Marvel’s new gay Spider-Man debuts with flirty interaction with a fellow superhero

Marvel’s first gay Spider-Man arrives in issue #5 of the comic book publisher’s Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries, out tomorrow. Ahead of the character’s official debut, a preview of the issue hit the internet, revealing Web-Weaver flirting with a fellow superhero.

The single page from the series’ final issue shows the openly queer hero exchanging flirtatious banter with an alternate universe version of a vigilante hero known as Silk, who Web-Weaver describes as “frustratingly hot.”

MORE SILK!!! Sorta. This is from the preview for Edge of Spider-verse 5 coming out next week. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. pic.twitter.com/8ZU6ME4dXz

— Emm《READ SILK #5》doitnow (@account_silk) September 30, 2022

Out comic writer and the co-creator of Web-Weaver Steve Foxe tweeted a couple panels from the same page earlier this week, explaining that the version of Silk in Edge of Spider-Verse #5 is not, in fact, a gender-flipped version of the character fans know from the main Marvel Comics universe, as fans have apparently been speculating.

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“Cooper Coen, the winsome Web-Weaver, is a brand-new character. His world is full of familiar faces—heroic, villainous, mutant, and more!—in *very* different contexts,” Foxe tweeted. “But no ‘gender-flipped’ love interests.”

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Cooper Coen, the winsome Web-Weaver, is a brand-new character. His world is full of familiar faces—heroic, villainous, mutant, and more!—in *very* different contexts.

But no “gender-flipped” love interests ;)

— Steve Fo