Review: Spider-Woman #3
Twitter has been awash with some big news over the last week or so. No, not the DC deconstruction; I am talking about Spider-Woman hitting a dinosaur! Is this really what the height of comic-dom has come to? Still at least she hits a dinosaur so the cover is accurate.
Fresh from being deceived by Michael Marchand twice, Jess is still relying on him to come up for the cure to the poison he gave her! This is the guy who can’t seem to hire reliable staff and forget to fill up his jet! I mean, how many levels of stupid are actually on show in this book? Throw in some dialogue about kids being sweet (not that Jess would know that about her own), before the clunkiest and contrived reveals.
Karla Pacheco needs to remember that there are load of Spider-Woman fans that want to see their heroine get a decent run for a change. This is a hard ask when there is no rhyme or reason to proceedings. I am not sure what the point of this book is at the moment. I am desperate to give it a chance; after all it took a while for the current Captain Marvel book to hit it’s stride and that was with it’s long-term writer Kelly Thompson in place. Is this book supposed to be fun, off the wall (no pun intended) or have some impacts? It’s worrying that Jessica is written better in Captain Marvel than in her own book! Still, at least we have a page of Roger and Gerry, even if Jessica can’t “remember what she said’ to her love and child, AKA couldn’t Pacheco be bothered to think of something? This then is how little the current family of Jess is respected.
Pere Pérez supplies the art in a way that lacks perspective at times. There seems to be an idea that Jess’s whole body has to be in the panel. Couple that with the sheer number of panels on some pages and you get a book that is as cluttered as the script is clunky. There are some some saving graces; the art for Rebecca works as does the Roger and Gerry page. But these are few and far between. Colors are supplied by Frank D’Armata who is probably the star of the book, doing well with the different locations in the book with the lab and the pseudo Savage Land. Finally, letters are provided by VC’s Travis Lanham, so you know that the letters are in good hands.
I really don’t know what is going on with this character. With so many changes coming down the line for the comic industry, the way that the schedules have been screwed, I am not sure how many issues are in this run. I hope that Pacheco proves me wrong, but in the fluid nature of the comic book industry, if the better Spider-Woman book (the Dennis “Hopeless” Hallum run), can get cancelled, so can this cacophony of contrivance.
Writing – 2.5 Stars
Art – 3 Stars
Colors – 4 Stars
Overall – 3 Stars
Written by; Karla Pacheco
Art by; Pere Pérez
Colors by; Frank D’Armata
Letters by; VC’s Travis Lanham
Published by; Marvel WorldwideÂ
Author Profile
- I am a long time comic book fan, being first introduced to Batman in the mid to late 70's. This led to a appreciation of classic artists like Neal Adams and Jim Aparo. Moving through the decades that followed, I have a working knowledge of a huge raft of characters with a fondness for old school characters like JSA and The Shadow
Currently reading a slew of Bat Books, enjoying a mini Marvel revival, and the host of The Definative Crusade and Outside the Panels whilst also appearing on No-Prize Podcast on the Undercover Capes Podcast Network
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