It is all the story from the Spider-verse story so if you aren't familiar it will be confusing. But the writing is good and the art fantastic so worth a look, But I'd recommend reading it all within the collected Spider-verse story.

Not sure why they decided it would be a good idea to start up a title with the Spider-verse crossover event. Hello? Maybe we could just focus on Jessica for the first volume, you know? Despite the fact that this one was a bit all over the place, & would probably confuse the hell out of anyone who wasn't following the Spiderverse stuff, I still enjoyed it. Jessica comes off as a capable heroine who's fully in charge of her abilities, and she's a badass super-spy to boot.Ok, Jessica starts off pro...

Jessica Drew is awesome, but unfortunately this isn’t. I’m trying to soldier through, but this Spider-Verse stuff is turning out to be massively confusing, as with most crossover events. Stories #1-3 were kind of a multiverse-hopping mindfuck to me, but the second half of #4 improved. That was when Jess’s best friend Carol Danvers showed up and there was some entertaining banter. (Would I love to see a solid Spider-Woman/Captain Marvel team-up? Hell yes.) I liked that the ending seemed like it w...

Despite being a Spider-Woman fan and wishing she got a decent series (or even a movie), I could not bring myself to give this book more than 3 stars. The main story had moments of fun but was rather silly, and frankly, the idea of a "Spider-Verse" with alternate versions of Spider-Man and various other Spider-heroes all being chased around by a family of immortals who "eat" them to drain their power is... No, seriously, a "Spider-Verse"???Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman, infiltrates the "Inheritors"

Though a fun adventure and sometimes humorous adventure, this is a terrible way to launch a new series. This "Volume 1" was a direct tie-in to Spider-Verse. If one has not read or is familiar with that story, then this simply makes no sense. It cannot stand alone. Volume 2 of this run is really the beginning. Also, this is included in the bigger Spider-Verse trade, which is where it is more fitting. Not sure how to recommend this one. Skip?

So confused. I've read what the Spider-Verse event was all about and think it's pretty dumb... Still wanted to read this for the sheer lack of Jessica Drew in this world.

3 stars "Blazes! Spider-Man should sue this dame for violation of super-powers!" - Nick FuryEnjoyable glimpse into the spider-verse war with appearances from Silk and Spider-Gwen. Included as a bonus is the origin of Spider-Woman (called Arachne for most the issue) as an Agent of Hydra in Marvel Spotlight #32.

I like what I've seen of Spider-Woman before, but this was a terrible first volume. It drops you right into the middle of some massive Spider-verse war and proceeds to hop all over the place. Hopefully future volumes are a lot smoother and less of a mess.

this was entertaining but i don’t care about the spider verse story that was up til the middle of issue 4. i hate universe jumping. jessica didn’t even fight her evil pirate self physically, which would have been a little more entertaining than evil jess telling avenger jess to live a little. you could really skip this entire volume and just read volume 2 and understand that jess decided to make some changes to her life at the last 3 pages.but issue 4 was really good and i loved the carol scenes...

Basically, already read the entirety of this volume when I read the Spider-verse omnibus.

I’m not entirely sure I like Jessica Drew all that much. Yeah, she’s trained to be a leader and she’s the female equivalent of Peter and she’s a badass (as far as she acts) but she’s … kinda heartless.Spider-Woman is not my favorite among all the female spiders. *sigh*

Sigh... Y'know, it's bad enough when an ongoing title is derailed by being forced to accommodate yet another editorially mandated crossover, but when a new book begins during one? Tragic.Having said that, I actually enjoyed Spider-Verse... but mainly the parts involving Spider-Man. Spider-Woman's parts just seemed like a three issue advertisement for Silk and Spider-Gwen, which is rubbish and disrespectful to the character whose name is on the cover.The only reason I'm giving this volume three s...

Review is for the individual issues making up this collection.SPOILERSto follow....I have a love/hate relationship with Marvel Comics. Love because Marvel has some truly awesome characters and can tell a damn good story. Hate because almost every one of those stories is part of what I refer to as some Company!Wide!Crossover!Spectacular! or another, and if you’re trying to read something that isn’t a group comic, or follow a small group of solo comics, most of the time what you’re reading isn’t g...

I like the character of Jessica Drew a lot, but I almost didn't read this book at all. I hate Greg Land's art, how he always oversexualizes female characters, and how all of his women look so much alike. Which is especially galling because his male characters have much more variety. I only decided to read this because I wanted to read the Spider-Verse stuff because... Actually I don't remember why I decided to read Spider-Verse. Anyways, I should have stuck with my initial gut reaction on this b...

Imagine if I actually did a half second of research and learned that this is all just a tie-in to the Spider-Verse event. I've read none of that so I didn't know what was going on from the beginning. Even when I kinda understood it, this is all connected to other shit so in the last issue of this volume, the storyline just abruptly drops mid issue before going to other stuff?? Like why though??? It builds up to a final battle that we don't get to see and comics are highkey so dumb for doing this...

Okay, here's the thing: I only picked this up because I saw that it was Marvel Now. And usually, the first volume of any Marvel Now comic is intended as a fresh start, somewhere for newbies to jump into a series and not have to worry about decades of backstory. And yet this? Was the opposite of a typical Marvel Now volume 1. Jessica bounces through multiple universes. There's a lot of backstory that isn't explained anywhere. There are multiple Jessicas, multiple Peters. Silk and Spider-Gwen feat...

Definitely couldn't stand on its own without the Spider-Verse main series, but a fun female focused multi-verse hopping adventure. Looking forward to Jess's "bold new direction"

It might be because I don’t know any of Greg Land’s other work, but I don’t have the problem with his art in this book that other people identify. It sounds like he uses fairly formulaic compositions? But I’m not the greatest at visual-anything anyway, so it probably wouldn’t bother me. To me Jessica looks badass and capable, and uses her skillset well for fighting and spying.The Spider-verse in general… Eh. I like the plethora of female stars that have come out of it, or had a part to play — An...

Like this Jessica Drew interpretation- under fire, she's got her moves and plans together, but doesn't quite have her shit together. Like this dialogue by Dennis Hopeless. He's got funny down well enough to stand with the best Spider-Man writers, and some natural-sounding quips and outbursts from the rest. Don't know how much of the Greg Land "catalogue of stock poses from his swipe file" I'm going to be able to take. Terrible paint-by-numbers, half-the-time-WTF-level-of-inappropriate-or-just si...

1.5 ⭐This was my first Marvel comic, so I probably would've appreciated it more if I actually understood all the back story of the Spider-Verse. But honestly, I feel like I should be able to get into a solo run without knowing intricate plot details of the universe.So, the storyline was just all over the place and I basically had no clue what was going on but also wasn't really invested anyway. Silk and the other spider-people were fun enough Jessica seems like a great character and I'd love to