With a Bang! Spider-Woman #1 Review

Words:Karla Pacheco / Art: Pere Pérez / Colors: Frank D’Armata / Marvel SPIDER-WOMAN IS BACK AND PULLING NO PUNCHES! LORDT, Jessica Drew has been through the mud, muck and all, hasn’t she? I’ve been off and on with keeping up with her, but I do remember that she recently became a mom and pushed a kid into the world, she’s been killed off, she’s worked for Hydra (LOL), and once upon a time she had her own animated series. 2020 is a perfect time to jump back into the fray and get reintroduced to Spider-Woman and the woman who has been a spy, private detective, and superhero. Pérez’s artwork sets the action scenes fluidly from page one: the start of this issue is an attention grabber for sure. A page of Jessica punching baddies to standing around on…birthday yacht party for a sixteen-year-old girl clad in a Captian Marvel costume, surrounded by her peers also dressed as superheroes and comic book characters. (For the love of God and/or anything anyone or thing you consider holy–pay attention to these kids through the pages–they help make up some of the best dialogue this issue, and you can find them in all kinds of hilarious situations) There’s not a lot of downtime this issue and instead, lots of high flying, high energy, high action panels, yet this doesn’t distract from presenting Jess as a woman who thinks best on her feet, in the air, and with explosions happening around her. I’m loving her new costume and even the cliffhanger at the end might be a bit gross–but it lef…