Marvel Comics is currently publishing a limited comic series exploring alternate versions of their popular hero Spider-Man called Edge Of Spider-Verse. After an e-mail announcement about the creative team, comic site Bleeding Cool cleared up confusion about the creative team for next month’s issue 5 with the confirmation that its story of Peni Parker, a teenage girl of Japanese heritage who co-pilots a mech called “SP//dr,” will be written by Gerard Way, author of the well received Umbrella Academy and lead vocalist for the band My Chemical Romance. The issue will be illustrated by Jake Wyatt.
Way’s Umbrella Academy and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys were published by Dark Horse. This will be his first Marvel comic.
“In a futurist city fairly different from the New York we are familiar with, our version of Spider-Man takes the shape of a government project: SP//dr. SP//dr is comprised of three vital components: a pilot, a machine, and a radioactive sentient spider acting as one half of the brain that makes it all work. Peni Parker is a young girl, who, left parentless, is adopted by her Aunt May and Uncle Ben, the two heads of the SP//dr project. When they realize Peni is the only one who can successfully pair with SP//dr, they make the unorthodox decision to train her as SP//dr’s newest pilot.”
Way drew inspiration from mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo as well as writer and artist Paul Pope.
“I started with the work of Otomo, and drew from his books Domu and Akira, for the overall feel of everything,” he explains. “Being a big Paul Pope fan, I also drew from his work from THB and Batman Year 100. I started with the visual concepts and then built the story around that. I knew I wanted a little girl piloting a machine, and a psychic spider friend. I wanted to keep the aspect of the radioactive spider ‘bite,’ and make it work in a new way, and that provided the glue of the concept.”
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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain’t It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.
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