She took longer to design than I anticipated.Though Cassandra Webb suffered from a lifetime of blindness and many years of neurological deterioration due to myasthenia gravis, she compensated with her profound psychic abilities, establishing herself as a medium. The wires tethering her to her machines are supposed to sort of evoke the 'web' she sits in in the original comics. The spider symbol has become some sort of life support system. A much more grounded take but I tried to fit in a lot of her established visual motifs. They agree, but Kaine had ulterior motives-in their first field training, Kaine escapes out into the unknown. The government then offers the Scarlet Spider and Kaine a choice to work for them as agents. She succeeds in rewiring his brain to be more stable, but only to a point-he's still edgy and paranoid, but now realizes who he truly is. Webb was rescued by the federal agents after the events of the clone saga.įeeling guilty for her role in the clone saga, she offered to help the federal agency with their attempts to fix Kaine's damaged mind. Webb herself was not malevolent, however, and was being forced into service against her will.

She was the means that Osborn and Warren had used to wipe the memories of clones such as the Tarantula and create new personalities. This special connection, as well as her own innate brain power, allowed Webb to communicate and alter the workings of both computers and people she was linked to. In an effort to create a perfect link between human and machine, she had her brain linked to a complex computer network by way of cables utilizing a strange type of extra dimensional energy-a type of antimatter that the Scriers had created through what they called the SHATHRA system.

Named Cassandra Webb, her own erratic brain patterns had made her the target of the Scriers scientists. Among the many horrors that the federal agents discovered in the Scriers cloning headquarters was an old, crippled blind woman being held captive, tethered to a vast array of complex machines and computers.

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