BlushMallet - Spider-Gwen and Iron Mary Jane

I admit that ever since I started reading the Spider-Gwen comics, I had this idea in my teeth.  The idea of Gwen Stacy and Mary Jane Watson getting together.  Although, it doesn’t quite look like that happened in the comics but hey, a guy can still imagine.  The notion I had was that the police are still trying to catch Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy) and so to try to catch her, a new kind of weapon is made; the Iron Spider, a creation of Stark Industries.  And after a series of events, Tony Stark gives the suit to Mary Jane Watson who is then charged with finding and capturing Spider-Woman.  But things, as they often do in comics, become very complicated when Mary Jane finds out that not only is Gwen the Spider-Woman but her feelings for her have deepened far beyond what she expects. 

So, with that in mind, I contacted @blushmallet and asking for something very classic with this pair.  And who can forget the infamous “Spider kiss” in which one is upside down and the other is standing and they meet in a mid-air kiss.  For this, I decided to have it where the roles are reversed and Mary Jane is the one that’s upside down. 

After that, the classic block of the background came up.  So, I decided to use the background that I used for another Iron Spider pic:  BlushMallet - Iron Mary Jane

After using that, I decided to do something else that is classic in the Spider-man comics; throwing in a Spider-heart.  But I also knew that using the original red with black webbing wouldn’t exactly be appropriate since Peter Parker is nowhere to be seen in this.  So, I used the heart and did a different color scheme with it; first I did the Spider-Gwen colors, white, magenta, black and turquoise.  Then I thought, “why not do one for MJ?”  And so I did one for her as well. 

And what’s more when I was typing all this out I was looking over the heart and then something very profound hit me.  With the heart and with all that’s been going on, I decided to do one more heart style.  I decided to use the LGBTQ+ pride flag and inlay it into the heart.  Because, love is love and one should be allowed to love who they wish. 

I hope all of you enjoy this as much as I did coloring it.  My Thanks to BlushMallet for the marvelous work they did. 

© Gwen Stacy/Spider-Gwen and Mary Jane Watson/Iron Spider - Spider-man and Spider-Gwen - Marvel Comics

BlushMallet - Iron Mary Jane

In the most recent commissions that I made to @blushmallet, I had decided on something a little different.  This time, I decided upon something that I don’t think has gotten enough attention.  For those of you who are comic book fans, you might remember when Mary Jane Watson was offered a job by Tony Stark (Iron Man) to become the new “Iron Spider”.  A title and suit that was once held by Peter Parker during the Civil War event.  I felt that Mary Jane looked so cool and sexy in it that I wanted more art done of her. 

During the discussion with BlushMallet they mentioned an idea of having the robotic arms of the Iron Spider Suit peeling off the suit itself for her in a very suggestive fashion.  I liked the idea and told them to go ahead with it.  After it was done the coloring became the tricky part at the stage of the actual suit because I needed to make it look both metallic as well as fabric.  Hopefully in the way that I did it, the result was achieved. 

The next part was dealing with the background.  I had so many lovely ideas that I decided to do all of them.  The first being a clean background with the New York skyline.  The second being that background with the Spider-heart in the background as well.  The third looking like a comic book cover and finally one with a word bubble using Mary Jane’s signature phrase. 

My thanks once again to @blushmallet for their marvelous work. 

Note:  All character(s) depicted here are 18 years of age or older.

© Mary Jane Watson/Iron Mary Jane - The Amazing Spider-man - Marvel Comics