Review – Spider-Woman: New Duds

Posted June 13, 2016 by Nicky in Reviews / 2 Comments

Cover of Spider-woman: New DudsSpider-Woman: New Duds, Dennis Hopeless, Javier Rodriguez

I liked the redesign for Jessica Drew in this volume, and I do prefer Rodriguez’ art to Greg Land’s (even though I don’t quite get the antipathy some people had towards it). This volume feels a lot more fun than the first one, in line with Jessica’s decision to get away from the Avengers and be an ordinary person (ish) for a while. Ben Urich also has a key role, which is fun too. Unfortunately, it feels somewhat truncated because just as the first volume took Jessica Drew out of one Marvel event (Spider-verse), the last part of this volume pulls her off her detective agency job and back into the Avengers for Secret Wars. Yay.

I don’t know what Marvel thinks they’re doing, constantly crippling the solo comics with these ensemble events that a lot of people don’t even like. It’s alright when they’re a novelty, but when one TPB is bookended by two big universe-wide events, ugh, it’s far too much. Jessica Drew’s little detective story is fun enough but very light, and one could wish we get to see a bit more of her. It’s an interesting plotline, though perhaps somewhat predictable — or I dunno, I felt like I’d read something like it before, anyway.

Still not groundbreaking, but Jessica is still awesome.

Rating: 3/5

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2 responses to “Review – Spider-Woman: New Duds

  1. majoline

    Theoretically all of these solo books sound and look great, and like this one is a lot of fun, but *sighs* these events are kind of terrible.

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