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

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

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

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

evil scrolls.

I'm talking about Spider Woman.

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

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

movie.

Spider Woman now stars in a new Marvel series.

It's their first title character to be pregnant.

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

Yes, the best last name ever.

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

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

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

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

Dennis is relatively new to Marvel.

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

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

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

The original origin story is sort of weird and complicated.

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