Spotlight on Spider Widow

When Alpha Danger Squad: Karno's Perfect game gets released later this year, I am hopeful you will like "get" what I'm trying to do. And while I'm a big believer in show-don't-tell, I think you might want to wet your appetite on a bit more of the creative process behind each character. Or whatever.

Let me know if you've hear this: Dianne Grayton  was a bored socialite and athlete. So one day she slipped on  a halloween witch costume, and went off to fight crime. Well, that's the story of the Spider Widow, anyway.

Also, this book had some great Fourth Wall breaking.

The idea of a woman adopting an uglyfying persona in order to fight crime was probably as weird then as it is now, with fellow Quality heroine Phantom Lady as an example of  how publisher's fall to the allure of the cheesecake (and modern  DC teta-happy revivals of one and  complete oblivion of the other as further proof.) Not that I'm not into chessecake. But I've always been of a mind that if you can flip a table on expectations you probably should.We're not lacking in that factor, anyway.

But her scary looks were not enough to make her an outcast, and she soon inspired  fellow hero The Raven, and teamed up with him and the previously named phantom lady. No, not that one.

So, I'm more or less taking most of that into play. The key differences are as follows:

Dianne Grayton is a basketball star and a pretty succesfull one too. However, there's some trouble in her past. As a kid she witnessed a crime, which she never told anyone because it was so horrible. She carried with her the secret into adulthood. Unable to reconcile her guilt, she tried jumping off a tall building. But then she was saved by a spider-themed hero(no, not that one), who told her to more or less make something better out of her life with this new, second chance.

And so she adopted the identity of the Spider Widow as  a homage to her hero, and using remote controlled spiders to scare villians. The uniqueness of the spiders as an attack is that they follow along walls and cielings.