Marvel Announces First Gay Spider-Man Just in Time for Pride
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Edge of Spider-Verse #5!
Comic publishers like Marvel have been stepping up their game for Pride month more and more as the years go by, and on top of this year's anthology one-shot and Pride variant covers, Marvel has announced its first gay Spider-Man: Web-Weaver! The new character will debut in September's Edge of Spider-Verse #5 by Dan Slott, Steve Foxe, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, Bob MacLeod, and more. Co-created by Steven Foxe and Kris Anka, the new spider hero is just one of several being introduced to comics fans this fall ahead of Dan Slott's The End of Spider-Verse event series.
The first Edge of Spider-Verse series debuted in 2014, and it successfully shared the origins of popular new spider variants like Spider-Gwen and SP//dr while also reintroducing others like Spider-Man Noir. 2022's revamped Edge of Spider-Verse appears to take a similar survey of the web-slingers of the Marvel Multiverse. Among the spiders already announced to appear are returning heroes Araña and Spider-Man Noir and new characters Spider-Laird and Felicia Hardy, the Night Spider. This all leads up to yesterday's announcement of Web-Weaver.
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Sharing the news via Twitter, writer Steve Foxe gave fans a tease by way of a cover announcement and a quick blurb on the gay spider hero dubbed Web-Weaver. «A not-so-mild mannered fashion designer at Van Dyne gets spider-powers and shows us a very different kind of Spider-Slayer,» is the tagline describing Web Weaver in the Edge of Spider-Verse #5 solicit. If Web-Weaver's civilian career and wordplay were not enough to key fans in on the hero being part of the LGBTQ+ community, Foxe later
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