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SHE’D RATHER NOT TALK ABOUT IT: NEW ‘SPIDER-WOMAN’ TEAM ON JESSICA DREW’S PAST (AND FUTURE)

Last weekend at the “Women of Marvel” panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Comics announced a new ongoing Spider-Woman series that will debut in November, from writer Dennis Hopeless and artist Greg Land, which will follow directly on from events in the Spider-Verse crossover. We had the opportunity to have a quick chat with the creative team in the wake of the announcement, and ask a few questions about their plans for the series.

ComicsAlliance: Jessica Drew is a character with a notoriously convoluted history, and while she’s a fairly iconic figure for fans who came of age in the ’70s and ’80s (she even had her own Saturday morning cartoon), she hasn’t had a particularly high profile in comics in recent years. What should readers know about her going in?

Dennis Hopeless: I think of Jessica as a woman who has been down a long dark road. The whole thing was exhausting and most of the time she’d prefer not to talk about it. Which isn’t to say we’ll be avoiding Jessica’s past. She carries those experiences with her always and it very much colors how she approaches the world. Our story just leans more toward Jessica in the now. She’s dealing with problems right in front of her face.

I’m a big fan of the Bendis/Maleev Spider-Woman series and “the Skrull years” fascinate me so I’d love to eventually revisit some of that. It just might be a while before we get there. Jessica has a lot of moving forward to do before she’ll have time to look back.

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