Venture into the Spider-Verse with Araña and Spider-Man 2099 in a new Marvel prose novel

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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse will soon introduce moviegoers to Spider-Man 2099 (voiced by Oscar Isaac) who seems to be as much an antagonist as an ally to Miles Morales in the animated film.

But there's a lot more to Spider-Man 2099, who debuted in comics just over 30 years ago, and some of that depth will be explored in writer Alex Segura's upcoming Spider-Verse-centric prose novel Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow.

Before the novel's May 2 release, Newsarama spoke with Segura about what it's like to pair two classic spider-heroes in a new context, the differences between writing for comics and for prose, and more.

Newsarama: Alex, you're entering the Spider-Verse with Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow. How did you land on those two as the protagonists for this story?

Alex Segura: It happened really organically. I was talking to Marvel and the team at Marvel Press about possibly doing a YA novel with them, since we had some success working together on my Poe Dameron book from a few years back. I love Spider-Man, always have, particularly Miguel O'Hara. And it felt like a good fit, especially with the Spider-Verse film coming. 

But I also wanted to see what might happen when you paired Miguel with Araña. To my knowledge, they'd never teamed up for an extended period, just them, and it felt like there was a lot of story potential there - about an older, jaded hero learning from a new, energetic one and vice versa. So that felt like really fertile ground.

Nrama: What can you tell us about the story of Dark Tomorrow?

Segura: Dark Tomorrow begins in Brooklyn, New York - where we meet high schooler Anya Corazon, a sharp, strong-willed, and passionate teenager with a secret: she's gained Spider-like