Miles Morales: Shock Waves (Marvel)

I bought this one for my brother who is obsessed with Miles Morales and decided to give it a read before I gave it to him.I'll start with the good. The art was super cute and every page of this comic looked great. I liked the message and the characterization of Miles and co.Unfortunately I felt like the storytelling was a bit all over the place. I regularly had to pause to try to figure out what had just happened as it wasn't communicated clearly. I believe Reynolds is primarily a novelist with not much experience writing comics and I'm afraid to say it shows.Hopefully my brother will enjoy this one more than I did but I'm afraid to say I probably wouldn't recommend this comic.

Bought for my 8 yo for Xmas I can't wait to see his wee face its coming book style written

This is a graphic novel (128 pages long - the main story concludes on page 113) featuring Miles Morales a Spider-Man who featured in the Into the Spiderverse movie. You should be aware that this is not set in the Spiderverse Universe as it mentions that Peter Parker is in Queens and at one point he (PP) pops up to give Miles some advice. The story is set after Miles has been Spider-Man for nearly a year. Whilst I do think that some familiarity with the character of Miles Morales helps, a lot of the differences between Miles and Peter are outlined in the first few pages of the story.Even though this is aimed at readers of 8-12 years and I primarily got it for my son who loves Spider-Man, the dialogue is quite humourous in places:-"...you're a civilian, while I'm-""A man swinging around in his underoos."If you've seen the film you can imagine the voices of the characters as you're reading the dialogue. The graphics are well drawn, there's not anything overly ambitious in the artwork but it gets the story across. I like how there are three different storylines, which show how Miles has to juggle his life to fit school, friends, home and the superhero gig in and how he doesn't always get it right.Although the main story is resolved there is a little bit of a cliffhanger. It's not clear but I assume that the story continues in Ms. Marvel : Stretched Thin (Ms. Marvel and Squirrel Girl have a little appearance in this book) which is coming Autumn 2021 - there's a sneak peek of that book in the end of this one.Overall - very good Spider-Man graphic novel for the 8-12 age group, that adults will appreciate as well. Which is good if you're reading it to younger children.

Going to be honest, I'm not sure what a 'middle-grade' novel is. Is it referring to the US school system, level of english or the fact this is one of the now many versions of Spiderman?I've grown up with Spiderman. I read the first one when it was new and I got married at the same time that Peter Parker married MJ. Then I moved on, and didn't really read the stories for a few years. In that time, Marvel and Spiderman had changed. There were now many versions out there, a whole Spiderverse - which incidentally the animated film combined brilliantly. Gwen Stacey lives still in one of these (I was heart broken as a kid when she died.) - now a Spider person herself.Miles is another, younger Spiderperson. He's mixed race, more of a teenager than Peter Parker ever was. Unlike PP and 60s superheroes, he's not so quite enthralled with science and leaves room for other things. The plot is different from early PP, completely relevant to 21st century teens, dealing as it does with mega-corporations manipulating people amongst other things. I'm not going to go on a spoil the plot, as graphic novels go this is hardly expensive - buy your own!

In the increasingly baroque and, at least to me, completely incomprehensible Marvel Universe, Miles Morales is a mixed-race second Spiderman who hangs out in Brooklyn and was the star of 'Into The Spiderverse.Marvel have been accused of knee-jerk wokery with the character, but of course the company have always reflected social issues: The original Spiderman was a reaction to the emergence of the teenager as a social phenonemon, Black Panther and Luke Cage emerged along with civil rights. Even Thor was a bit of a hippy.Me being a fan of the really bonkers Jack Kirby stuff from the 60s and 70s and their mid-70s stuff like Howard The Duck, I've been trying to get the boy into comics with no success, and who can blame him. But the art in this exciting and funny graphic novel is bang up to date, in a more computer-generated style, and he really liked the visuals, though at seven he's a bit young for the story. I thoroughly enjoyed it, myself.

My 9 year old spider man fan enjoyed this book. It is a graphic novel format, with comic style illustrations throughout and much of the story told via dialogue. There is a good amount of depth and detail to the story to keep it interesting, and it focuses on miles morales Spider-Man, which most people know from the Spider-Man into the spider verse movie. So it’s not Peter Parker, just miles. My son prefers miles morales so he was very enthusiastic with this book.The story of the book is different to the into the spider verse movie, which makes it something more interesting as it’s a new story that he had not read or seen, to know what happens