Are the venom blasts natural or an artifice like Spiderman’s webshooters? If the former, how’re they (and flying) related to spiders at all?
Luke Cage is a very interesting character these days because of the development Bendis gave him in Alias. It’s not accurate to suggest he’s a nobody. Spider-Woman, maybe, but not Cage. Anyway, the Avengers have always been a couple big guns plus nobodies (Ant-Man was a founding member, fer cryin’ out loud!).
–Cliffy
The venom blasts are natural (“bio-electric” as I mentioned). According to this site she does in fact glide rather than fly. There are spiders who “parachute” so I suppose traveling by air fits the motif. She also apparently emits pheremones that attract men and repulse women. Huh, who knew? Her origin involves not just a spider component but also radiation, mystical energy and the High Evolutionary so I gather there’s some leeway in having her powers correspond exactly to those of a spider.
I remember a story where Spider-Woman and Dazzler were in some trap. Dazzler’s ability to convert sound to light could blast them loose, and the only ready source of audio was Spider-Woman’s singing, which was bad but effective.
Well the “first” issue was interesting enough. I can’t see how they are going to be able to incorporate the Sentry though. This guy is more powerful than pre-crisis Superman. He could take out the entire new team by himself. Think PC Superman with pyschic powers.
Who is the Sentry? Careful, spoilers to follow!
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The Sentry was a character created by Paul Jenkins for the Marvel Knights line. He is an unfathomably powerful superhero who is very similar to pre-crisis Superman with arguably even more power. We are introduced to the Sentry as a quasi-alcoholic with a dead-end life. Slowly but surely he begins to remember that he was once the Sentry, that Reed Richards was his best man and that the Hulk was once his sidekick.
The story unfolds that the Sentry’s mortal enemy was a creature known only as the Void. The Void had the power to destroy the Universe and the Sentry was the only one who could stop it. It turns out though that the Void is the Sentry or a mirror image of him. As Sentry exists then so to will the Void. In order to prevent the reemergence of the Void the Sentry simply has to cease to exist. Noone is poweful enough to kill him so Reed Richards, Dr. Strange and the Sentry himself come up with a plan for the Sentry to be forgotten even by the Sentry himself. It works and both the Sentry and the Void vanish from memory. As the Sentry regains his memories the Void returns. The story ends with the Sentry “leaving” again.
Great story that I have butchered with my summary. The interesting thing is that it is set in the Marvel continuity so I don’t know how Bendis can bring him back in without the return of the Void.