Spider-Woman #3 Review

writer: Dennis Hopeless / artist: Greg Land / Marvel Comics And just like that, Spider-Woman has gone back to being a pawn in the Spider-Verse. A pretty weak pawn, at that; this is the pawn that trapped your bishop in a corner and is blocked by another piece so you hope it just dies. I had hope towards the end of issue 2, but Spider-Woman #3 scoffed at my optimism by being pure landfill. I could hardly follow what happened in this issue, whether due to lack of prior Spider-Verse knowledge or difficult-to-follow storytelling. There were at least 3 times I reread a page after asking myself what just happened, and not in the good, intentionally shocking way. Instead of enjoying the story I just kept being bugged by everything I didn’t understand, and that naturally spiraled into nit-picking what might’ve picked up the slack: dialogue, humor, and action scenes. When it comes to humor and dialogue, I’m just not much a fan of Hopeless’ style. Every character’s voice feels forced, with punch lines being obvious and overplayed. The same applies to the action scenes. I figure the sucker-punch is supposed to be a humorous theme – or at least I hope that was the intention – but they’re too cheap to be funny and too dull to be action. Not funny the first time, and a little gross.[divider type=”space_thin”]Not funny the second time.[divider type=”space_thin”]To summarize this issue, Jessica continues to impersonate herself in another dimension, she makes a few bad jokes before she’s obvio…