Get a first look at Spider-Woman's all new costume for Marvel comics!


It took 37 years but Marvel's Spider-Woman has finally gotten a new costume! Since her debut in 1977, Jessica Drew, aka Spider-Woman, has been wearing the same iconic suit to fight crime but that is all about to change.

Spider-Woman has been quite busy lately and her stories have taken her all over the Marvel universe.
"In recent years, she's led a notably insane life, even for a Marvel superhero — Secret Invasion revealed that she'd been replaced for years by a shape-shifting alien Skrull, she's gone through a number of crazy superspy missions, Infinity threw her and the rest of the Avengers into an intergalactic battle to save Earth, and in Spider-Verse, the character's been tasked with keeping various newbies safe in the middle of a conflict involving several parallel universes."

Now that's a busy life. I would say after all that that Spider-Woman deserves a new costume. What fans might not expect is where the new suit is debuting. You can get your first glimpse of the new suit in the Spider-Man Unlimited mobile game (that is a lot of fun and you should check out) before it hits the Spider-Woman comics in March. Instead of keeping the full body spandex, Jessica Drew will now be sporting a more modern look that keeps her Spider-Woman presence in tact. The outfit is comprised of a lot more leather, black pants, two-toned gloves and a jacket that can transform from hip street wear to superhero gear in a moments notice.
"As much as I'm a fan of spandex and it has its time and place, I felt Jess as a character could move away from that for a good long while," says Spider-Woman editor Nick Lowe.
"Spider-Man isn't really a detective — he swings around looking for trouble, whereas Jess needs to go and figure stuff out and dig things up, and you can't really do that head to toe in spandex very well," Lowe says.
"To operate on the level she wants to, she needs something that can pass for semi-normal and she can turn it on to crazy if she needs to."
This make-over is similar to the one that DC's Batgirl recently received and like Batgirl's I absolutely love it. I think this look is perfect for Spider-Woman and a wonderful modern update from her original look. How do you feel about Spider-Woman's new look? Think it is a good update or should they have went with something closer to the original?

Spider-Woman's old suit (Left) and new suit (Right).


Source: USA Today

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