Welcome to Geektown

View Original

Episode 173: Who Are Madame Web and the Spider-Women?

Your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio

Episode 173: Who Are Madame Web and the Spider-Women? Kurt Onstad

Inspired by the recent Sony movie (which, while not good, is fun in its own way), we go through the comic book counterparts of the four lead women to see how they are all interconnected in multiple ways throughout their respective histories.

I never understand why blind people would wear blindfolds.

Despite them being psionic in nature, the webs still come from Julia’s hands, not her head.

Julia as Madame Web #2. You can understand how this costume, and…

…this costume made me think Dakota was playing Julia at first.

One of Mattie’s many costumes (the changing outfits became a running joke in her ongoing book)

Anya as Araña.

And in her current Spider-Girl (aka Julia’s old Spider-Woman) costume.