Marvel Adding 2nd Radioactive Spider Bite Victim To Spider-Man

[faefrost]

I must be getting old. because I can't escape the feeling that I have seen this before. many many many times.It's like yet another story idea cooked up by the drunken frat fools over in the marketing department. Granted sometimes someone does something halfway interesting with oneof these ideas. But still it sounds half baked, idiotic and disturbingly formulaic. One picture just screams to me that this is the nexus of everything that has been wrong with comics since roughly 1992. The only thing missing are pouches.

 

[Mahorfeus]

"Also bitten by a radioactive spider," okay, sure. I could buy that I guess. It'd be a Spiderman clone, but eh, all superheroes have at least one. Heck, if memory serves me correctly, Spiderman has had at least one literal clone.

But the same spider? For some reason, in lieu of the tangled web of convolution that is a comic universe, that is the detail that raises my brow.

 

[V4Viewtiful]

The House of Ideas at work, i' just glad S-man 2099 is coming back. This is just so uninspired.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Well she certainly seems to have the spider-ass abdomen for the role... and very few ribs. And massive bosoms.

I'm conflicted.

 

[Loop Stricken]

Her bizarre hip to waist ratio could also be due to the spider DNA (if her left hand is anything to go by), with her midriff resembling the join between a spider's cephalothorax and abdomen, and if webby tits and an insectoid body isn't already gross enough, I bet she also has 8 eyes and fangs.

If would be quite funny if this was true, that her hypothetical very sexualised silhouette was just a tease and in the light she resembles Jeff Goldblum's final form in The Fly.

Pfft, like that would stop me some people.

 

[Trishbot]

I have to say: My first reaction to this was "Wait, that isn't already a thing?" I thought step 2 of Superhero creation was 'Make a superhero that is literally the same, but a woman.' I'm actually incredibly surprised that it took them this long to make such a character for somebody as popular and long-lived as Spiderman.

It already IS a thing.

There are SEVERAL Spider Women (Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin, Charlotte Witter, Veranke) and Spider-Girls (Mayday Parker, Anya Corazon).

 

[Jamash]

Her bizarre hip to waist ratio could also be due to the spider DNA (if her left hand is anything to go by), with her midriff resembling the join between a spider's cephalothorax and abdomen, and if webby tits and an insectoid body isn't already gross enough, I bet she also has 8 eyes and fangs.

If would be quite funny if this was true, that her hypothetical very sexualised silhouette was just a tease and in the light she resembles Jeff Goldblum's final form in The Fly.

Pfft, like that would stop me some people.

Good point.

It's like how apparently Mermaid legends originated from sailors seeing Manatees and mistaking them for women.

It was probably less a case of mistaken identity and more a case of "close enough".

 

[cricket chirps]

Well her body proportions kind of match those of a spider, nearly non-existant waist and a bulbous arse region. I bet she's got a weird face which is why they're hiding it.

And if she really was bitten by the same spider I'm impressed. In fact I'd rather read a comic about that spider.

XD GODS I HOPE THAT IS WHAT THEY DO WITH THIS.

I was just thinking: 1. Yea the artist there isn't doing any good for sexism in comics, "big boobs" is passable(only because it truly is that commonplace in comics so artists tend to do so subconsciously at this point) but wow that non-existent waist, AND (suprise!!!!) a thigh gap! That's a new one i hope doesn't become commonplace.

2. New characters on the other hand are ALWAYS a good thing in comics, they either become really likable and interesting then stick around, or they simply disappear after a small run. Comic creators need to write in new characters often so that we get some new material that isn't the same old "Spidey gets harassed by goblin #3 for a while" story lines.

 

[CommanderL]

and here I was looking for a hoping for a series about peter geting his life on track and dealing with all the changes made by the doc

 

[schrodinger]

oh lordy, what the fuck is wrong with her waist to her hip bone? Not sure why people are focusing on the breast when her hips look so unnatural. Comic books and the obsession for contorting their female characters...

 

[antipunt]

I've seen enough ____ to know where this is going....

 

[martyrdrebel27]

ugh, they really missed the mark here. they had the opportunity to make a progressive advancement in female character design that wouldn't even have to have been shoehorned in. as a female version of spiderman, it makes sense that the character would naturally be an agile, fit, lithe character with "normal" sized breasts.

EDIT: I'm referring to a character pretty much exactly like Faith from Mirror's Edge. i feel like in retrospect, Mirror's Edge was ahead of it's time from a marketing perspective. If it had come out during our current level of Female Awareness, it would be more of a symbol and appreciated for its character design.

 

[caballitomalo]

Marvel reaaaally wants to make me regreat placin ASM to my pull list. Here was I AGAIN thinking, this one will be different, they wont tie it in to every freaking event and actually keep a consistent narrative and tell a hole story... but it seems I was dead wrong about Marvel comics... AGAIN!

Say what you will about DC but on the comic front they are doing way better imo.

 

[Baldry]

But superior spider-man was pretty decent...Definitely not on par with the clone saga or Brand new day.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

Not gunna lie. Her figure grabbed my attention as I saw her. It succeeded in getting my curiosity, though complaints about the new character in this thread are pretty valid. Also I saw her costume, I believe, with some net surfing.

Makes me realize I miss the female symbiotes from Separation Anxiety for some reason.

I hadn't kept up with Spider-man for a very long time.

Might be the angle that makes her figure look skewed?

 

[Loop Stricken]

Makes me realize I miss the female symbiotes from Separation Anxiety for some reason.

I wonder if Marvel could make a movie entirely about symbiotes... excluding Venom who's presumably still owned by Sony because Reasons.
Because by Christ we need a good symbiote film. Raimi screwed Venom over so hard.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Where's that picture of Tommy Lee Jones with a newspaper? Pretty much sums up my feelings from reading the thread.

More than half is complaining about character proportions. Actions count more than measurements, if she's a stupid character that runs into glass doors AND looks likeFemale comic book heroine #3 then people can really lather on the complain sauce.

But then I don't read comic books so HIGH HO SILVER, AWAAAAYYYYY!

 

[ExtraDebit]

It would be more interesting if they made a radioactive human bite a spider.

 

[Deadcyde]

Her bizarre hip to waist ratio could also be due to the spider DNA (if her left hand is anything to go by), with her midriff resembling the join between a spider's cephalothorax and abdomen, and if webby tits and an insectoid body isn't already gross enough, I bet she also has 8 eyes and fangs.

If would be quite funny if this was true, that her hypothetical very sexualised silhouette was just a tease and in the light she resembles Jeff Goldblum's final form in The Fly.

Pfft, like that would stop me some people.

Good point.

It's like how apparently Mermaid legends originated from sailors seeing Manatees and mistaking them for women.

It was probably less a case of mistaken identity and more a case of "close enough".

This comment made my day.

OT: the age old solution to an age old problem.. .can't write a good story? throw more characters at it.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

So... this chiok was bitten by the same radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker how many years ago (I have no idea considering comic book time and all) and she's only coming out now? Sorry Marvel, I'm just not buying it...