Spider Man. This was fun reading right before Across the Spider-verse came out. Beautiful art work.

[James Cleveland-Tran · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first half is really rough, being overly tied in with events but without any explanation. It gets better in the second half.