Yeezus, can we get mention spiders some more in this title, please??? Spider-Man: Spider-Verse – Spider-Gwen is a taster spider-collection of the spider-character for new spider-readers who liked the recent Spider-Verse spider-movie, so everything spider-here has been spider-printed before in previous spider-collections. I haven’t read any Spider-Gwen before though so it was all spider-new to me. And my spider-instincts to avoid it the first spider-time around were right – it’s nay very good!
Set in an alternate dimension, this is basically just gender-swapped Spidey with a dash of Josie and the Pussycats (Gwen’s in a band). The well-known beats are all here: like the original Peter Parker, Gwen struggles to hold down a crappy job while juggling superheroing; she fights the Lizard, Mysterio – so she gets the same rogues gallery but with slightly different people in the roles; loved ones tragically pass, with great power, etc. – uh huh, seen it all before.
I guess it’s amusing to see familiar characters in new roles – Matt Murdock is an evil mob lawyer, Peter’s The Lizard – and Robbi Rodriguez’s art is cool and appealing. And Gwen herself isn’t that bad a character either. But Jason Latour’s stories are just so forgettable and unremarkable that the comics are hardly worth reading.
SPIDERSPIDERSPIDER!
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