Spider-Woman #2 Review

When in Rome……….

Jessica takes on an espionage mission deep in Inheritor world while Silk continues her cat-and-mouse chase with the ‘Siblings’.

This is a book searching for identity, and while there are severely glaring problems with this issue, it’s a step in the right direction.

Hopeless has issues writing Jessica, but thankfully the overlying plot is interesting. Land can be good when he wants to be but need to be more diverse in facial work.

SPOILERS FOLLOW……….

Jessica reaches Loom World and finds that her doppelganger on that world is well loved and a top-ranking servant of the Inheritors.

What are the odds, she asks herself. Well, Hopeless, what are the odds?

A meeting with a pirate in the guise of her doppelganger helps her make a brief ally on that world.

That world’s Jessica is cruel and capricious, with some heavy handed scenes where she manhandles a child who got to close (thereby destroying the toy he hoped to give her) and then seduces a waiter at the Inheritor house in stealing a bottle of wine for her.

Meanwhile, Silk manages to get the drop on the Siblings and reaches Loom World, where she comes across that world’s Jessica. Before the doppelganger can get word out, Jessica knocks her out.

Giving Silk her dimensional transporter (Cindy broke hers), she disposes of that world’s Jessica by locking her in a box and sending it to the pirate for two days keeping.

Morlun arrives and we learn that not only is Jessica his high-ranking servant, but also his mistress (which she learns the hard way through a full mouth kiss). Silk continues her cat-and-mouse game before coming to a post-apocalyptic world where even the Siblings are vulnerable.

There were several convenient moments in this issue, not least was the premise of a doppelganger high-ranking servant in the Inheritor mansion (and making her so clichéd despicable). And Morlun unable to identify a totem? He even had physical contact with her!

Silk’s story feels like it’s going no where right now and that cliffhanger was a little weird given she herself should be badly affected by the radiation just like the Siblings.

SPOILERS END………………

Through some contrivances spoil the issue, it’s a step in the right direction for this book. Spider-Verse isn’t treating it or Jessica well but Hopeless’ aimless plotting isn’t helping.

There are interesting threads being developed and it’s always a joy to watch a well drawn (through needs work on expressive faces) book.

So, I give it 6.0 out of 10.

+Interesting plot

+Some good visuals

-Too many contrived circumstances

-Inconsistencies with the overlying event

-Heavy handed elements to flesh out a character

-What is Silk exactly doing?