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| Released 21/01/15 |
Story By: Dennis Hopeless
Artist: Greg Land
Cover Art: Frank D'Armata
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $3.99
The last we saw of Jessica Drew, she was stranded on the Inheritors Loomworld Earth - 001 and found herself some what reluctantly in the embrace of Morlun. not in the way you would expect either. Following on from where Issue #2 left us with the shock revelation that Loomworld's incarnation of Spider-Woman was the concubine of one of the Inheritors, writer Dennis Hopeless presents us with a more in depth view of the events of Jessica's espionage mission that were briefly touched upon in the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #12.
The issue continues the prose of telling two stories at the same time, whilst the start picks up with Silk, arriving on the destroyed radiated world of Earth - 3145. where she discovers, that the Inheritor twins Brix and Brie, are unable to follow due to the high levels of radiation fallout in the worlds atmosphere. Silk whips up a makeshift "Webmat" suit to protect herself from the elements knowing that the world she's on protects her from the Inheritors. in a reproduction from the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #12.
The storu then snaps back to loomworld to show Morlun and Jessica enjoying a romantic dinner, in which the tension is displayed well via the inner monologue of the spy showing her disgust at having to endure the enemy pawing her.
Jessica, manages to eventually give the Inheritor the slip by feigning illness and rushing to a bathroom.
Once again the issue flips is back to Earth 3145, where we find that Silk after theorizing as such, finds this world security bunker that housed her on Earth 616 way back in Amazing Spider-Man #4. finding that the security code to enter the bunker would appear to be the same on each world she enters the bunker and seals herself inside.
Back on Loomworld we get a brief cameo of a familiar Spidey character who in this instance is posing as the security officer for the inheritors palace. This cameo was a surprise and a welcome one for it was good to see the character again if only for the length of time it took for Jessica Drew to knock them out.
Hiding in the air duct in a bathroom Jessica manages to contact the Spider-Army via the damaged communicator she swapped with Silk, and we get the full encounter of her clandestine meeting with the Master Weaver, as seen in part within Amazing Spider-Man #12. The weaver manages to pass the prophecy scrolls to Jessica who uses the damages communicator to teleport the scrolls to the spider-army.
At this point i found the issue, a bit redundant, as it seems to just be rehashing the relevant parts we'd already been made aware of via other Spider-Verse issues. Whilst filling in the blanks is usually a good thing to see it didn't really provide any further insight into the mission beyond what we already knew.
Later we saw that Jess has managed to evade capturing and fearing that her cover had now been in someway compromised had left the inheritors palace with the intention of hiding out of the pirates ship. Unfortunately, she arrives to find that the Loomworld Jessica had via her pheromone powers overcome the pirate crew.
As they prepared to attack Silk and Spider-Gwen appear via a portal to aid Jessica at the issue's close.
As previously stated this issue felt perfunctory, it served a purpose as to filling gaps between the snippets of the wider narrative that we saw in other books, and as such didn't really give me any thing to get that enthused about. The main problem was i feel, that it has elements that were spoiled by having major aspects in an earlier book. The ending did well enough to tie it the characters to the climatic finale that approaches though.
For the most part I have to say that I'm enjoying the writing by Dennis Hopeless, it just seems at the moment he's limited to the narrative of the wider Spider-Verse storyline, however I've seen enough for me to be interested in where he'll be taking Jessica Drew once the event is over.
One aspect that I've failed to get to grips with is Greg Lands art. I just find it distracting. and at times feels like I'm looking at a photo rather than a well crafted piece of drawn artistry. I'm aware that a change of artist is due to happen once Spider-Woman #5 comes along so maybe that'll help my enjoyment of the boo somewhat.
As for the score I'm going to give this a steady 7.0 and that's mainly for the writing, although the story flowed well, it didn't do that much for me. It's not what I'd regard an essential book for the wider Spider-Verse story. it's no Scarlet Spider's #3
Hiding in the air duct in a bathroom Jessica manages to contact the Spider-Army via the damaged communicator she swapped with Silk, and we get the full encounter of her clandestine meeting with the Master Weaver, as seen in part within Amazing Spider-Man #12. The weaver manages to pass the prophecy scrolls to Jessica who uses the damages communicator to teleport the scrolls to the spider-army.
At this point i found the issue, a bit redundant, as it seems to just be rehashing the relevant parts we'd already been made aware of via other Spider-Verse issues. Whilst filling in the blanks is usually a good thing to see it didn't really provide any further insight into the mission beyond what we already knew.
Later we saw that Jess has managed to evade capturing and fearing that her cover had now been in someway compromised had left the inheritors palace with the intention of hiding out of the pirates ship. Unfortunately, she arrives to find that the Loomworld Jessica had via her pheromone powers overcome the pirate crew.
As they prepared to attack Silk and Spider-Gwen appear via a portal to aid Jessica at the issue's close.
As previously stated this issue felt perfunctory, it served a purpose as to filling gaps between the snippets of the wider narrative that we saw in other books, and as such didn't really give me any thing to get that enthused about. The main problem was i feel, that it has elements that were spoiled by having major aspects in an earlier book. The ending did well enough to tie it the characters to the climatic finale that approaches though.
For the most part I have to say that I'm enjoying the writing by Dennis Hopeless, it just seems at the moment he's limited to the narrative of the wider Spider-Verse storyline, however I've seen enough for me to be interested in where he'll be taking Jessica Drew once the event is over.
One aspect that I've failed to get to grips with is Greg Lands art. I just find it distracting. and at times feels like I'm looking at a photo rather than a well crafted piece of drawn artistry. I'm aware that a change of artist is due to happen once Spider-Woman #5 comes along so maybe that'll help my enjoyment of the boo somewhat.
As for the score I'm going to give this a steady 7.0 and that's mainly for the writing, although the story flowed well, it didn't do that much for me. It's not what I'd regard an essential book for the wider Spider-Verse story. it's no Scarlet Spider's #3
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