introducing Jack Justice, aka the one and only Spiderman! (spiderverse folks tend to call him Jumping Spider or Jumping Jack, to his incredible frustration)
he was bit by a radioactive jumping spider, so (on top of the normal spiderman powers) he jumps/parkours around instead of webswinging
[Image ID: A two-panel comic of a woman with graying hair, facing away from the viewer talking to Spiderman-2099 (aka. Miguel O'Hara) from Across The SpiderVerse. They are standing on the rooftops of New York's many industrial buildings.
Comic panel one shows Miguel covered in the purple-and-black checkered placeholder texture from Javascript.
The woman asks him "Why do you look like that?" to which he replies "Excuse me?" in a bemused tone. She says
"I don't think your suit is working. Got something more.. 'graphics-friendly'?", pointing at his malfunctioning suit.
He proceeds to ask his holographic agent LYLA:
"For shock's sake- Lyla, do you have any period-appropriate renders?" to which she replies "Hm... I may have a few!"
Comic panel two is a GIF format, showing Lyla snapping her fingers, changing Miguel's outfit with a bright orange flash of light, showing different versions of him in Roblox, Poptropica, Minecraft, an emo from 2000s MySpace, and his old 1992 suit in a backward-compatible design that the grey-haired woman could see. She is frowning, unamused with how she can only see him in the styles of old internet games and subcultures. /.End ID]
their universe is 1990s san francisco. by day they work as a struggling writer for the bugle, sort of following in the footsteps of (movie-adjacent) eddie brock; by night they’re spider-scrawl, fighting systemic injustice, writers’ block, and the occasional mad scientist invention. his world is less rife with supernatural evils than most, but he’s also fucking with the government and corporations and all, so it balances out
their unique thing is that they have, like, shitty meta clairvoyance in the form of inherently understanding tropes, clichés, story structure, etc. like if cinemasins/wins were a superhero. they were approached to join the society because miguel thought they’d be chill or even helpful with canon events—unfortunately scribble here is not whatsoever into following rigid plot structure for the sake of unnecessary thematic suffering, saw the plot twist a miles away, and peaced. but not before snagging a day pass so they could watch atsv in person
they never take off their mask, and no one knows their name—he says it’s because he doesn’t want to lose his identity in a sea of spider-people, leading most to theorize that san-fran-spidey is some flavor of peter parker, but who’s to say for sure? the doylist reason, which he is in fact aware of, is that i don’t know either lol