Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears

Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears
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Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
ScheduleMonthly
Publication dateNovember 2015 – March 2017
Number of issues17
Main character(s)Jessica Drew / Spider-Woman
Creative team
Writer(s)Dennis Hopeless
Artist(s)
  • Javier Rodríguez
  • Joëlle Jones
  • Robbi Rodriguez
  • Tigh Walker
  • Veronica Fish

Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears, originally known simply as Spider-Woman, is a 17-issue comic book series written by Dennis Hopeless as the sixth overall volume of Spider-Woman. Published by Marvel Comics, the story revolves around a now-pregnant Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) as she returns to her roots as a private investigator. The series also features a joint crossover series with Spider-Gwen and Silk entitled Spider-Women.

Jessica Drew's pregnancy storyline from Shifting Gears was adapted to the composite character Jess Drew in the 2023 feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and its 2027 sequel Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Publication history

In 2014, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) was a key player in the Spider-Verse event. Spinning out of that event, a new fifth volume of Spider-Woman was started, written by Dennis Hopeless; this series was interrupted by Marvel's 2015 Secret Wars event, and ended with issue #10, before Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears from the same creative team launched several months later with a new issue #1, still written by Hopeless and continues the story from the previous volume, with the narrative change of Jessica now being heavily pregnant (with Gerry Drew, her future son previously created for MC2, appearing in Too Many Spiders). Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy) and Silk (Cindy Moon) were then the protagonists of the Spider-Women crossover event, with Spider-Woman issues #6 and #7 having been the tie-ins to it. Spider-Woman: Shifting Gears was cancelled after 17 issues.

Collected editions

TitleMaterial collectedPublished dateISBN
Shifting Gears Vol. 1: Baby Talk Spider-Woman (vol. 6) #1–5, material from Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 4) #1 June 14, 2016 978-0785196228
Spider-Women Spider-Woman (vol. 6) #6–7, Silk (vol. 2) #7–8, Spider-Gwen (vol. 2) #7–8 July 26, 2016 ISBN 978-1302900939
Shifting Gears Vol. 2: Civil War II Spider-Woman (vol. 6) #8–12 January 10, 2017 ISBN 978-0785196235
Shifting Gears Vol. 3: Scare Tactics Spider-Woman (vol. 6) #13–17 June 13, 2017 ISBN 978-1302903305
Spider-Woman by Dennis Hopeless Spider-Woman (vol. 5) #1–10, Spider-Woman (vol. 6) #1–5, 8–17, material from Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 4) #1 June 6, 2023 ISBN 978-1302950040

In other media

The 2023 feature film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse introduces an "original creation" and "wholesale reinvention of the concept" of the comic book Spider-Woman in the form of Jess Drew (voiced by Issa Rae), a composite character of the Earth-616 Jessica Drew, Valerie the Librarian, and the Earth-1610 Jessica Drew (Peter Parker), having the spider-powers and fingertip-webs of 1610-Jessica from Ultimate Spider-Man, the afro and mask of Valerie from Spidey Super Stories, and the pregnancy of 616-Jessica from Shifting Gears.

References

  1. ↑ Narcisse, Evan (November 11, 2015). "Spider-Woman Is Going on Maternity Leave". Kotaku. Archived from the original on June 20, 2017.
  2. ↑ "EXCLUSIVE: Marvel's "Spider-Women" April 2016 Solicitations and Covers". CBR. January 18, 2016. Archived from the original on May 8, 2017.
  3. ↑ Johnston, Rich (January 26, 2017). "Spider-Woman Stealth Cancelled In March? It's Tough To be A Single Mother Superhero…". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on January 28, 2017.
  4. ↑ Robinson, Joanna (December 14, 2018). "Sony Finally Untangles Its Spider Web". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on January 14, 2019.

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