‘Across the Spider-Verse’ Does Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

A good writer would start this piece off with something personal then seamlessly blend in the review portion for Across the Spider-Verse. A great writer would weave in social commentary and metaphor to show the height of the pedestal Across the Spider-Verse is sitting at. A real writer would be unbiased throughout their review. …We’re going for two of three with this one, guys. I remember in 2018, when I, in New York, and fellow Co-Founder William Evans, who lives in Ohio, were watching Into the Spider-Verse, and we both said to ourselves, “He’s the greatest. Spider-Man is the greatest of all time.” As I sat and watched Across the Spider-Verse, this time, I thought to myself, Miles Morales has transformed and changed what it means to tell a Spider-Man story. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K. Thompson, Across the Spider-Verse brings us back to multiverse, this time with Gwen Stacy (Emma Myers) literally drumming up a storm. Your girl is going through it, and this time, it’s her turn to narrate. We get a reminder of what Gwen has been through as well as the foreshadowing of the choices and hurt that lay ahead. We see that the actions taken from the last movie have caused ramifications across the multiverse still. We see villains popping up in the wrong universe. Which leads to Gwen meeting the folks cleaning up those messes: Spider Woman, Jessica Drew (Issa Rae) and 2099 Spider-Man Miguel O’Hara (Oscar Isaac). Fam, the opening fight these three take…