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Witchfinder Angela And A Married Spider-Man With Kids For Secret Wars Series

Published Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:30:48 -0500

Last updated Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:52:14 -0500

Entertainment Weekly has the Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows news for Secret Wars, while Buzzfeed has the Angela: Witchfinder General Secret Wars series.

First, Renew Your Vows written by Dan Slott,

"Spider-Man, when you get down to it, is a character about responsibility. And the second he's a father and a husband—he has a responsibility to share his powers with the world, but suddenly he has two people that are his whole world. That changes everything, the complete dynamic of what it means to have great power and great responsibility…You need to be there for your daughter, you need there for your wife—in a way that he hasn't had to be there for anyone else. And that drastically changes what it means to be Spider-Man."

"You haven't seen Spider-Man's classic villains the way you know and love—I wouldn't be surprised to see Eddie Brock as Venom in this story… Or Sergei Kravinoff as Kraven the Hunter in this story. There's going to be a lot of bullets in the gun for things you wanted to see in a Spider-Man story that you haven't seen in a while. This is the ultimate classic feel. This is the last Eddie Brock story. The stakes have never been higher for Peter Parker because he's never had so much to lose. So he has never been this close to the edge. And these are the Last Days."

And for Witchfinder Angela, set in the 1602 universe last seen in Spider-Verse, written by Angela writers Marguerite Bennett and Kieron Gillen. Buzzfeed talked to Marguerite,

I'm co-writing the series with Kieron Gillen, and we're gonna have a similar structure to our current book, a 15-page overstory that focuses on Angela and Sera and a five-page substory that is a tale that Sera is telling. The art is being done by Stephanie Hans, who did the painted five-pagers in the first Angela arc, and her style is just so gorgeous and I could not hope for anyone better to help me bring this to life. The five-pagers in 1602, they'll each be drawn by a different artist.

We've got a 1602 Bucky Barnes, and we've got 1602 Guardians of the Galaxy, which has never been done before! So yeah, we're very excited to have fun with it and tear off full speed ahead.

In terms of Sera, how will we see a transwoman represented in 1602?

MB: Well you know, despite the fact that gender roles are so narrow during that day and age there were lots of portions of society where you were given freedom, the further from the court life you were. Court life, which we understand, where most of our historical records and most of the art of the day was coming from. So when we involve you know, holy orders such as what Angela essentially is, even in the standing Marvel universe, you can get into a little more freedom. There are a number of historical monks who were women and people who were allowed to live healthy trans lives in these halls of higher learning. These orders of monks were mostly responsible for the preservation of art and literature. It's funny that these halls of learning and highly sequestered gender roles are the best place to find lots of trans people throughout history.

Only a few to go now… House Of M, Civil War and Age Of Apocalypse?

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