So I read (most of) the first run of Spider-Gwen after getting interested in some of the alt-spiders seen in Into the Spider-Verse. And HOLY SHIT was this series mismanaged.
Like, it'd be one thing if it was straight-up BAD. If it was just bad, I wouldn't give a shit. But it's like there are so many goddamn interesting things they start building up, and so you start to get a little invested, and before you know it you're really into what's going on and just as things start to REALLY pick up-
By the time you get back to Earth-65 you've completely lost any investment in what's going on. And this is my experience reading the TRADES. I pity those of you who had to wait a MONTH in-between each of these.
Like there was this time where I think Bendis took over and made them do 3 issues of what was essentially just a Miles Morales X Gwen thing? Yeah, really. Only saw the tail-end of that, but what I saw... wasn't good. I can't imagine how much all these fucking side-stories fucked up the pacing for the people at the time. No wonder most people dropped.
Like, there are a lot of actually interesting things going on in this comic. Like just in the last couple of issues: >The Kingpin of Earth-65 is MATT FUCKING MURDOCK and is an AMAZING villain. >Gwen actually decides to KEEP her symbiote because she reasons it's just trying to help her and feels responsible for essentially force-feeding it negative emotions throughout the entirety of the Gwenom arc >Gwen VOLUNTARILY reveals her secret identity and lets herself be arrested because her experience with Murdock leads her to believe power corrupts absolutely and she wants to be better than that >She turns down an offer to get out of jail early by joining a superhero-team-up thing because she wants to serve her sentence "fair-and-square"
But all of that REALLY COOL stuff is just perforated with all of this nonsense dimension-jumping side-story shit and and it drives me insane. Like there's TWO FUCKING ISSUES where we go off and see Gwen of the 616 universe. Yes. Really. And then we have a little side thing where she shows up again later and reveals all this was dictated by the council of gwens and blahblahblah honestly who gives a shit?
The thing that terrifies me the most is I actually like Ghost Spider #5 and #6 (it's the new run of the comic with an inexplicable rename), because they feel really comfy and like the couple of good issues from the first run. But I can't take a fucking roller-coaster of quality like this again, and I can't tell if it'll actually stick the landing this time.
Anyway, I don't know. I really WANT to like this series, and there's just so much goddamn potential, but that makes it so much worse when it screws me over with the constant dicking around.
Am I an idiot for hoping this new run will be better?
>Am I an idiot for hoping this new run will be better? You already know the answer
Wyatt Flores
They renamed it because spider-gwen was a retarded name, I've read some but can't separate what they did to peter in this AU from the rest of the book. I got annoyed with all of the ooooohhhh look at this character who you know who he is but now does something completely different because we can,but some of it was clever I'll give it that. Is pic related real? I can;t tell if its an edit or not but I can't blame them for wanting to separate her from the spider-woman name, its like every character who took over that name just gets worse and worse sales
If it's real, the only place it could be is issue #4 or #5 (leaning towards latter) because it can't be in the first run (as her identity is known) and I've read 1-3 and 5-6 of the second.
As for the "look for this guy but he does something different" eh, sometimes it fell flat, but I legitimately liked Murdock as the Kingpin. And I barely known anything about daredevil, so I feel pretty confident he stands well on his own.
Well, actually, might be in some crossover or sidestory shit I didn't read. Idk, I'm not the best person to ask.
Lucas Cooper
There's a new crew and writer, so there's hope. New writer doesn't have much of a resume, so could be good or bad. New artist is good though. Think they did some of Ms. Marvel's stuff? Anyway, there's a little hope. Though I'm gonna be dropping this if it looks to even be heading slightly in the old direction.
