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Spider-Man: Miles Morales Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis
3.0

Spider-Man Miles Morales Omnibus is the second Omnibus by Brian Michael Bendis. After certain events, Miles is transported to the 616 universe, which is the main Marvel Universe. So we drop the Ultimate tag line and he's just Spider-Man.

Now not to confuse you because if you're interested in this Omnibus it is reissued as Volume 2 of Miles Morales but this is really almost a standalone title anyway. It's a rebranding and almost feels like don't need volume 1 or Ultimate Spider-Man Miles to understand what's happening here outside of a few references.

Miles wakes up and he's Spider-Man. In 616 it had almost a soft reboot and he's now the other Spider-Man outside of Peter being the more adult Spider-Man at the same time. And on top of that his mom is back! Big spoiler if haven't read the original but it's a reset anyway and takes away the emotional damage Miles went through, yet he still kind of knows what happened? But his uncle still is dead from the events and...

Listen it's confusing. I'm not sure why the fuck the reboot but it happened, so we move on. Is it good is the big question.

It's okay. To be honest these adventures aren't nearly as fun as I had hoped. It starts off fun enough with Miles fighting against a huge demon entity, then being friendly neighborhood adventures. Soon enough he's dealing with being spied on by Jessica Jones because his mother and grandmother thinks something is up and his grandmother hires her to find out what is up. Miles ranges from school life with Ganke and now Goldballs cause he becomes a roommate for Miles and Ganke. We try to slightly deal with racism but it's pretty badly done. And Miles is sadly brought into the Civil War 2 storyline that doesn't do him any favors.

Then we get the worst arc, which is Miles dealing with Spier-man peter parker team up. And this is just a very meh mini event compared to the first one. This is Spider-Men 2, and it's pretty bad especially the second half. I was really disappointed in this one and wondered what the fuck happened?

Then the last arc gets better, with Bombshell being a big part and the very last issue actually is touching and heartwarming. Miles has to deal with a disease that is trying to kill him which reflects what happened to Brian Michael Bendis a few months prior. Almost died of a bacterial infection that nearly killed him. So it worked well here to relate to.

But nice art aside, this is just a okay volume. Some decent adventures but overall this was a much weaker volume than the first. Miles ultimate adventures were SO much more fun and exciting and this one just failed to live up to it. It's decent but that's about as far as I can go. Middle of the road.

A 2.5 out of 5.