- Forget Asterix, Tintin and even Goku. Comics today have new heroes and new heroines.
- On the occasion of the Angoulême comics festival, 20 Minutes makes the presentations.
- Today, two comic book heroes: Harley Quinn and Miles Morales.
They are no longer called Asterix, Tintin, Mafalda, Clark or Goku, but Esther, Harley, Miles, Emma or Legoshi. If the "old" headliners of the comic strip are still there, sometimes in the top sales, new heroes and new heroines have pointed the end of their schoolbag, costume or muzzle, and bring the comic strips to life, comics and manga. On the occasion of the Angoulême festival, 20 Minutes made the presentations with, to continue, Harley Quinn, anti-heroine of DC Comics, and Miles Morales, the new Spiderman from Marvel.
Harley Quinn at DC Comics
Before being a comic strip figure, Harley Quinn was born on the small screen, created in 1992 by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm, in the animated TV series Batman. She is then introduced as an acolyte of the Joker, the great enemy of the Dark Knight. In the civil status, Harleen Quinzel is a young graduate in psychiatry, who tried to "cure" her accomplice, before falling in love with him. Interned in turn, she escapes from Arkham by donning a harlequin costume and joins the Joker.
Long defined by the abusive relationship she has with the Joker, Harley Quinn has now become emancipated, lives her own adventures and leads a romance with Poison Ivy. An emancipation on paper and on the small screen, first, and soon to the cinema: Birds of Prey and the fantastic story of Harley Quinn , in theaters on February 5, allows the character interpreted by Margot Robbie to live his own adventures without the Joker, and to make an alliance with a team of women.
If Harley Quinn is almost 30 years old, her great popularity is more recent. It is now identifiable by the general public, in particular from Suicid Squad . She inspires many cosplays, and currently appears in four separate comic book series, including three in her name. Above all, it is the very admission of Jim Lee, co-editor of DC Comics, the fourth pillar of the publisher, just after Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.
Miles Morales, aka Spiderman, at Marvel
Spider-Man, new hero? Surely not. But his alter ego Miles Morales, yes. This Brooklyn teenager, mixed race Latin and black American, was created in 2011 by screenwriter Brian Michael Bendis and designer Sara Pichelli. It appears in the Ultimate universe, an alternative dimension of the Marvel universe.
Bitten by a biologically modified spider straight out of the labs of the Oscorp company, Miles obtains powers similar to those of Peter Parker. When he died eleven months later, he took on the role of Spider-Man. His adventures are first told in the series "Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man". Since 2016 and the Secret Wars cross-over, Miles Morales has lived in "our" world. Member of the Avengers, he shares the role of Spider-Man with Peter Parker. While this one officiates in the whole world, Miles is the protector of New York.
Alex Alonso, the Marvel editor at the time, said that the 2008 election of Barack Obama inspired the change of ethnicity of the most popular hero of the "House of Ideas". Since its launch, reviews have been very positive, and Miles Morales has become a flagship character in the Marvel universe. Its popularity was confirmed with the general public in 2018, with the very beautiful animated film Into the Spider-verse .
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