Publisher: Marvel Comics
Writer: Jason Latour
Artist: Robbi Rodriguez
Colourist: Rico Renzi
Editor: Nick Lowe
Release date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

Spider-Gwen, who has the best new superhero costume in recent memory, does whatever a Spider-Gwen does: she gets up late for work but can’t web-swing across town because her shooters are “boogered up with dry fluid.” Plus she’s fighting with her father. If that sounds like Gwen Stacy is not just the female equivalent of Spider-Man but of Peter Parker as well, you would be right.

In many ways, Spider-Gwen #1 is a throwback to the heady Silver Age days of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s original run on Spider-Man. The scenes are up close and personal, Spider-Gwen talks to herself the whole time and has to overcome her own personal limitations. Gwen even has to face off against one Spidey’s original villains, the Lizard. But in her universe the Lizard was Peter; so we have a mystery.

After a giant lizard eats all the corn dogs from her new employer, Gwen is off to the sewers on a reptile hunt. But when she discovers multiple Lizards and a female Captain America, claiming the mutated men are the property of S.H.I.E.L.D., the mystery deepens further.

Artist Robbi Rodriquez takes a page from Web-Head artist Umberto Ramos and has a similar stylish sensibility.

Spider-Gwen #1 is a fun and a slightly silly diversion, but a tiny bit deeper than a simple web-slinging adventure. Spider-Gwen #1 is done in a way that will please both old-school Spidey fans and new recruits as well.

Reviewer: Joe Lovece
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker