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bellebeaumont95's review
adventurous
dark
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Very mixed bag with a wild combination of genres all within the superhero field. Issue #2 will by far, always and forever be my favorite from this run but overall there's some pretty interesting concepts to play with, and it was entertaining.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Murder, and Cannibalism
harrimyers's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
i liked the spider-gwen one a lot
twistingsnake's review
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
They did Peni so dirty in the Spiderverse movie. In-arguably the best concept in the whole book reduced to....whatever that was.
lilradridinghood's review
- Strong character development? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
hdanniel's review
4.0
No sabía de la existencia de Spider-man Noir hasta ahora. El concepto es interesante y el arte está bien logrado. Mary Jane combatió en la Guerra Civil Española (?)
tshepiso's review
3.0
I picked up this story expecting fun original Spider-Man stories and for the most part it delivered. I don’t think Edge of the Spider-Verse is as good as I hoped would be but it did have interesting things to say and do with the Spider-an narrative.
This collection of Spider-Man stories had some gems. I really enjoyed Spider-Gwen’s story by Jason Latour and I'm glad to see she got her own spin off because of this. She was a very interesting character with a lot of narrative potential and I’m likely to pick up her solo series. I did also appreciate a lot of the ideas presented in the stories. The darker edge to the Spider-Man story by Clay Chapman was unexpected and unsettling, the Japanese aesthetics of Dustin Weaver’s issue was like nothing I’ve seen before. I had fun experiences all of the weird alternate universes the authors came up with. I’ve always been fond of ‘What If…’ narratives and Edge of Spider-Verse is an interesting take on the genre.
But original, creative ideas weren’t enough to carry this comic. Most of the stories felt very rushed and underdeveloped. To be fair the writers were given the difficult task of setting up brand new protagonists in unique worlds with conflicts that had be wrapped in a single issue.
I felt disconnected from most of the stories. There wasn’t enough time to create compelling characters. Stories often relied on exposition dumps to get the necessary world building out of the way. There was rarely a satisfying narrative arc to the stories because they had to be tied into the event these comics are a part of.
I felt this particularly in the last issue by Gerard Way. I was fascinated by Penni Parker and the SP//DR but there wasn’t enough time to tell a great story about it. The last few pages also had to act as a tie-in to the Spider-Verse story arc meaning an unsatisfying open ended conclusion. This was how most of the stories in this collection felt to be honest.
I went into Edge of Spider-Verse hoping for the same thrills watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gave me. I didn’t get that, but Is still experienced interesting Spider-Man stories so I’m not too mad at the volume.
This collection of Spider-Man stories had some gems. I really enjoyed Spider-Gwen’s story by Jason Latour and I'm glad to see she got her own spin off because of this. She was a very interesting character with a lot of narrative potential and I’m likely to pick up her solo series. I did also appreciate a lot of the ideas presented in the stories. The darker edge to the Spider-Man story by Clay Chapman was unexpected and unsettling, the Japanese aesthetics of Dustin Weaver’s issue was like nothing I’ve seen before. I had fun experiences all of the weird alternate universes the authors came up with. I’ve always been fond of ‘What If…’ narratives and Edge of Spider-Verse is an interesting take on the genre.
But original, creative ideas weren’t enough to carry this comic. Most of the stories felt very rushed and underdeveloped. To be fair the writers were given the difficult task of setting up brand new protagonists in unique worlds with conflicts that had be wrapped in a single issue.
I felt disconnected from most of the stories. There wasn’t enough time to create compelling characters. Stories often relied on exposition dumps to get the necessary world building out of the way. There was rarely a satisfying narrative arc to the stories because they had to be tied into the event these comics are a part of.
I felt this particularly in the last issue by Gerard Way. I was fascinated by Penni Parker and the SP//DR but there wasn’t enough time to tell a great story about it. The last few pages also had to act as a tie-in to the Spider-Verse story arc meaning an unsatisfying open ended conclusion. This was how most of the stories in this collection felt to be honest.
I went into Edge of Spider-Verse hoping for the same thrills watching Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse gave me. I didn’t get that, but Is still experienced interesting Spider-Man stories so I’m not too mad at the volume.
will_sargent's review
2.0
Small vignettes about alternate spideys. But the powerset is all that connects them, and sometimes not even that.
hisham's review
4.0
A collection of stories of different Spider powered heroes in different universes. This is a prelude to the Spider-verse storyline that I am finally reading.
A great intro to some interesting Spider-variant heroes.
A great intro to some interesting Spider-variant heroes.
legolas's review
3.0
ok i only bought this for gwen but it turns out she only has one issue and also was apparently in spider-woman? so now i have to track that down to have her full story i guess? i think the most interesting of the other issues was the last one with SP//der, but aside from that they were kind of meh- i wasn't super interested.