Character History

Spider was the most notorious journalist in the City. With his groundbreaking books he gained a great reputation and a great deal of money. Having nausea because of the filth in the City, his fame and success, Spider resigned to the Mountain, a place solitude and peace. His five year retirement is however came to an end. His editor "whorehopper" Mitchell Royce calls up and tells him to deliver two books immediately as instructed in his contract. With no other chance, Spider makes his come-back.

To write, Spider needs to be in the City, the place where fills him up with the hate that he needs to be productive. To remain in the City, Spider needs to have a job. So he raids Royce's office to ask for one. Royce, now the chief editor of the greatest newspaper in the City, The Word gives him a column.

Spider needs a story. And he has been away for a long time, so he watches TV, to catch the latest developments to find his first story. His first story comes to his feet when he sees his old friend Fred Christ, a former rock-band manager. Fred turned out to be a Transient, and better than that, he turned out to be a Transient leader who threatens the government with a separatist secession. Spider goes to Fred to make an interview to see that separatist movement is nothing but a fiasco and only solid thing in the affair is Fred's lust for Transient women. The movement turns into a riot, which Police Department answers with brutality. However Spider's "live" column creates a public dispute and Police's interfrence is cut short. After the incident Spider is beaten up by the Police because of his column.

Channon Yarrow, a stripper Spider encounters in Angels 8, shows up in Spider's apartment. Inspired by his journalism and determined to turn her journalism education in to something useful, Channon becomes his new assistant. Their relation is, however cut short. After Channon's boyfriend Ziang's decision to become a Foglet, Channon leaves Spider and becomes a nun in Fred Christ's newly formed Church.

Spider battles Yokels, beacause of a misdeed done by his dead ex-wife. During his struggle he also loses an adversary that he is not aware of. A castrated police bulldog, seeking revenge on Jerusalem leaps and falls down to his doom. If these were not enough, Spider also avoids a headless explosive kid who claims to be his son.

Spider gains a new partner Yelena Rossini and reunites with his former assistanr Channon Yarrow, who is sick of Fred Christ's Church.

The next thing for Spider is the election for Presidency. He starts practicing his "old school" journalism to reveal secrets of the candidates campaigns. The Beast, current president and old enemy of Spider runs the campaign with his right-wing methods where Callahan, "The Smiler" puts out a rather mild campaign. Which turns out to be a lie as Spider learns that Smiler puts out an even dirtier political play. Things gets worse as Vita Severn, Smiler's campaign manager gets assassinated and the sympathy votes goes for Callahan, who proves to be lot worse than The Beast. Meanwhile Spider gets more and more popular and turns in to a media celebrity, which he hates. He feels that he needs to be hated and disliked to do what he does best.

Driven by his search for the Truth, and his ambition to revenge Vita's assassination, Spider plays harder than usual to reveal secrets of the Smiler. His ambition causes him to get fired from the Word and lose his fortune. He decides to write in pirate channel, Hole feedsite, to avoid the censor law, prepared by Callahan.

Personality

Spider Jerusalem is obsessed with the Truth, which he refers as the "ultimate weapon". He shows an highly anarchic personality. Defying the rules of society and trying to mock them at every chance. He is also an anti-theist. His distaste for organized religion can be seen on various occasions. Spider also shows signs of a socialist belief. His socialist beliefs can be seen with his reaction to state of Angels 8 and the Cluny State community estate. He is highly anti-social and on many occasions repulses the characters of oppoiste sex. To achieve his goals ve viciously uses violance of any sort. Spider Jerusalem was a chronic smoker and in many instances he is not seen without a cigarette in his mouth

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Weapons and Abilities

Spider owns a great array of firearms and explosives and uses them frequently in the series. His favorite, however, is a bowel distrupter. He is also a very capable fighter. Not showing hints of any martial arts, he mostly uses simple but brutal blows to the groin, to the stomach and to the head. Throughout the series he brings down many opponents, even ones with a better trainning.