Tweet Tweet (Posted 4/7/2009)

You can now follow me on Twitter if you want. It’s usually nothing too exciting, but hey…

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Crosslisted (Posted 4/3/2009)

This Fanlisting has been crosslisted into the animation category.

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Spider-Woman Motion Comic (Posted 2/8/2009)

Spider-Woman will be the subject of a digital motion comic with voice actors playing the part of various characters from the Marvel Universe. Brian Michael Bendis, writer of the Spider-Woman print comic, is writing scripts specifically for motion comics that will be offered for purchase on iTunes. Alex Maleev, who did the art for Marvel’s motion comics presentation of Stephen King’s N by Marc Guggenheim, will be doing the artwork for the Spider-Woman motion comic as well as the print comic. It will be released as an ongoing series in tandem with the print comic, coming out at the same time. The motion comic will come out first, then the print comic will follow a week or two later.

“We’ve hired the actors, the voices. They’re really fantastic,” Bendis said. “Alex is kind of the director of the project. It’s more than being just the artist.”

“It’s a new territory for all of us,” Maleev said. “We’ll be doing our best to please you guys.”

“With the new medium comes a new storytelling language,” Bendis said. “We’re very excited to see where that takes us. And for those who are worried that all their comics are going away, that’s not the way we’re looking at it… What we’re hoping this will do is be one of those gateway books that gets people excited about comics.”

“We’re experimenting,” Buckley said, adding that the length of the motion comics, the price point and all the logistics of this medium are still being figured out. But he’s excited that Marvel is taking the first step.

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He’s Sorry (Posted 1/6/2009)

Bendis recently said. “Who Spider-Woman is, what she’s doing in the world and what that will be like are all very unique. The book also has a very interesting perspective on the post-’Secret Invasion’ Marvel Universe. I’m sorry to Spider-Woman fans for making her a Skrull but I think we’re going to make it up to you big time early next year.”

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Episode 1 Found on YouTube (Posted )

I found the first episode of the old Spider-Woman cartoon series on YouTube this morning. Enjoy!

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Where IS It? (Posted 1/4/2009)

So, Marvel’s March 2009 solicitation have been released, with no mention of the Spider-Woman series…maybe we can look forward to it in April?

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Spider-Woman Series Update (Posted 9/28/2008)

Spider-Woman: Agent of Sword by Bendis and Alex Maleev will debut March 2008. It will be the first ongoing by the team since they left Daredevil. “We’re hoping, god-willing, you guys-willing, we’ll stay on that book for a long time on this one as well,” Bendis said. Jessica Drew? Bendis: If she’s still alive, and “if the Skrulls didn’t eat her for Skrull Rosh Hashanah,” she might be in Spider-Woman: Agent of SWORD.  He added that readers will find out in Secret Invasion #8 whether Jess survives the Secret Invasion story-line.

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Spider-Woman Series Announced (Posted 6/29/2008)

Brian Michael Bendis announced recently at the Wizard World Chicago comic-con that, as he promised a couple years ago, an ongoing Spider-Woman series will be coming out in 2009 called Spider-Woman: Agent of SWORD. “It will be written by me and drawn and painted by Alex Maleev,” he said. “Now you know why it was delayed.” Benis added that “whoever it is who will be in the Spider-Woman costume will be in a very dark place. It’s going to be something in the same kind of tone as Daredevil for fans of that comic, but also something very new and different.”

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New Layout (Posted 6/23/2008)

I really need a new layout - coming soon, I hope.

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An Unsettling Turn of Events (Posted 6/22/2008)

Here are some various Spider-Woman images and covers relating to the recent Skrull invasion of the Marvelverse….which also imply an unsettling turn of events for our favorite heroine….dammit.

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Covers!! (Posted 6/20/2008)

And we pause for even MORE covers featuring Spider-Woman:

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Spider-Woman Origins (Posted 5/19/2008)

As posted to the Jessica Drew Wikipedia entry, the new Origins story retools a few bits of Jessica’s past:

Origin does away with the spider-blood serum and genetic accelerator elements of the character’s previous origin story. Instead, Jessica’s powers derive from her mother’s womb being hit by a laser beam containing the DNA traits of several different species of spiders while she was carrying Jessica (the Drews were trying to splice and harness spiders’ environmental adaptive capabilities, in order to graft them into the human genome).

After Jessica’s parents disappeared under mysterious circumstances, Jessica was recruited into HYDRA (under false pretenses), where she was made into a formidable fighter/assassin. She was trained and mentored by Taskmaster, who schooled her in many martial disciplines and more than seven different fighting styles out of his own “arsenal”.

In this re-telling, Otto Vermis, who had originally recruited her into HYDRA, is rather an old, retired HYDRA agent who Jessica seduces in order to gain information that will lead her to her mother.

In addition, Origin made the following modifications:

• Merriem Drew was now Miriam Drew.

• The Drews moved to Wundagore Mountain prior to Jessica’s conception, establishing without a doubt that she was born on the European landmark. Afterwards, she was raised by her nanny Bova (who was human in appearance), as well as her mother.

• Jessica’s father, Jonathan, never found uranium on their land. Instead, their research was funded by HYDRA, and their direct liaison/financier from the group was General Wyndham. It isn’t clear what connection, if any, he had with Edgar Wyndham (who in the original Spider-Woman books was Jonathan’s best friend and research partner), nor with the High Evolutionary.
• Jessica’s father was never possessed by the spirit of the Sixth Century magician Magnus; no reason exists for Magnus, decades later, to help Jessica in many of her adventures.
• Jessica’s father worked in large part with Miles Warren, who later left the project because he felt that there was more potential in experimenting with the cloning of human cells.

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Spider-Woman Origins (Posted 3/23/2008)

Spider-Woman Origins, Issues #1 - #5

Spider-Woman Origins Issue #1 Variant

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Spider-Woman in Color (Posted 3/3/2008)

Spider-Woman’s New Avengers Frank Cho covers, now in color:

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Frank Cho Covers Spider-Woman (Posted 1/23/2008)

Frank Cho is covering several issues of New Avengers (interiors too, oh my! I love Cho!) Previews below:

See more preview pages and covers at Comic Candy. I have a whole gallery of Jessica Drew images posted.

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