Spider-Woman #4

Alongside the massive Spider-Verse event we were introduced to the new Spider-Woman series! Many fans rejoiced and were met with a tie-in arc that was surprisingly not awful. That tie-in ends with issue #4, and like it's counter-part, Amazing Spider-Man, it's a little lackluster. This issue out of all of the tie-ins felt the most forced. Spending an entire issue semi-recapping what's previously happened and forcing Loom World Jessica Drew to become a world leader seemed a little far-fetched. This being because we're given about 2 total pages of her just assuming control. Why her? She was a servent before. Clearly, she has very little skills in leading a nation. In any way, it just seems ridiculous without the proper time to build it up which was not afforded to writer Dennis Hopeless. Still, while it was unbelievable, this issue still had a lot of fun moments, and ended on a massive positive note with a somewhat surprising twist that will lead readers into the new age of Jessica Drew.

The biggest offense of this issue is Greg Land's art. Obviously, he is talented, but in this issue it doesn't add up. Faces and designs are inconsistent and it honestly looks like he traces a lot of the larger figures in because of the varying degree of quality between larger and smaller figures on the page. The layouts aren't bad, but this has consistently been a problem throughout this tie-in arc. It's enough of a problem to distract and pull me from the book multiple times. I'm looking forward to the new art direction coming with issue #5.

All in all, Spider-Woman has been a surprisingly decent tie-in book so far. Now that time is over and hopefully we can get into the real meat and bones of the character with this new status quo.