The Spider-Verse is an ever-growing web of Spider-heroes from all across the Marvel Multiverse, and now, that network is coalescing into a Spider-Society in which all Spiders everywhere are members by default. Writer Alex Segura and artist Scott Godlewski are bringing the Spider-Society together later this summer to take on an equally impressive foe - the Sinister Squadron, a conglomerate of multiversal foes of Spider-Man. We caught up with Segura ahead of Spider-Society #1's August 14 release to talk about what it's like writing a team that has nearly infinite potential members, who his personal favorite Spiders are, and how this all fits into the Spider-Verse we've seen so far.
And along the way, we've got some new interior pages from Spider-Society #1 that introduce the villainous Sinister Squadron. Newsarama: Alex, you've been playing in the Spider-Verse for a little while now, but this is even bigger. How did Spider-Society come about, and how does it relate to what we've seen so far? Alex Segura: Editor Nick Lowe reached out to me with the idea a while back and I immediately said yes.
I've done a few Spider-Verse stories before this, specifically two Araña adventures in Edge of Spider-Verse and my novel, Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, so Nick knew I had an affinity for the characters. We talked about it being a team book pulling from the vast collection of Spider-Heroes and really leaning into the character drama that comes with that, which immediately got my.
