CREATOR EXCLUSIVE
Tangled Web
IPC’s greatest heroes unite against the Spider in new miniseries Smash!
WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL
The Spider catches up on his own latest exploits.
AFTER PAYING TRIBUTE TO IPC’S CLASSIC CHARACTERS in his creator-owned series Jack Staff, Paul Grist is bringing together iconic heroes and villains like Janus Stark, Jane Bond, the Steel Claw and the Spider in Rebellion’s new miniseries Smash! “Jack Staff was basically me having a romp through comic history using ‘variations on a theme’ characters at a time when the characters hadn’t been seen in British comics for over 25 years,” he tells Red Alert. “So I figured I was one of the few people who remembered, let alone cared about, these black and white British comic heroes of childhood. I thought it might be difficult to write stories about the ‘real versions’ of the characters, but the truth is the two versions are really quite different, so I never found myself doing something that would have sat better in Jack Staff.”