Arachna Volume 1: The Adventure Begins Deluxe Hardcover (2nd Printing)

Jennie Janus is a fashion student at the Pratt Institute — quiet, driven, and completely unremarkable to anyone watching. That's exactly how she likes it.

But New York City has a second life after dark, and so does Jennie. When the mask goes on, Arachna takes over — savage, fearless, and running on instincts that Jennie doesn't fully understand and can't entirely control. They share the same body. They don't share the same rules.

Volume 1 throws them both into the deep end. Doc Diabolique is a geneticist, a madman, and a collector of broken things. He has been watching Arachna. He wants her genes. He wants her power. What he gets instead is Kumo — his own henchwoman mutated beyond control, a psychotic mirror image of Arachna with nothing left to lose and no one left to answer to.

Two predators. One city. And a conspiracy underneath it all that's only just beginning to surface.

The standard edition tells the story. This one shows you how it was made.

The Arachna Vol 1 Deluxe Hardcover collects the complete graphic novel alongside the full archive of promotional and variant cover artwork, the Samantha Auch photo shoot that brought Arachna to life before a single page was drawn, and a behind-the-scenes look at how the main characters were designed — from the first rough sketches of Jennie and Arachna's dual identity to the final look of Doc Diabolique and Kumo. You'll also find a complete walkthrough of how a comic goes from raw script to finished page, and the original reader letters from when X53 was just getting started.

This is the complete record of how Vol 1 was made — the creative process, the decisions, the artwork, and the moment this universe began.

Art by Carlos Granda, Written by Martti Kauppinen, Colors by Maksim Strelkov, and Lettering by Hellica.  Shipped in a sturdy Gemini Mailer. 96 Pages.

Mature Audiences

Print Run: 125