Edge of Spider-Verse #2
writer- Jason Latour
artist- Robbi Rodriguez
The biggest threat in Spider-Man
history is coming, and it's going to take EVERY SPIDER-MAN EVER to
stop it! Each issue in this miniseries will introduce you to an
amazingly different Spider-Character who will play a role in the
SPIDER-VERSE!
Those are the claims boasted by Marvel
Comics and three issues into the Spider-Man cross-over event, they
haven't been wrong. The story begins in Superior Spider-Man #32 and
swings into the core series
From the very beginning, I liked the
writing. Latour starts off by recapping what took place in the
last issue of Spider-Woman, a comic book that only exists in an
alternate reality where Peter Parker is dead and his lady love, Gwen
Stacey, is the web-slinging superhero. There really is no “last
issue” but it's cool that Jason Latour kicks the book off by giving us some of Gwen's back story.
It's a familiar tale. Spider-Woman is
believed to be a menace. The cops want to bring her in for the
murder of Peter Parker; the mob wants to have her join them; and all
she wants to do is save the day and play the drums in her band, The
Mary Janes. The story is good and the scripting is good. And thanks to Jason Latour's appreciation for an alternate Marvel Universe, we even get to see a familiar “man without fear” as a slimy little
mob lawyer.
As for the art, I think it's great for
this book. There's a nice clean feel to it and I really like Robbi
Rodriguez's use of negative space with Spider-Woman's outfit. The
white costume with red and black detail is just perfect. It's almost
as if we're getting more expression with less detail.
Edge of Spider-Verse #2 has everything
we've come to expect from a Spider-Man book. It has humor, it has
excitement, and it has everyone's favorite web-slinger saving the day
and getting no reward but action.
Check out Gwen Stacey in the one-shot I
wish was a regular series, Edge of Spider-Verse #2.
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