Ahmed is also Muslim, and he grew up in Dearborn, Michigan. Marvel is the superhero alter ego of Kamala Khan, a Muslim Pakistani-American girl from New Jersey. Miles Morales is not the only diverse character that Ahmed has helped give voice to on the page. He’s a working-class kid from outer borough New York, and I think that’s all continuity with Peter rather than difference from him,” Ahmed said. "This sort of confused teenage superhero trying to balance everything at once and sort of constantly having stuff thrown at him. According to Ahmed, while Morales is a new iteration of this superhero, he actually shares a lot in common with the original Spider-Man Peter Parker. Ahmed took over the character of Miles Morales from creator Brian Bendis, and is putting his own stamp on the story.Īhmed said Morales, a young biracial man of African American and Puerto Rican descent, was an “absolute blast to write.” The writer has been a fan of the Spider-Man comics since he was a kid. Right now, he's the author of two major titles for Marvel Comics: The Magnificent Ms. From fantasy novels, to Westerns, to supernatural sleuth stories, Ahmed’s writing spans both genre and form. If writer Saladin Ahmed never typed another word, he'd already have introduced us to so many interesting people.
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