#rabble

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Giant-Size Spider-Man 2024 art by Iban Coello

[why-i-love-comics]

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #19 - "Retribution III" (2024)

written by Cody Ziglar art by Federico Vicentini & Bryan Valenza

[extraordinary-heroes]

Spider-Man: Miles Morales #1-7 (Cover art by Dike Ruan)

[comicwaren]

From Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2 #018, “Retribution: Part 2”

Art by David Marquez, Sara Pichelli, Juann Cabal, Matt Horak, Luciano Vecchio, Federico Vicentini and Bryan Valenza

Written by Cody Ziglar

[heckcareoxytwit]

As Rabble is finally defeated by Miles Morales, things seem to be bittersweet. Agent Gao's team are back to their normal selves even though they are injured. Rabble is badly injured that she had to be taken to prison hospital. Miles Morales and his team are fine as well as Rhino leaves on good terms.

Shift the clone is alive but injured that he had to be taken to hospital. However, because of Shift's bad experience with the laboratory for being raised and abused in his life, he refused to be taken to hospital. Miles Morales decides that Shift has to go to a better place - his home. Thus, Miles Morales takes his clone brother to his house where he introduces Shift to his family. Miles' parents are shocked at the sight of the clone while his little sister recognizes Shift (since he saved her from Selim when she was a baby) and warms up to him.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man v2 #19, 2024

[shokuto]

The lucky ones

[postcard-from-the-past]

"We should bring more police here. This rabble hasn't been nailed down enough yet."

Russian political vintage postcard

[milimeters-morales]

what a #gamer

[two-in-the-belfry]

Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #4

[hellyeahheroes]

Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) review 1-5

Okay, Cody Ziglar, now you have my attention.

Alright, Cody Ziglar, the first Black main writer of Miles Morales’ comic(not to disrespect Bryan Edward Hill but he only wrote one annual and it was bad), had a dubious honor of following Saladin Ahmed in writing Miles Morales. Just to sum it up, Ahmed’s strengths were that he greatly expanded on the supporting cast and rogues of Miles while giving Miles’ characterization that is more in line with Spider-verse. He modeled his writing after Romita’s run of Amazing Spider-Man that followed Ditko. His flaws were that he failed to actually commit to things in the end as he quickly dumped all of his work in expanding said supporting cast the moment his Creator’s Pet Starling comes around and it becomes all about Clones and Multiverse. After a strong start, Ahmed’s run came to a weak and disappointing end.

Now it’s Ziglar’s turn and I heard ramblings that he wanted Miles to be more around street level black heroes like Misty Knight because they operate differently than the white heroes and don’t have the same privileges. Compare Blue Marvel to Tony Stark and you see what he’s talking about. Anyways, Cody starts his run making parallels to Miles’ Irresponsible Destructive Savior tendencies and his lack of appreciation for his opportunity at Brooklyn Visions Academy.

Miles is being criticized, perhaps unfairly, on both aspects. On one hand, Agent Gao can point out all of the destruction Miles “caused” but if you reread the issue, you will find that most of the damage was caused by Scorpion prior to Miles arriving to the scene and saving that girl, which said girl ends up being wildly important later on. His teacher scolds Miles for being unappreciative of his opportunity that he feels Miles is squandering overlooking the fact that Miles won a lottery to a charter school that is taking funding from underfunded public schools.

So Miles is being attacked by an overly funded police force that loves persecuting vigilantes, especially people of color, and a school system that takes kids from their communities and places them in boarding schools. Both take funding from public schools that, if properly funded at the same level as Brooklyn Visions, could have avoided the future problem that happens in this arc.

Miles’ won that lottery because his lucky number 42 was called. But what happened to the others balls? What happened to 41?

This is Raneem Rashad. Number 41. And she really needed that spot at Brooklyn Visions Academy. And the girl Miles saved in the beginning of the first issue.

Raneem lost her parents who were immigrants from Jordan. She was poor yet gifted and had to enter a school system that didn’t challenge nor uphold her. Her mother died because of inadequate healthcare that failed to catch an ailment on time. And her father’s last lament was for his daughter, his greatest gift, would be saved from the struggle of poverty.

Whoops!

Now Raneem blames Miles taking what she feels was her opportunity. Now you can say that her angry is misdirected, but the narrative is very much aware of that. Both Starling and Miles point out the flaw in her justification. Why be mad at Miles when she could be mad at the fucked up system? That’s not the point of Raneem Rashad aka Rabble. When Bendis watched Waiting For Superman, he was inspired to make that part of Miles’ origin. Miles origin is not propaganda for Charter Schools, Private Schools, or Advance Placement Schools *cough* Spider-Man MCU *cough*. It’s a deconstruction of and a social commentary on it. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse isn’t saying Charter schools are awesome. It’s pointing out the alienation Miles feels attending such institutions. And Raneem is now asking the audience the important question that do these kids who did not win deserve to be left off? They are gifted too. Just as if not more so than Miles. And should Miles be forced to carry the burden of the American Education System inadequacy just because he won a lottery?

While Saladin explored how a school system targets students of color like Miles with characters like Assistant Principal Dutcher and Sean, Cody is looking at the systemic impact of schools like Brooklyn Visions through Raneem. And it’s fantastic. It’s all fantastic.

As for the character herself, Raneem Rashad is Miles Morales’ narrative foil. That is his forever enemy. A true Spider-Man Classic villain throwback. While Bruce Wayne’s rogues spiraled into mental health caricatures, Spider-Man’s rogues has always been about unchecked corruption from the top filtering to the masses. There are levels to Spider-Man villains. You have guys like Sandman and Rhino who are down on their luck or you have folks that have been spurned or sleighted by higher institutions like Doc Ock and Vulture. Then you have Norman Osborn or Wilson Fisk. Raneem is a little column A and Column B. What makes her special that she is specifically a Miles Morales Spider-Man villain. Slott can’t just pluck her out and have a character that he’s writing embarrass her like he did the Assessor.

Rabble is a Miles Morales classic that is so specific to Miles that it would be highway robbery to pair her with someone else(not that it would stop Tom Holland’s Spider-Man from trying).

You can’t replicate this animosity.

And yeah. I mess with it.

Cody, just like Ahmed was, is the right choice to helm this comic because Cody is,not meant as a pejorative, woke. The art is fantastic which is expected from Federico Vincentini and colors Bryan Valenza. This isn’t Federico’s first time drawing in a Miles Morales comic as he was also behind the Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales mini so it’s nice that his chaotic and frantic style was given some room to explode on the page.

My only critique is that this arc should have at least highlighted Miles other supporting cast that goes beyond Ganke Lee and Miles’ immediate family. Barbara Rodriguez, Judge, Sean, and etc. but otherwise, BRAVO, Cody Ziglar. I look forward to your future additions to this run.

@ubernegro

[superheroes-or-whatever]

Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022-) #5 art by Federico Vicentini

[why-i-love-comics]

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #19 - "Retribution III" (2024)

written by Cody Ziglar art by Federico Vicentini & Bryan Valenza

[ieatstardust]

monoma always considered himself a writer of sorts. whether from books to poems, lyrics, or short stories he always manages to find himself coming back to writing. it was a way to cope, to feel, to live. but he could not for the life of him find the courage to share his work, his.. art dare he say.

Monoma if you asked him, would say he was particularly good at describing emotions, thoughts, and people. he enjoyed character studies and diving deep into why people and or characters are the way they are. He'd stay up late at night just, daydreaming sometimes about characters, stories people and so much more. He would spend hours on top of hours spinning stories in his head, to lull himself to sleep, to keep him occupied, or to just simply not be bored.

He did it more often than he would like to admit, but everyone daydreams from time to time, right?

[comicwaren]

From Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2 #019, “Retribution: Part 3”

Art by Federico Vicentini and Bryan Valenza

Written by Cody Ziglar

[heckcareoxytwit]

Team Miles VS Team Gao

Miles Morales and his team are up against Agent Gao and her team who are now upgraded with Rabble's weapons/technology. With Rabble's help in upgrading their weapons, Team Gao have become more formidable in battle. While the two teams are fighting, Miles Morales goes after Rabble to settle a score with her. The fight doesn't go well for Team Miles when Shift gets shot down by Scorpion's tech weapon. The fight between Miles and Rabble goes evenly matched when Miles uses electricity against Rabble's drones despite his injury. Just then, Miles gets a call from one of his teammates informing him that Shift had been shot down. The angry Miles Morales tearfully unmasks himself and he vows that he would take her down with no-holds barred.

Miles Morales: Spider-Man v2 #18, 2024

[shokuto]

You guys wouldn’t believe it but Tomoe is probably Miles’ most influential villain

Literally the blueprint for the female technopath criminal archetype they’ve had Miles fighting with ever since

Spider-Man #20 (2017)

Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020)

Miles Morales: Spider-Man #3 (2023)