Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow Novel Announced

Anya Corazon, also referred to as Araña, is likely one of the many Spider-People at present webslinging round New York City. Now, nevertheless, author Alex Segura takes her on a brand new journey that strands her sooner or later, inflicting her to crew up with Spider-Man 2099, billionaire CEO Miguel O’Hara… and the 2 uncover they’ve comparable enemies within the current and the previous.

Segura is an award-winning creator, and has beforehand written the literary thriller Secret Identity, the Star Wars novel Poe Dameron: Free Fall, and the Pete Fernandez thriller sequence. io9 is worked up to announce his latest novel, Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow, and get the unique particulars on what followers can anticipate.

James Whitbrook, io9: You simply helped kick off a brand new chapter of Anya’s journey in Edge of Spider-Verse. What is it about her that drew you again to her?

Alex Segura: Araña holds a particular place for me as a result of I’ve such vivid recollections of first studying her adventures. It meant loads to see a Latinx Spider-character, and to get the possibility to put in writing a novel that in some methods reintroduces the character to readers felt actually vital and particular. That it comes after I acquired the possibility to additional her comedian ebook story can also be actually particular. Anya is pushed, gifted, and courageous—however she’s additionally studying. In some ways, she has loads in widespread with Peter Parker throughout his early days. But she’s additionally her personal particular person and looking for her means in a sophisticated world. I feel that’s very relatable, regardless of your age or life expertise.

io9: Why was Miguel the pure foil for Anya in Dark Tomorrow? What made him the right mentor within the Spider-verse for her?

Segura: In the ebook, we discover each heroes at very completely different factors of their careers—Anya is beginning out a bit aimless, and looking for some steerage when it comes to how one can be a hero. On the flipside, Miguel is reeling from a serious tragedy and isn’t certain he even needs to be Spider-Man anymore. So once they meet, we have now two characters that basically want one another, however they’ve to comprehend that, and so they should evolve to the purpose the place they may help one another. That felt actually fascinating to me—to chronicle that wrestle for Miguel, to drag him again to being a hero, and on the identical time have Anya study from him and are available into her personal. Honestly, once we talked concerning the thought, it felt so pure that I used to be amazed we had been getting the possibility to discover it first. Their dynamic was my favourite a part of the novel.

io9: Obviously you’re a novelist for a dwelling in addition to a comics author, however what challenges are there in bringing characters made for the medium of comics into the literary medium? How completely different is your strategy than when you had been scripting this as a comic book?

Segura: I feel while you’re writing comics you’re collaborating—you’re beginning the mission and watching as others add and broaden in your thought. With a novel, whereas I understand it’s enjoying in an present sandbox—you’re form of driving the entire sensory expertise. I can’t depend on the artist so as to add visuals to my dialogue or scene descriptions. It’s a special form of problem. As a fan of each characters, I wished to take the chance that prose gives and get into their heads a bit greater than we’d see in comics, and in addition to discover a particular stability—the place the story is vast open sufficient that new readers can take pleasure in it, but in addition loaded with winks and nods for longtime readers. There are a couple of characters I used to be actually stunned I acquired to make use of—in order that was a blast.

io9: Where do you need to see Anya’s journey go as a personality? Do you suppose she has the potential to interrupt out much more on the earth of Spider-heroes?

Segura: Oh, undoubtedly. I feel she’s an incredible and versatile character with a ton of upside. I’d like to see her proceed to remain within the highlight for a very long time to come back. She looks like she’s actually prepared to interrupt out.

And, I’ve to say—Miguel was a game-changer for me, as a Cuban-American center college child obsessive about Spider-Man. I’ve vivid recollections of shopping for that first, holo-foil situation of Spider-Man 2099 by Peter David and Rick Leonardi and never solely being blown away by the comedian, however by the thought of Miguel. To see a Latinx Spider-Man was a revelation for me. Identifying with the characters you’re studying is so vital and very important—it caught with me since, and that second performed out in my head many occasions as I wrote Miguel and Anya’s journey.

Araña and Spider-Man 2099 goes on sale May 2, 2023, and is out there to pre-order.

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