For my four year old Gwen is her own character. If the character can hold out for a few years, my daughter will be looking for a solo “Ghost Spider” book. For now her Ghost Spider plushy is her bedtime buddy.
@@rayvenkman2087 indeed which drives me crazy because a lot of people myself included love Spider-girl mayday parker the daughter of Peter parker and Mary jane and the fact that her series actually succeeded and had a 100 issues and is a super popular character proves to me that Joe Q has no idea what heck he's talking and is a complete idiot at least in my opinion.
I haven't cared about any Gwen character or story made in decades, but GBU is always a blast. Heck, you guyz can upload any type of discussion and I'll still joyfully watch. Straight up.
That pregnant pause before Tiff gives her GBU pick, you could feel the fear hit Sal -- "...she's not gonna say Julia's was the good, right?!" Julia did get such a raw deal in general -- a third string legacy character until she became the second Madame Web, again a legacy character but with a degree of agency to her... When the toy comes out of the box, anyway. M2 was another universe born from a successful spider-book, the fact Spider-Girl went on for as long as it did is actually amazing. A testament to faith in the longevity of an ongoing story.
There was an interview last week with one of the head Marvel editors. He basically said the only reason Spider-Girl ended when it did was cause one of his bosses said "We have the trademark on Spider-Girl but are wasting it on an AU? Make a main Spider-Girl and book. Also stop the old one so people don’t get confused.". The editor then basically said "Would be fun to see her back for a bit but I don’t think it will happen due to Spider-Gwen, Silk and Miles covering the teen Spider corner." Funny enough the girl they made Spider-Girl in 616 to cancel MC2 is going back to her pre-Spider-Girl identity and costume this year as part of the "final" Spider-Verse event so now they totally could bring the MC2 one back.
I'm hyped! I also have to compliment the selections since I am not too familiar with Julia Carpenter, I was aware of "Mayday" & who doesn't know Spider-Gwen? That was a rhetorical question I hope
1. Spider-Woman: Rematch With Death Web #1 = 0:43 2. Spider-Girl #1 = 12:43 3. Spider-Gwen #1 = 27:53 Final Verdict = 36:43 My favorite of the three is Spider-Gwen. Spider-Gwen is not only one of my favorite superheroes and one of my top 3 favorite marvel characters, but she is also my favorite spider person!
I love spider-gwen as well. her original series is great but she kind suffers from the same thing that ms marvel does where once the original creative team stepped away, they really haven’t known what to do with her character
Honestly, the only reason I even know about Julia Carpenter is because of that 90's Iron Man cartoon and in it they always tried to make her and Tony a thing. It was such a weird ship ngl.
May day is so great! I could only find a random single issue as a kid and it stuck with me. I absolutely loved the character. And I was blown away when I realized she referred to herself as 'you' too
the only thing i know about the spider gwen artist is he got super pissed when frank cho drew gwen in the manara pose when he was doing all those sketches to troll people
LOL, you guys are too funny...!!! I remember buying the first few issues of May-Day Parker Spider-Girl and quite enjoying it. My older sister who is definitely not a superhero fan loved the book even more than I did and when I ran out of cash and could no longer buy it, she was so disheartened. ☹
Mays’ life gets much worse and darker, and she ultimately gets intrinsically linked to spider verse as well, both of her parents are killed by the inheritors and she ends up living with an Uncle Ben from a universe where he got spider powers, he comes and lives in her universe, and ends up taking care of and raising her and her (as of the issue they are reading) unborn little brother.
Mary Jane survived the fire with Mays boyfriend and Peter was later brought back in their universe by their other spirit totem but never being shown other than a hand out of the ground
Iirc her original creator said that the May who appears in Spider-Verse is a different version from the one he made, so technically the OG May’s story ended with her dating Wes.
If you need anymore good bad and ugly ideas can I suggest 2099, comic runs could be the original 2099 run, the spider-man 2099 run from (2015-2017) and secret wars 2099 (from 2015)
I agree the Julia Carpenter/Spider-woman of the 90s had potential. Unfortunately, it came at a time when Marvel was pumping out books without making quality a priority.
I like the original Spider Girl best, also the first Spider-Woman I encountered was Julia Carpenter so I like her better than Spider Gwen or Jessica Drew.
It would be cool to see a GBU featuring three _awesome_ comics. The one I have in mind is GOOD comic adaptations of movies (specifically _2001: A Space Odyssey_ by Jack Kirby, _Alien_ by Archie Goodwin & Walt Simonson, & _Bram Stoker's Dracula_ by Mike Mignola).
That second person narrative thing from the spider girl comic, the whole 'you are' narration, that was big in a bunch of comics from the 70s, especially from Marvel. Trying to make things more like literature and not just 'kids stuff ' but ends up being pretentious.
Prediction: Spider-Gwen #1 will be the good. Justification: Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez made a genuinely great comic that reads more like an indie book than a modern superhero comic. I tried reading Spider-Girl back in the day, and I liked "Mayday" as a character, but I just couldn't get into that art, so I didn't read it for long.
@@sarsfien8625 That's totally fair, Rodriguez has a very distinct style. But it's a distinct style I enjoy, which is why I followed him to Valiant and collected The Harbinger, and I'm continuing to buy Batgirls because Rodriguez is illustrating this new story arc.
Looking back through Spider-Girl issue one, and I kinda don't like the art. I was thinking Bagley had done that book for some reason, and this other guy's work doesn't hold up quite as well as I expected. Fantastic story though. Spider-Gwen might have a less tight story, but the art is dope. Also, screw the code.
