Marvel is following up on some of the information given out at the NYCC panel last weekend in regards to the announcement of a Spider-Gwen series. The new title is planned for a February 2015 release with Jason Latour writing and Robbi Rodriguez on the art side. The issue of the Edge of Spider-Verse series that introduced the character proved to be quite the sell out, something that Marvel (and retailers) weren’t expecting, and it’s given them the impetus to look into the character and her own world in this new way.
Speaking with Marvel.com, Latour confesses that the drum-playing, rebellious Gwen Stacy, aka Spider-Gwen, has a long road ahead of her to prove she’s not the costumed menace the NYPD has painted her as– especially since her father is the NYPD Captain tasked with bringing her down. “[Spider-Gwen’s] journey is going to pull her father along into its wake. He knows her secret, and it’s a truth that threatens to make his world into a very dangerous lie.”
Latour also teased villains for Spider-Gwen and her father through the series, “We’ll absolutely see an ‘evil’ Matt Murdock (a.k.a. Daredevil), and the Kingpin. I’m a huge old school Daredevil fan, so I get this real sick thrill out of twisting him around and making him the villain. There’s also a new twist a character you’d immediately identify as a villain, who we’re re-casting as a more complex threat to Gwen and Captain Stacy—a character coming at her from within the system…”
“It’s a rare character that gets the public outcry that Spider-Gwen got,” says Senior Editor Nick Lowe. “From the sell-out of Gwen’s first appearance to the groundswell on Twitter we’re excited to bring more Spider-Gwen into the world with the creators who started it all!”
Marvel Comics’ Spider-Gwen swings into comic book retailers in February 2015.
