Spider-Gwen #1 Review

writer: Jason Latour / artist: Robbi Rodriguez / Marvel Comics In the aftermath of the Spider-Verse no title was as highly anticipated as Spider-Gwen, completing one of nerddom’s rather unexpected comebacks. Really, Gwen Stacy was practically erased from the memory of most readers for a long time, and was literally dead in the books, killed off long ago and replaced with Mary Jane Watson as the love of Peter Parker’s life. Then Amazing Spider-Man happened, and Emma Stone, and the Spider-Verse, and the dopest costume design you’ve seen in years, and now you find yourself in 2015 trying to buy a fitted red and white spider-hoodie. This is the stuff that makes me love nerddom. Change can be good, and change can be fun. Welcome to Earth 65.

In an alternate universe from where we are in Earth 616, Gwen Stacy never died – Gwen was actually the one bitten by a radioactive spider, turning her into the Spider-Woman of her dimension. What happened to Peter Parker? Well he turned into the Hobgoblin, but that’s another story. After Marvel’s multiverse event introduced over a dozen different spider-iterations from across the dimensions, the streets were talking and Marvel delivered with writer Jason Latour and artist Robbi Rodriguez. Of the various spinoffs from the Spider-Verse crossovers (check out Silk #1, for example), this looks the best. From Gwen’s brief run-ins with her arch-nemesis “the bodega bandit,” who hilariously robs convenience stores with the grab-and-run method, to real…