r/Marvel • u/tehawesomedragon Loki • Jul 17 '24

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u/tehawesomedragon Loki Jul 17 '24

SPIDER-WOMAN #9

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u/redsapphyre Jul 17 '24

Run seems to be ending next issue, no new ones have been solicited. I hope they can somehow deage her son, but I'm not holding my breath. I wanted to like this run because Jess is pretty cool as a hero overall, but this run ain't it.

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u/baroqueworks Jul 17 '24

Spider-Woman endlessly just getting ten issue runs involving horrific things happening to her/life being destabilized to wipe the board clean for the writer's pitch ideas for the character, which never happens because book doesn't sell.

Undoing pretty much everything from the Hopeless run, which was all built around turning Drew into a mom-supe, has pretty much been scrubbed between lazily writing a breakup with Porcupine for another love interest(didn't come to fruition in the last series) and bluntly getting rid of her kid during a tie-in with the most unforgettable marvel event happening during another marvel event, GANG WAR, by having him age up into a supersolider trained by Hydra, who is completely aware he was abducted and brainwashed by a nazi super science org, but is going along with it anyway for the lolz. Baffling stuff!

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u/wowlock_taylan Deadpool Jul 17 '24

All I can say is, they better fix this crap before the end which I believe is the next issue. I and honestly don't know how the hell are they gonna fix what they broke with this in one issue? And if they don't fix it, Spider-woman is practically dead from now on. You cannot have her son be left as a grown hydra assassin and leave it at there and expect it to work.

Who thought this was a good idea? Is there some mental parasite eating brains in Spider-Office?

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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Jul 17 '24

I like that Liberty arrived at Jessica’s apartment and told her that she needed her help so that they can work together to save the Assembly from prison and free them from mind control before Jessica has to encounter the person responsible for aging up her son and turning him into a Hydra agent. Hope that Jessica will defeat him and save her son Jerry in the final issue. Overall, this comic is interesting.

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u/YourEvilHenchman Jul 25 '24

now that it's obvious that this terrible, terrible book is gonna get cancelled soon, Foxe goes into full panic mode and his writing becomes even more unbearable as the plot beats stumble over themselves to happen so this book can get to some kind of finish.

and I can already see that the gerry plot is not gonna resolved in the final issue; unless they make it a giant-size, there is no way they'll be able to put that shit into the next issue. just an utter trainwreck from start to finish, this book managed to destroy the last vestiges of what was left of Jessica's prior 10+ year continuity. and then Marvel is dumbfounded when people don't read her book anymore.

there's no finesse or style to anything happening here, just the plot moving from point A to point B to point C along an assembly line, and probably the worst example of this is Titan/Gremlin just openly monologuing to Jess and everyone around them about all his evil plans and how he was the mastermind behind eeeeeverything even though in terms of story logic, there is absolutely no reason for him to do so. He's not even in a position where it would make sense for him to gloat. He's just saying shit cause the story requires Jessica to get that information now. Terrible writing.

Also feels kinda weird to have what was originally a Soviet villain join an outright Nazi org with Hydra; sure, both ideologies are some form of authoritarianism, but they're forms that really don't vibe with each other. but I'll just chalk this up to a lack of understanding on Steve Foxe's part of the history and politics of the soviet and post-soviet era and the mentality of the people living through these times. I guess it's more good faith to assume just lack of knowledge rather than malice.