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    Disney’s Ultimate Spider-Man is Donald Glover!

    Mary Anne ButlerBy No Comments

    Hailing from shows such as Community, Donald Glover has long been rumored to play a Spider Character.  Especially after his campaign to do so, resulting in the introduction of Miles Morales, the half Hispanic half African American Spider-Man counterpart of Peter Parker in 2011.

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    USA Today reports several details of what we can expect to see in this new web-slinging show:

    “He meets someone who is his hero, and that comes across completely in Donald’s performance,” says Stephen Wacker, a former Spider-Man editor at Marvel Comics who’s now vice president of Marvel Television’s animation division. “He’s got a real warmth that suits the character really, really well.

     Glover told USA Today that portraying that 13-year-old Miles didn’t require that much of a stretch. “That’s the great part about the Spider-Man costume: He can be anybody,” he said. “Spider-Man could be a girl. Spider-Man could be an old man. You don’t know. So I just tried to be as me as possible, because you’re always just going to bring it back to yourself when you watch the show.”

    Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors premieres Sunday at 9 a.m. ET/PT on Disney XD.

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    Mary Anne Butler (Mab) got her start in album reviews and live concert coverage for a nationally published (print) music magazine as a teenager. She eventually transitioned to online media, writing for such sites as UGO/IGN, ComicsOnline, Geek Magazine, Ace of Geeks, Aggressive Comix (Editor-in-Chief), Bleeding Cool (News Editor), Nerdbot (as Editor-In-Chief), and now [Bad]Influencers, where she is Editor-in-Chief. Over the past 15 years, she’s built a well-known reputation at conventions across the globe as a cosplayer (occasionally), photographer (constantly), panelist and moderator (mostly), and reporter (always). Interviews, reviews, observations, breaking news, and objective reporting are the name of the game for the founder of Harkonnen Knife Fight, a Dune-themed band. She also produces award-winning immersive events, including Wasteland Weekend and Neotropolis.

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