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a new webslinger in town

Peter Parker’s not the only Spider-Man anymore. Marvel Comics announced on June 14 the launch of a new comic book: Spider-Man India, set in Bombay. A press release posted at the Web site of Gotham Comics, a comic book/magazine publisher for India and Singapore, announced the new title.

Spider-Man India interweaves the local customs, culture and mystery of modern India, with an eye to making Spider-Man’s mythology more relevant to this particular audience. Readers of this series will not see the familiar Peter Parker of Queens under the classic Spider-Man mask, but rather a new hero — a young, Indian boy named Pavitr Prabhakar. As Spider-Man, Pavitr leaps around rickshaws and scooters in Indian streets, while swinging from monuments such as the Gateway of India and the Taj Mahal.

Mumbai’s (Bombay’s) first web-swinging superhero will be joined by a reinterpretation of the classic Spider-Man villain, the Green Goblin — reinvented as a Rakshasa, an Indian mythological demon.

This could either be really cool, or go horribly wrong. I wonder if they’re releasing it in only in the South Asia market, or if they’ll have at least a limited release in the U.S. I’m curious to check it out.

(Link found via Fark.)