Poll: Is Spider-Gwen good?

[happyninja42]

So, I liked the Miles Morales Spiderman origin arc, liked it a lot.

I didn't like the FemThor arc, wanted to, but then I read it, and just couldn't get past the terrible writing.

I'm vaguely intrigued by Spider-Gwen, but would like a totally scientific and unbiased *sarcastic a bit* opinion from the nerdly masses as to whether I should bother with the series.

So did you read it? If so, did you like it? Was it great, just ok? Started off good but fizzled out? Kept harping over and over about plot lines that boil down to "But your a girl!" "Girls can do things too!" cliche crap like FemThor did?

So, to give you at least some idea of my tastes, "Liked Miles Morales, didn't like FemThor", what do you think? Will I like it?

I will say I am biased to "legacy" stories, passing on the torch to a new person, which is why I liked the Morales story. But, even that love didn't save FemThor for me. I know Spider-Gwen isn't a legacy story, and more a "what if".

 

[The Enquirer]

I haven't read it, however my friend who has read just about every Spider-Man comic out there is still trying to figure out why Spider-Gwen is a thing. In short, he doesn't like it much.

 

[Redd the Sock]

It's alright. The writing is decent without the heavy handedness of Thor, and it seems to flow well. It's downside is that like most alternate universes of its kind it relies a bit heavily on showing the alternate versions of characters rather than the quality of the stories themselves. It's early so I can't fault it for not grabbing me yet, but there's nothing too bad about it.

 

[Reed Spacer]

They should bring back What if...?

That was a fun comic series.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

It's interesting. It doesnt exactly grab me as much as other Spider-related comics, but it's an okay read. Though I wish there was a but more action, which seems to have been sacrificed for this artsy fartsy art style. I mean it's good, but when it gets a bit much you feel like you should be smoking something while reading the comic.

 

[WolfThomas]

There's none of that "But you're a girl". Because she is from another universe with no Spider-Man. One where Gwen was bitten by a radioactive spider not Peter Parker and became Spider-Woman (Spider-Gwen is only the title, her in book name isn't so silly). And other things like Frank Castle is cop whose family are alive.

It's a fairly okay book with a decent costume design and idea for a character. But it doesn't interact a lot with the main universe so stuff is kind of just treading water.

It's an Else-worlds comic by Marvel, and I quite enjoyed the summery video I watched on Youtube.

Sort of, unlike a DC elseworld though (or until recently) she's interacted with the broader marvel universe in both Spiderverse and Secret Wars and is a member of the Web-Warriors with other Spidermen characters, like Spider-Ham (yes Spider-Ham).

 

[happyninja42]

I'm encouraged to hear they don't harp on the "But you're a girl" angle of the storytelling. Hopefully I'll enjoy the story.

 

[Lightknight]

I'm encouraged to hear they don't harp on the "But you're a girl" angle of the storytelling. Hopefully I'll enjoy the story.

I don't think that line of thinking has been used for decades. Not in the Marvel Universe anyways when they had female characters that could consume suns and lay waste to galaxies. I think DC is beyond that too but I'm not sure how long ago it was when Wonder Woman was the JLA secretary and such.

I think the nature of magical powers makes the person already superhuman anyways so the logic of "but you're a girl" can't really play out in more than a handful of scenes.

 

[happyninja42]

I'm encouraged to hear they don't harp on the "But you're a girl" angle of the storytelling. Hopefully I'll enjoy the story.

I don't think that line of thinking has been used for decades. Not in the Marvel Universe anyways when they had female characters that could consume suns and lay waste to galaxies. I think DC is beyond that too but I'm not sure how long ago it was when Wonder Woman was the JLA secretary and such.

I think the nature of magical powers makes the person already superhuman anyways so the logic of "but you're a girl" can't really play out in more than a handful of scenes.

Actually it was, most recently with the FemThor comic. They took every opportunity to point out her gender, and mock it/marvel that she was doing stuff. To the point that I stopped reading it because of the level of it in the story.