Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance is writing the plot for Marvel Comics' Edge Of Spider-Verse issue No. 5.
Marvel Comics is publishing a limited comic series on alternate versions of Spider-Man entitled Edge Of Spider-Verse. Comic site Bleeding Cool confirmed Way to write the story of Peni Parker, a teenage girl of Japanese heritage who co-pilots a mech called “SP//dr,” for issue number 5. The issue will be illustrated by Jake Wyatt.
Way has seen anime success already with his Umbrella Academy and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys, published by Dark Horse. Edge of Spider-Verse will be his first Marvel comic.
For the project, Way drew inspiration from mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo and artist Paul Pope.
“I started with the work of Otomo, and drew from his books Domu and Akira, for the overall feel of everything,” said Way. “Being a big Paul Pope fan, I also drew from his work from THB and Batman Year 100. I started with the visual concepts and then built the story around that. I knew I wanted a little girl piloting a machine, and a psychic spider friend. I wanted to keep the aspect of the radioactive spider ‘bite,’ and make it work in a new way, and that provided the glue of the concept.”
Marvel describes the premise of the comic as a futuristic city in which Spider-Man takes the shape of a government project. The project is comprised of three vital components: a pilot, a machine and a radioactive sentient spider acting as one half of the brain that makes it all work.
Watch below the episode "A Dysfunctional Family of Super Heroes Take Down a Murder-Bot" as part of Way's Dark Horse: Umbrella Academy.
