Warning: contains a preview for Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #3!

A preview for Spider-Gwen's newest series, Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse, exposes one of the biggest flaws in superhero comics. The villain of the series, a pop idol from the end of time called Finale, wants to rewrite history because - using her future sight powers - she found out that the Multiverse only revolves around superheroes, while common people are left in the dirt.

After being bitten by a radioactive spider and seeing her boyfriend Peter Parker die, the Gwen Stacy of Earth-65 decided to use her powers to fight crime and evil as Ghost Spider. Gwen has a powerful connection to the Multiverse, being able to travel between her own reality and that of Earth-616. However, in the distant future, one villain called Finale decided to escape the end of time by rewriting her own timeline, taking the place of a superhero from the past. Gwen got caught in the misfire and found herself split into five versions. Ghost Spider now has to recruit her own version of the Avengers (or Gwen-vengers) in a crazy journey across the Multiverse to try and save her own reality.

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In a preview for Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #3, by Tim Seeley, Jodi Nishijima, Juan Fernandez, and Ariana Maher shared by Marvel Comics, Finale explains the motivations that brought her to put into motion such a complicated and expensive plan. Finale's mother was a common woman, a writer and poet who used her talent to give her daughter what little she could. Finale was born with the power to see all the possible alternative futures, which she used to become rich and famous. However, when her mother died, she realized that in none of the futures she could see was her mother remembered, despite being an artist. On the other hand, there is one constant that the Multiverse always revolves around, something that shows up in every future and every reality: superheroes. Enjoy the preview below:

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While the concept of the multiverse has become incredibly popular in entertainment franchises in recent years, alternate dimensions and possible futures have been central to superhero comics for a long time. What Finale points out is obvious, but very few people stop to think about it. In a multiverse of infinite realities and possibilities, every single one of them revolves around superheroes. The "Marvels," while numerically inferior, overshadow the normal people who actually make up their worlds, even those who should by right be more relevant. It's unfair, and Finale's ambition of escaping the end of time by "reincarnating" herself as a superhero in the past makes sense to a point. However, building her own ambitions at the expense of the "common people" makes Finale no better than the superheroes she hates.

Every time one or more universes are destroyed, reality always restarts itself, and the survivors are the "living memes," aka superheroes. Gwen Stacy will always be remembered, while Finale's mom will always be forgotten. Even worse, fans know the real reason for this is that comic universes are chiefly about superheroes - they really are the cause of normal being living forgotten lives. In light of this, it's hard not to empathize with Finale, even if she is a villain. Superheroes' larger than life personas bend reality to make them the stars and the only people who truly matter, and now Spider-Gwen is paying the price as Finale attempts to hijack that process for herself.

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Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse #3 will be available from June 16.