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The Longest Shortest Time

Kicking Ass While Pregnant

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Health & Fitness, Parenting

4.74.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

When Marvel asked Dennis Hopeless to create a new story for Spider-Woman, he knew he wanted her to be pregnant. In this episode, he explains why. And we hear from his wife Jessie, the real-life superhero behind Spider-Woman.  … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the longest shortest time I'm Hillary Frank.

0:09.3

Today on the show we've got the story of an incredible mom, a woman with an insanely

0:14.0

demanding job, and no partner, a woman who powers through childbirth under extreme emergency

0:20.6

circumstances, really the most extreme you can imagine, all while saving the world from

0:26.6

evil scrolls.

0:28.6

I'm talking about Spider Woman.

0:30.8

She's a Marvel superhero best known recently for her role in the Avengers comics.

0:35.5

Yep, that's the Avengers theme playing right now, though her character was not in the

0:39.5

movie.

0:40.9

Spider Woman now stars in a new Marvel series.

0:43.4

It's their first title character to be pregnant.

0:58.5

The guy who writes this new Spider Woman series, his name's Dennis Hopeless.

1:02.8

Yes, the best last name ever.

1:05.6

It's not the name he was born with, though.

1:07.2

He and his wife both started going by Hopeless when they got married.

1:10.6

Because we were 23 and wanted rock star last name to instead of her taking my boring

1:17.2

name or me taking her boring name, we'd come up with a new one.

1:20.2

Dennis is relatively new to Marvel.

1:22.2

He's been writing comics for them for the last few years.

1:25.1

Lately, he's been on the X-Men series and Spider Woman.

1:28.6

But Spider Woman herself has been part of the Marvel universe for four decades.

1:33.5

The original origin story is sort of weird and complicated.

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