who created peni parker

Peni Parker was created by writer-musician Gerard Way and artist Jake Wyatt. She first appeared in the 2014 comic book series Edge of Spider-Verse. Peni is a Japanese American high school student who pilots a mech suit called SP//dr, with a psychic link to a radioactive spider. The character and her story were significantly inspired by the 1995 anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.