Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, who grew up a huge Spider-Man fan, will get to live out a childhood dream as the voice of Miles Morales, a 13-year-old half-black, half-hispanic Spider-Man, who was introduced in the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book series back in 2011, on the new season of Disney XD’s animated series “Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors”.
Back In 2011, Donald took to twitter and publicly campaigned to play Spider-Man in the reboot movie, but it went to actor Andrew Garfield. Fittingly enough, the show’s writer, Brian Michael Bendis, was inspired by those Gambino actions and decided to introduce ‘Morales’ character to the series after he saw the actor’s Twitter campaign and watched the entertainer dress up in Spider-Man pajamas on an episode of NBC’s show “Community”.
NBC’s “Community” show has come to end, but that isn’t stopping Childish Gambino, from hitting the small screen this season.
“I never liked Superman that much, because I was like, ‘Yo, this dude can’t die. It’s too easy. Batman is pretty fly. He’s a close second, just because he doesn’t really have powers. He’s just a justice-driven vigilante. Spider-Man is the best because you just don’t know who he is, and he’s funny and he’s poor. I understand Spider-Man a lot on that level. He’s just trying to make it.”
The opportunity to partake in a Spider-Man show is a dream come true for Gambino, who has signed numerous issues of Miles Morales comics for kids at his shows.
