—Spider-WomanHow many times can you answer the same question before people stop asking? I quit the Avengers five weeks ago today. And everyone I've ever meet is dying to know why. I'm beginning too think it's not much curiosity as it is... that nobody likes my answer. Tell your dentist you've just willingly given up your rent-free apartment in Avengers Tower -- and turned in your S.H.I.E.L.D. international super-spy expense account -- because you want to try living a normal life -- she will tilt her head at you like a confused terrier. I get it. Sounds weird. But Look, my parents were mad scientists who pumped me full of spider-juice just to see what would happen. I went to Hail Hydra high school and Nick Fury university. Everyone I've ever dated has super powers. (Except Hawkeye.) I've been extraordinary my entire life. After all these years of insanity... a little ordinary sounds pretty #$%^ great. What? This doesn't look very normal to you? Am I caught in the web of an apocalyptic Multiversal Spider-Orgy? Or fighting off a cosmic-level extinction event? No. I don't hear Maria Hill chirping need-to-know double talk into my ear. And as far as I can tell, I haven't been abducted and replaced by any Skrull Queens. You have your normal... and I have mine. This is what I wanted. Old school. Street level. Helping the innocent by hospitalizing the guilty.
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Daily Bugle
- Ben Urich
- Unnamed members
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. (Referenced)
- Jonathan Drew (Referenced)
- Miriam Drew (Referenced)
- Hydra (Referenced)
- Nick Fury (Referenced)
- Hawkeye (Clint Barton) (Referenced)
- NYPD
- Maria Hill (Referenced)
- Veranke (Referenced)
- Spider-Man (Peter Parker) (Mentioned)
- Captain America (Steve Rogers) (Mentioned)
- Unnamed prisoners
- Daredevil (Matt Murdock) (Mentioned)
- Ben Urich's niece (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Haley Davis (First appearance; photo)
- Rebecca Clyde (First appearance; photo)
- Carla Townley (First appearance; photo)
- Mauler and Haley's sons (Mentioned)
- Mauler (Brendan Doyle) (Photo)
- Señor Suerte (Ramón García) (Photo)
- Big Wheel (Jackson Weele) (Photo)
- Leap-Frog (Vincent Patilio) (Mentioned) (Comatose)
- Vincent's daughter (Mentioned)
- Dr. John Watson (Referenced)
- Sherlock Holmes (Referenced)
- Who's behind the kidnappings (Mentioned)
- Olivia Gocking (First appearance; photo) (Unnamed)
- Kalie Gocking (First appearance; photo) (Unnamed)
Races and Species:
Realities:
Locations:
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York
- New York City
- Queensboro Bridge
- Manhattan
- Midtown
- Sutton Place
- Avengers Tower, Columbus Circle (Referenced)
- 43rd Street (Mentioned)
- Times Square
- Green Bank (First appearance)
- Upper East Side (Photo)
- Midtown
- Brooklyn
- Bronx (Photo)
- Staten Island (Photo)
- New York City
- New York
- United States of America
- Hell (Invoked)
Items:
Vehicles:
- Big Wheel (Photo)
Events:
- Spider-Verse (Referenced)
- Infinity (Referenced)
Synopsis for 1st story
Jess attempts to act as an independent superhero, without much success. Ben Urich tries to hire her to investigate the disappearance of relatives of super-villains and she initially refuses, but when after a confrontation with the Porcupine she discovers that his daughter is also missing, she decides to work on the case.
Solicit Synopsis
• With SPIDER-VERSE in the rear-view, Jessica strikes out to make a new life for herself.
• But she’s not going to do it alone, as she’s joined by new SPIDER-WOMAN supporting cast-mate and classic Marvel character BEN URICH!Trivia
- Spider-Woman's new costume was designed by Kris Anka.[1]
- Despite the fact that she's dated two unpowered men before, David Ishima and Jerry Hunt, Spider-Woman claims that Hawkeye is the only person she's ever dated without powers.
- While fighting Roger, Jess mentions that hedgehogs are only super-fast in video games, referencing Sonic the Hedgehog.
