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    There's a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man — or Spider-Woman or Spider-Ham — for everyone

    by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times Dec 11, 2018 5 minutes

    It's a familiar origin story: A teenager gets bitten by a radioactive spider, gains enhanced spider-related abilities and becomes a costumed crime fighter.

    But "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" offers a new take on this well-trod formula by introducing young Miles Morales, a black-Latino teenager trying to adjust to life at a new school. He was already feeling a little out of place when he develops new abilities he can't quite control.

    It turns out there are many versions of this story across the multiverse and each reality in the vast web of alternate dimensions has its own Spidey-hero. In "Into the Spider-Verse," some of these Spider-Men, Spider-Women and even Spider-Ham come together to try to save the world. This doesn't surprise readers of the many Spider-Man comic books who know that Peter Parker is only one version of the radioactive superhero.

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