Your wife sounds like she's pretty stellar, man!
Helping to steer this all back on topic, From the past few years, I've read quite a bit about Miles, and he has always pretty bland in the comics. VERY generic. I don't mean that he doesn't have potential, but I read both volumes of Spider-Men, and my son has a few Miles comics, and I've read some of his interactions with Peter over the years, and he just doesn't have enough zing to him. It's like Ultimate Peter Parker, but stripped of that spark! I can't remember who said it, but I will mirror what someone else said, "I feel like I learned more from seeing Miles singing at his drawing board than I have from 5 years in the comics".
I can't disagree. He has one of the SICKEST Spidey suits, and his powers are awesome, but it just seems like the personality hasn't been there. This movie has done the OPPOSITE, and made me genuinely care about him. My wife was even watching the clip of him singing this weekend because she thought it was funny. She thought his family seemed interesting.
I wiki's him the other day, and man...what a convoluted back story! Looking forward to seeing the movie Saturday, though!!