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SPIDER-WOMAN #7
The startling conclusion to the first story arc begs the question: Can Jessica Drew be an Agent of S.W.O.R.D. and an Avenger? What will the new direction of Jessica’s life cost her? Brought to you by the Eisner award-winning team of Bendis and Maleev.
WRITER: Brian Michael BendisPENCILS: Alex Maleev
COLORED BY: Caleb Salstrom
LETTERED BY: Rich Ginter
COVER BY: Alex Maleev
Price: $3.99
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| odare77 | 03/19/10 | Yes | Read Review |
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So do I consider this the book that killed S.W.O.R.D.? For shame, Bendis. For shame!
Why would you consider it a book that killed SWORD?
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I’m a little bummed this is apparently the final issue. I have to say, it was a pretty book, but it wasn’t all that great in the end. Still, I was hoping Bendis and Maleev would just dump the motion comic and continue a straight comics run on this, similar to their Daredevil run. Still feels like there’s a lot of ground to cover with Jessica Drew, and i feel as though they might have been hampered in storytelling by forcing this into the motion comics world.
The motion comic was a superior project, even to most print comics. Despite the hardcore naysayers on iFanboy.
I’m probably in the minority here but I didn’t particularly care for Maleev’s art. It worked for the motion comic but felt very stiff in print form. In the end, I am not too sad to see this book end.
Damn. Almost three or four years of waiting for a sub par 7 issue mini series that was weak motion comic. Damn
So the book goes on hiatus after this issue, yes?
@theswordisdrawn
I’m pretty sure the hiatus is the book ending completely.
This cover is gorgeous, loved it since the solicits.
@KickAss I agree. I dug the motion comic. I dropped the story when it stopped coming out.
What?
This is the last issue for this series?
Is that what I’m getting from the comments?
I think this will be a valuable lesson in Bendis. Read him in collected trade where you can. His decompressed style often fails in monthly form, but I always love his stories when all put together.
@ScorpionMasada- yes, Bendis confirmed it at a panel at ECCC
such a shame that we don’t even get a none Skrull-related story.
Shit.
I was looking forward to another arc with a different style of artist.
I was all in favor of the motion comic as an experiment.
But I didn’t think it resulted in a great end product.
The motion comic didn’t satisfy, and this print version feels cobbled together from that — to less-than-satisfying results. It’s too bad. I’m all in favor of progress and new experiments in storytelling, but at the same time — we gotta be able to say when the Emperor ain’t wearing any clothes.
Glad some people dug the motion comic, though.
And I do think Maleev’s art here was gorgeous. The storytelling (from writer and artist) just wasn’t up to par.
Crap. And I just got my girlfriend a subscription to this for her birthday last month.
There hasn’t been any cancellation yet a far as I can tell. My guess is any hints to the next arc will be held up until Avengers is relaunched.
Since S.W.O.R.D. is gone I have to wonder, if this book remains, if we will see Jessica taking on HYDRA and such?
Spider-Woman to me will always work best in an espionage setting.
@CaptainSweatpants- http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=25233- about 11 paras down, next to the Marvelman picture. hate to break it to you, but…
I’m really disappointed about this, I was waiting for it to pick up after this Skrull arc. If Maleev really drew as much as Bendis says, I really hope the trade is packed full of extra art and scripts.
I’m excited to see what their new book, Scarlet, is like and I can’t wait to pick it up… in trade.
The final page of the issue is a note from Bendis to the readers explaining why this is the final issue. I think Marvel might have adjusted the solicitation text if they’d Bendis planned to pull the plug, so I would guess it resulted from a change of heart from both Maleev and Bendis in the last couple of months.
well I think what this really shows is that ongoing motion comics are not in the near future. and if all it’s going to do is hold artists in even more of a creative rut than drawing many issues of a book can lead to, than I am not upset by that at all. they need to have fun doing the work so that we can have fun reading it, plain and simple.
oh and not only was this the best issue of the book, it also featured one of the most interesting things about a Skrull invasion possible in the girl thinking her boyfriend was actually Spider-Man. at least a great concept like that actually got some page-time.
I dug on this issue a great deal, which sucks cuz now the series is gone.
My favorite issues were probably #2 and #7.
I love that Bendis does those send of letters to the readers. I always get disapointed when someone’s on a book for like five years and there’s just a ‘the end’ and the next month a new teams just there. I like the idea of pomp and circumstance in comics. That said, this series if anything suffered heavily and clearly from the motion comic
I didn’t know that this series was ending until i read the last page. I wish Benids could have keep going with this series. I could tell that he really likes writing Spider-Women because of how good the series was. I am glad that it ended on a high note.
I gave this 3 stars, but I keep thinking I was too harsh on the comicbook. My biggest problem enjoying the story came from the fact that I had seen the whole thing months ago because I subscribed to the motion comic. By the time this came out I wasn’t interested anymore. In artistic terms, taken on its own merits, this was probably something I would have rated 4 stars, and considered 5. It’s interesting to me how the dual marketing and split distribution utlimately tainted my perception of the comic…
Or to put it simply, the comicbook was more enjoyable for me than the motion comic, but the motion comic being first “spoiled” the comicbook reading experience….
Wow, at least Maleev got as tired of drawing the exact same expression on Jessica Drew panel after panel as I grew tired of seeing it issue after issue. So the motion comic which delayed the actual release of this book is what killed it? That fucking sucks! I salivated over the news that this series was coming, then was bummed that it was delayed over and over again because of the stupid motion comic that I never put any time or money into, and now it’s canceled because the artist (whom I didn’t care for) is tired of drawing the same expression over and over. I just can’t believe it. I enjoyed the writing, but the art was so overrated and messy.
Thanks so much Marvel, Bendis and Maleev. You’ve ruined another potentially good thing. I’m so pissed right now. Could you tell?