Donald Glover is finally going to be Spider-Man. The Community star has expressed his love of the character in the past, even lobbying to play the character and even inspiring the creation of Miles Morales, who is the Spider-Man in the Ultimate Universe. USA Today announced today that Glover comes full circle and will be voicing Miles Morales in an upcoming episode of Ultimate Spider-Man: Web Warriors.
In 2011, Miles was introduced to comic-book readers in Marvel Comics’ Ultimate Spider-Man series by Brian Michael Bendis, after the writer saw Glover’s Twitter campaign to play Spidey in a live-action movie — and witnessed Glover dressed up in Spidey pajamas on the NBC sitcom Community.
“I don’t think it’s hit me necessarily yet how big of a deal that is,” Glover, 30, says. “I’m very grateful for that, and it’s cool to read the comic now.”
The cartoon Miles is very close to the comic-book version: The 13-year-old is still getting used to being a superhero when he meets the dimension-hopping Peter (Drake Bell), who’s trying to stop his old nemesis the Green Goblin from collecting the DNA of various Spider-Men — from Spider-Man Noir to the porcine hero Spider-Ham — for nefarious reasons.
