rabbitarcade:

brianmichaelbendis:

because i get it.  i do. it was upsetting. it was upsetting to write. 

but most people know where I’m coming from as a human. even if you hated the choice.

someone asked me if i would ever kill a white character to inspire an african american one? i have.  his name is miles morales. bi-racial, i know.  but he stars in a book i co created with almost no ‘white’ people in it. 

and there’s an argument that says his success changed the course of a lot of mainstream comics.  i am insanely proud of my part in that. 

i exec produce one of the only Tv shows on the air with an african american female lead (or an african american female superhero) 

i’m not saying it buys me a pass, it does not. but when you put it in context of my work overall… it shows where my heart lies. i see a colorful world of fascinating people of all walks of life.  good stuff will happen to them and bad stuff will happen to them.  you know, like real life. 

Except like, you DIDN’T kill Peter Parker, he and all of his white supporting cast where still in it a lot, most of Miles’ identity revolved around thinking about Peter, or trying to solve the mystery of Peter returning. You still featured Peter Parker, Aunt May, Gwen Stacey and Mary Jane Watson and Jay Jonah Jameson VERY prominantly. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoyed the book, but to read you say that you *killed* Peter, and that the book had almost no white people in it? That’s legit just a lie.