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gigireadswithkiki's review
3.5
• low bar but rly appreciated that this wasn’t hella fan service-y
• S I L K
• interesting plot, multiverse shit is confusing tho :/
• love Jessica Drew though
• S I L K
• interesting plot, multiverse shit is confusing tho :/
• love Jessica Drew though
imamandajulius's review
3.0
Not bad, but not amazing. Hopefully the end of Spider-Verse will really let Jess shine in the next arc.
emilycc's review
3.0
This was fun - super snarky tone, Spider-Woman is a self-identified feminist, there are multiverse pirates - but suffers from what must be a crossover storyline. The war that's the main thrust of the first few issues is completely resolved off page. The art is very fine. I'll keep reading because she's pregnant in the next story arc and I'm intrigued by a pregnant superhero.
melbsreads's review
2.0
Okay, here's the thing: I only picked this up because I saw that it was Marvel Now. And usually, the first volume of any Marvel Now comic is intended as a fresh start, somewhere for newbies to jump into a series and not have to worry about decades of backstory.
And yet this? Was the opposite of a typical Marvel Now volume 1. Jessica bounces through multiple universes. There's a lot of backstory that isn't explained anywhere. There are multiple Jessicas, multiple Peters. Silk and Spider-Gwen feature repeatedly, but with only passing comments about who they actually are. Carol Danvers turns up at the end, which was a breath of fresh air, but it also features Old Man Steve Rogers with no mention of how or why he's suddenly old, and basically? AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH THIS WAS NOT A GOOD INTRODUCTION TO ANYTHING.
The art was...fine? You know, if you can get past the fact that every single female character looks the same and was drawn in a very sexualised way. The way female characters were standing seemed really...odd??...a lot of the time, and other reviews are telling me that the artist is a great one for taking shots of models or stills from pornos, tracing them, and inserting them into comics. That certainly explains a hell of a lot about the weird poses and the porny facial expressions that the female characters often have.
The thing I enjoyed most about this? The original appearance of Spider-Woman from the 1970s. Despite the terrible, dated art, that story made a hell of a lot more sense to me than anything in the Marvel Now story, which was basically a big ol' hot mess of confusion unless you're an ongoing fan of the Spider-verse.
And yet this? Was the opposite of a typical Marvel Now volume 1. Jessica bounces through multiple universes. There's a lot of backstory that isn't explained anywhere. There are multiple Jessicas, multiple Peters. Silk and Spider-Gwen feature repeatedly, but with only passing comments about who they actually are. Carol Danvers turns up at the end, which was a breath of fresh air, but it also features Old Man Steve Rogers with no mention of how or why he's suddenly old, and basically? AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH THIS WAS NOT A GOOD INTRODUCTION TO ANYTHING.
The art was...fine? You know, if you can get past the fact that every single female character looks the same and was drawn in a very sexualised way. The way female characters were standing seemed really...odd??...a lot of the time, and other reviews are telling me that the artist is a great one for taking shots of models or stills from pornos, tracing them, and inserting them into comics. That certainly explains a hell of a lot about the weird poses and the porny facial expressions that the female characters often have.
The thing I enjoyed most about this? The original appearance of Spider-Woman from the 1970s. Despite the terrible, dated art, that story made a hell of a lot more sense to me than anything in the Marvel Now story, which was basically a big ol' hot mess of confusion unless you're an ongoing fan of the Spider-verse.
sushita's review
3.0
mehhhhhhh, i really <3 jessica drew in the captain marvel books so i thought i'd check this out. i've read issue #5 tho, so i know it gets better.
just_fighting_censorship's review
3.0
Unfortunately this volume feels a bit disjointed as it is part of the Spider-verse event and there are a lot of things happening in other titles, namely Amazing Spider-man, that give context to the happenings of this volume. So if you have not read Amazing Spider-man you will be a bit confused as to how everything is very suddenly resolved.
After the Spider-verse event is finished we get a short "story" involving Old Man Cap and Captain Marvel which I guess is setting up the series, allowing Jessica Drew to have her own story and adventures separate from the Avengers.
The final issue is Marvel Spotlight #32 aka the first appearance of Spider-Woman which is nice to include for those readers who are new to Spider-woman but I've read it several times over and would have preferred a new intro to the character's origin, especially since Spider-Woman #1 has a slightly different, in my opinion better, origin story.
After the Spider-verse event is finished we get a short "story" involving Old Man Cap and Captain Marvel which I guess is setting up the series, allowing Jessica Drew to have her own story and adventures separate from the Avengers.
The final issue is Marvel Spotlight #32 aka the first appearance of Spider-Woman which is nice to include for those readers who are new to Spider-woman but I've read it several times over and would have preferred a new intro to the character's origin, especially since Spider-Woman #1 has a slightly different, in my opinion better, origin story.
mallorychristine's review
3.0
I read this because a friend insisted that I needed to give a standalone Spider-Woman comic a shot before giving a final decision on whether or not I like Jessica Drew. I now have, and I still don't like her.
I'm also not sure why the penciler and inker decided to make Cindy Woo... not Asian? she doesn't look particularly different face-structure-wise than Jessica for most of the comic. It made the few times they remembered that much more confusing.
I'm also not sure why the penciler and inker decided to make Cindy Woo... not Asian? she doesn't look particularly different face-structure-wise than Jessica for most of the comic. It made the few times they remembered that much more confusing.
serenarae's review
3.0
I like the characters and the writing and art was good but I wish it was more it's own story instead of a crossover. It was kinda hard to follow, good thing I knew the general idea of the Spiderverse series.