What kind of person would be fine with the following....

[Nevernose]

28. For the record, there was a multiracial Spider-Man in 1992

Miguel O'Hara, son of a Pierto Rican mother and an Irish father.

And Miles Morales has been around since 2011.

I think (or at least hope) that this is more a backlash against Marvel's nefarious agenda to kill off Peter Parker in all continuities. He's been dead in the main run for 15 issues now (his body is alive, but his mind was replaced by Otto Octavius's'), and it's really starting to piss off the fans. They even renamed the flagship title "Superior Spider-Man."

They're also destroying, or at least fucking up the Ultimates universe, probably due to bad sales recently. I suspect that Miles and a few others (like the black Nick Fury) will transition into the main Marvel-616 universe.

While I'm ranting about multiculturalism in comics: at least Marvel tries. The first gay superhero was in 1991 or so. Powerman was one of many attempts in the 70s at inclusiveness (although I was recently re-reading some of my Powerman and Iron Fist issues, and it was "accidentally" racist. Funny, in retrospect). And the explanation for the black Nick Fury, who actually existed before Sam Jackson played him in the movies? The original Nick Fury would be in his 90s (I actually collect "Sgt. Fury and His Howlin' Commandos" -- he knew Captain America before the super soldier serum), so the retcon is that in the 1960s, Nick Fury had a torrid love affair with a black woman, producing Nick Fury Jr. Personally, that's one of my favorites, because while the fastest growing race on America is "multiracial," those youngsters don't have many superheroes of their own, and now they've got Samuel L. Jackson in "The Avengers."

In 12 years at DU, this is the frat time I've ever been able to tie my prolific and intimate, yet largely useless, knowledge of Marvel superheroes to current political events.