Actor and rapper Donald Glover will voice Miles Morales in Ultimate Spider-Man in the upcoming season of the Disney XD series.

Miles Morales (voiced by Donald Glover) in Ultimate Spider-Man. Image courtesy of USA Today

USA Today reports that Glover (Community) landed the role of Morales, who became Spider-Man in the Ultimate comics after that world's Peter Parker died - something that will also be the case on the animated series' alternate reality where Miles is introduced. The animated Peter and Miles will meet up in Ultimate Spider-Man during a "Spidey-Verse" storyline that finds Peter meeting versions of his alter ego from various realities — which also includes Iron Spider, Spider-Man 2099, and Spider-Ham — set to debut next year."Spider-Man is the best because you just don't know who he is, and he's funny and he's poor," Glover said. "I understand Spider-Man a lot on that level. He's just trying to make it."Back in 2010, before Miles was introduced in the comics, there was a fan movement for Glover, a huge Spider-Man fan, to play Spidey on the silver screen. While the 30-year-old actor may not be portraying the Marvel webslinger in live-action (at least yet), it is fitting that he's ultimately portraying Spider-Man in another way. But Glover still has aspirations to play the character in a larger capacity."I still have hopes to do something like that one day," he said. "I don't look at this as second place. Spider-Man, he's such an icon — you have to do something with him."The third season of Ultimate Spider-Man will start at 9am this coming Sunday on Disney XD.

Evan Campbell is a freelance news writer who streams games on his Twitch channel , talks about Nintendo weekly on the NF Show , and chats about movies and TV series on Twitter