Araña - Totally Totem Teens - Matt Duarte

Araña in “Totally Totem Teens” by Matt Duarte

This scene is set in current continuity, that means Anya is in her black Spider-Girl outfit. She and Rikki Barnes (Nomad) are staking out a place. This page is set up in six panels. The first one is a wide and small panel, across the whole page. Panel 2 and 4, 5, 6 are all square and similar size, with panel 3 being a small square panel joining 2 and 4.

Panel 1

Description: Anya and Rikki are laying down on a rooftop, with binoculars, looking at something in the distance. They are bored and killing time with random chatter.

NOMAD: Look, all I’m saying is the Kree must have done something to her, because there is no way those boots stay up by themselves.

ARAÑA: No, dude, when I was with Carol in the Initiative she told me what the secret is...

(OFF-PANEL CHARACTER, interrupting): ARAÑA!

Panel 2

Description: Anya and Rikki both have stood up and turned around. Before them (on the right of the panel), stands a guy, mid 20’s, lanky and tall, without much in the way of muscles. He is wearing a home made outfit, with antenna, some shell wings, and huge goggles. It’s supposed to look like a cockroach. This is a new character called LA CUCARACHA!

LA CUCARACHA!: Araña, al fin! Preparate a enfrentarte a tu nemesis mas mortal, LA CUCARACHA!

Panel 3

Description: Small panel, just a close up of Anya’s foot kicking LA CUCARACHA! in the face.

Panel 4

Description: A shot from farther back, we just see the silhouettes of Anya and Rikki, still standing in the rooftop, while LA CUCARACHA! is tumbling back.

NOMAD: What was that all about?

ARAÑA: No idea, but I hate cockroaches.

LA CUCARACHA!: Ay, ay, ay!

Panel 5

Description: Anya and Rikki are now looking down from the side of a building. On the street, there is an old car with antennas glued to the hood. LA CUCARACHA! has fallen on top of it, and he is laying there injured and convalescing.

NOMAD: Did that guy just fall on top of his own ride?

ARAÑA: Either that or he just ruined some poor exterminator’s car.

LA CUCARACHA!: Ayyyy...No puedo caminar...

Panel 6

Description: Rikki and Anya are swinging away from the rooftop now, with their backs turned towards the reader.

NOMAD: Dude, you really need to get some better villains.

ARAÑA: Oh shut up, isn’t your arch-villain like a giant dog?

LA CUCARACHA! (off-panel, mumbling): Araña... Soy solo el primero...

El Final?

Araña - A Sticky Situation - Sime McDonald

1. We're inside a major metropolitan bank. The nefarious villain The Trapster is in the midst of a robbery - and it looks as though he's already defeated out heroine! Araña - outfitted as Spider-Girl - is ensnared in Trapster's icky adhesive. She's struggling against it, trying to free herself - but she's not having much luck.

CAPTION

So.

This is my life now.

2. Nearby, Trapster is yelling at the bank teller, his 'glue-gun' aimed squarely at the fellow's face.

TRAPSTER

Get me the money!

Now!!

Or I'll glue your ass to your chair!!

CAPTION

I thought I had higher standards than this.

  

3. On Spider-Girl, gritting her teeth, still struggling.

CAPTION

Then again, there was that whole Looter thing yesterday...

And he's probably below this guy in the bad guy spectrum...

4. Small panel, in tight on the adhesive that's binding Spider-Girl. A crack has formed.

SFX

Crrk!

CAPTION

Okay, maybe not...

5. Back to Trapster, furious at the bank teller's slow pace.

TRAPSTER

In the bag!

Put in in the bag!!

I will glue you where you stand, I swear to God - - !

6. Trapster's half-turning. Spider-Girl's hand is on his shoulder, and she's smiling smugly.

SPIDER-GIRL

Y'know, if there's one thing I figured you'd be good at,

it's the whole sticky-gluey thing...

7. Trapster looks deflated.

TRAPSTER

I...I...

I ran out of sodium carbonate and polyaminoamide...

That's why I needed the money...

8. Spider-Girl punches Trapster in the face.

SFX

POW!

SPIDER-GIRL

Yeah.

That's a shame.

END.

Araña - Teenagers Scare The Living $#!% Out Of Me - Rol Hirst

Panel One.

Spider-Man swings over the city. Yes, it’s one of those stories that begins with Spider-Man swinging over the city, and yes I’m using this week’s character as another thinly-veiled excuse to write Spidey. Sue me.

CAP (Spidey): People accuse me of never growing up.

CAP (Spidey): They accuse me of behaving like an eternal teenager.

CAP (Spidey): And it's true, I guess, to a point.

Panel Two.

Down on the street below, there’s a battle in progress. Spidey starts swinging towards the signs of mayhem.

CAP (Spidey): ‘Course, compared to the likes of Cap and Wolverine, I suppose I am still a little wet behind the ears…

Panel Three.

Spidey swings straight into a fight between Spider-Girl and the Circus of Crime – the Ringmaster, the Clown, the Human Cannonball, Live Wire and the Great Gambonnos. It’s chaos, but Anya is holding her own, leaping between the bad guys and delivering various knock-out blows while also playing with her iPhone, listening to music on her mp3 player and talking to a friend over the phone.

CAP (Spidey): But when I look at the latest generation of spider-powered teens…

Araña: Will Josh be there? Did you ask him? What about his friend?

CAP (Araña’s tweet): @BuckyNomad Ha – just kicked a clown in the ass – best supervillain fight EVER!

Spidey: Can I be of assistance?


Panel Four.

Araña leaps away from the Circus and straight into Spidey’s face. Spidey is somewhat taken aback.

Araña: Butt out – I can deal with this myself! Jeez!!!

Panel Five.

Close on Spidey, shocked.

CAP (Spidey): …sometimes it feels like almost fifty years since I was in High School!

Araña – All Those Ye Know – Ryan K Lindsay

1. Anya is walking up the steps to her apartment. She is wearing nice, clubbing-style clothes, with a large jacket covering most of it except for what we see through a slip in the front. Next to her is Rikki Barnes, see if you can give her some sort of clubbing version of the Nomad outfit she wears, that would be pretty sweet.

Anya: My feet are killing me.
Rikki: The way you were dancing with that guy I’m surprised something else isn’t hurting you.

2. Anya turns at the railing at the top of the stairs, there’s faux-shock on her face, mixed with a smile.

Anya: Totally worth it.
Rikki: Nothing better than a night out.

3. There is a huddled form at Anya’s door.

Anya: And a good morning home. You feel up for some breakfast burritos?
Anya: …
Rikki: A friend of yours?

4. Anya is reaching out a cautious hand to the huddled form.

Anya: Excuse me. Can I –

5. Anya is looking at the huddled form, looking right in the face. Anya recognises her but also looks a little disgusted.

Anya: I know you…we talked about the, uh…that place…
Huddled form (wh): Gramercy Park.

6. We see the huddled form now. It’s a young girl, she is disfigured. She is being transformed into some sort of human-spider hybrid, it’s not pretty, or successful. You can interpret this however you want, maybe an extra few sets of eyes, or mandible fangs. There will be other victims who should look different throughout this story so pick the most striking example for this reveal.

Huddled form (wh): He’s turning us all. Says he’s changing the future, evolving evolution.
Huddled form (wh): You have to stop Dr Brundle. Please.

Arana - Catch Me If You Can - Ben Rosenthal

1. We are looking up between two tall buildings at street level. A shadowed figure is leaping across the gap between the two buildings.

2. We are up at building level now, and the shadowy figure is revealed to be Anya. She is decked out in full Spider-Girl gear.

SPIDER-GIRL

Slowing down huh?

3. Close up of Anya’s face, front on. She is looking over her left shoulder, behind her. The buildings are whisking by in the background as she is moving at great speed.

SPIDER-GIRL

C’mon, you’ll never catch me at that pace.

4. Anya is swinging around the corner of a tall building from her grappling hook.

SPIDER-GIRL

Maybe your best days are behind you!

5. Spider-Man is hanging upside down from a web. He is waving at Anya. Above him is yet more webbing spreading the gap between two buildings. The word “FINISH” is written within the webbing.

6. Close up of Anya’s face. She is disappointed.

SPIDER-GIRL

Aw crap.

Araña - Boys Are Stupid, Throw Grappling Hooks At Them - Max Barnard

The Premise: For once, no premise. I just wanna write this.

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Page 1 - X Panels

1-- Daytime. We join Anya "Araña" Corazon (in her new Spider-Girl outfit) in the middle of a fight with Shocker, The Spot and Tombstone outside a bank. She's kicking off of Tombstone's face and flying towards The Spot with a fist ready to slug him in the face. Shocker is making a run for it with classic-style loot bags. You know, swag bags with huge green dollar signs on the side, that sorta thing.

SFX/FACEKICK - WAKKA!

SPEECH BUBBLE/ANYA CORAZON - Ugh, boys really ARE stupid. Robbing a bank in the day? Amateur hour, right?


2-- Araña's punch connects with The Spot's face, knocking him down. Tombstone has already fallen to the floor. Shocker is now further away, perhaps even off-panel by now.

SFX/FACEPUNCH - WAKKA!!

SPEECH BUBBLE/ANYA CORAZON - But then you ARE Spider-Man's villains. Can't he have someone NORMAL to fight, like an egytian assassin working for an evil cult?


3-- We now look over Araña's shoulder as she watches Shocker fleeing the scene. Her arm is raised, with the Spider-like grappling hook prepped on the back of her hand.

SPEECH BUBBLE/ANYA CORAZON - And you? Running from a little girl? Cobarde!


4-- Araña throws the hook after Shocker, who has turned around and raised his gauntlets, money still in hand.

SPEECH BUBBLE/SHOCKER - SHUT UP! I swear, I'll take you out, you stinkin' brat!


5-- Shocker blasts Araña, blowing her hook flying back past her and knocking her off balance and making her start to fall onto her rump.

SFX/SHOCKER'S BLAST - VWOOOOOOOOOORP


6-- Araña on the floor, wincing in pain.

SPEECH BUBBLE/ANYA CORAZON - Okay, not so dumb. Ouch. But still...


7-- Shocker is running away again and has made it to the end of the street. Araña can be seen some metres away, back on the chase.

CAPTION/ANYA CORAZON - Even if boys aren't dumb we can all agree...


8-- Nomad (Rikki Barnes) bursts onto the scene from round the corner, punching out Shocker with her electro-shielded arm.


9-- Rikki and Anya embrace, smiling at each other, standing over the knocked out body of Shocker.

CAPTION/ANYA CORAZON - Girls are just plain better, right?

Why Araña/Spider-Girl?

Because, quite simply, it can be nice to keep things current around here. And with Marvel's new Spider-Girl about to get a new series, and her team title just being announced as cancelled, you can't get more current than this.

Well, that and she's one of my favourite women in comics, and her new costume is just SO good.

But who is Spider-Girl? And for that matter what's an Araña anyway? Well, I'll tell you. Created by Fiona Avery and Mark Brooks and spinning out of the mildly controversial Spider-Totem material in Amazing Spider-Man, Araña is a young formerly super-powered Puerto Rican teenager, who was pulled into the spider society as the new hunter, until the end of her 3-volume series, where... it just kinda stopped. Since then she's been trained by Ms. Marvel, had her super-powered armour ripped off of her, and inherited Arachne's old costume in the wake of the incredibly popular Grim Hunt arc in Amazing Spider-Man earlier this year.

At current she's off double-teaming with Nomad frequently in both the Nomad back-ups in Captain America, and in the recently cancelled Young Allies, in which she finally accepted the title of Spider-Girl. The truly important development for her though is the new eponymous ongoing series by Paul Tobin and Clayton Henry in November, which promises such gems as our powerless heroine taking on the RED HULK of all people. And if that doesn't make you interested in the character, then perhaps this plentiful week of thought balloon entries from our esteemed writers will psyche you up.

Read about Araña over at:
Wikipedia
Marvel Universe
Marvel Wikia

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