Spider-Verse’s wheelchair-using hero started out as a fan-art ‘spidersona’

polygon.com:

There’s a new Spider-Verse in town, and the thing we’re most excited to see is the resurgence of the “spidersona” — the joyful explosion of art as fans and artists show off how they’d like to look if they were a part of the Spider-Verse. We’ve got goo spiders, and dewspiders, and spiders with cool spooky fingers, and man-spiders, and… hm. This one is a pelican? I love that for them.

But the biggest fan-art spidersona out there is undoubtedly Sun-Spider — because she actually made it into Across the Spider-Verse.

[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.]

If you’ve seen Across the Spider-Verse, then you know — when Miles is fleeing from an entire multiverse of spider-persons, the group includes a wheelchair-using spider who clocks Miles with one of her crutches. Then she makes a joke about how Spider-Mans tend to use humor as a crutch, followed by an apology for that joke being so terrible. (Which shows a real understanding of Spider-humor.)

That’s not just any spider — she’s Sun-Spider (originally Sunspider), created by cartoonist Dayn Broder.

I uh… made a thing. she's my <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/spidersona?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#spidersona

and she has retractable crutches that shoot webs because hey! I can be disabled and still also a superhero pic.twitter.com/vRVtOcx0H4

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A comics editor, designer, and freelance writer, Broder first tweeted their Sunspider art in the wake of Into the Spider-Verse’s 2018 release. A year later, when Marvel was readying a new Spider-Verse miniseries, the company reached out to more than a dozen spidersona artists to commission new art of their inventions and feature them in the pages of the series — and Broder was on the