So it official. Here is the last issue of Spider-Girl. I’m guessing you never read the series seeing as the sales figures were so terrible. So was it a hidden gem or was it rightfully canned?

The series so far (check out my previous reviews) has been a mixed bag. Great art and then terrible art. Lots of emotional story-telling and some boring plot decisions. Great issues and average issues. And here we are with a comic that refuses to buck that tradition. The art jumps wildly around, swapping between peniclers. A couple of great pages, followed by a couple of terrible. If anything, the great artwork just serves to remind us of the missed opportunities of this book. What could have been great, ended up being average and lived up to everybodies expectation of mediocrity.

The story finishes off the plot that has been building over the last 8 issues in a satisfactory way, but due to its rushed nature, ends up making the danger and enemies seem less threatening they should. Spider-Girl deserved better. The revenge/conspiracy story that I’ve been following up to now has all been concluded over about 15 pages. It’s just a little too quick. But at least we got a conclusion.

This issue ended up being little more than a build up for a Spider-Island tie-in. Its disappointing and more than a little irritating that good books like this fall by the way-side while more established, shit, comics will continue on forever (I’m naming any particular books). But at least we had 8 issues that at their best were some of my favorite stories being published at the time. And I belive that there are enough interesting characters and potential storylines here that a second volume may one day surface. Lets just hope that next time, people buy it and the creators refuse to let it slip into mediocrity so quickly.

A so-so ending for a great book.

Art 3/5

Story 3/5