December 06, 2005
November 27, 2005
WW: CHICAGO - BRIAN BENDIS Q&A
...Spider-Woman (new) series (will be) solo-written by Bendis with art by his Daredevil partner Alex Maleev. The former series will pull all the elements of Spider-Woman’s sometimes disparate origin stories together into one cohesive package, and the latter project will be very much a “darker, sexier, spy” type book, playing to Maleev’s strengths and frequently guest-starring Nick Fury.
...The Young Avengers will appear in the New Avengers in the future, and the young team will also appear in the Spider-Woman series. One of the first Spider-Woman stories will deal with the “Caterpillar File” from Secret War that tracks the illegitimate and unknowing children of supervillains.
November 26, 2005
… BENDIS ON SPIDER-WOMAN:... NEW ONGOING SERIES
...The ongoing series will be a SHIELD book, a spy-thriller. Much like "Daredevil" was a pulp book to a super hero book, "Spider-Woman" will be a spy book to a super hero book. You'll get her more super hero adventures in "New Avengers," while in her own title you'll be getting dark, sexy, spy stuff...
...You know, she's (Spider-Woman) got this classic Marvel tale of a bad childhood, an accident with her powers... she's got a lot of range in her. Every great Marvel character has a power that's cool, yet creepy at the same time. A blessing and a curse at the same time. She's got all this great stuff going on. There's just something about that arc of self-discovery that really appeals to me a great deal...
...And you know what I like? I like that she's not a rip-off of Spider-Man. Even when you read the original issues, there are all these guys who wrote essays like Marv Wolfman who said how determined they were to surprise people and show she wasn't a rip off. They worked so hard to do that. When you read the issues, the stories are almost like a cliff note to a larger story. Like, we'd hear her tell the story about how Hydra screwed her over, but it's almost like a flashback to a comic that we never got to see. So, we're going to do that comic that you never got to see...
...it's (Spider-Woman ongoing Series) going to span the globe, it'll have all the familiar SHIELD guys. There are bits and pieces of SHIELD stuff that I've already discussed in other things, like the Caterpillar File in "Secret War." Some of the stuff in "Secret War" will be in the fore-front of "Spider-Woman." All the stuff happening in "New Avengers" and who she's reporting to, we're going to take a look at that. She's going to head on over to Madripor...
...there will be new characters for her to go up against, but considering the level of hero she was-- B-List, whatever you want to say-- she has a killer rogues gallery! Better than Daredevil! Morgana LeFey, the Brothers Grimm, Werewolf by Night, Silver Samurai, Madame Hydra, it just goes on and on.