Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman is tired of dealing with fighting evil on a mega-intergalactic scale (although she’s still up for the occasional throttling of a Skrull) and wants to dial back her life a bit – become just the friendly neighborhood Spider-Woman. She even changes her costume, hence the title of this volume.Her new career gets off to a rocky start, so she ends up working with reporter Ben Urich, who points her in the direction of a story about super villain’s loved ones going missing

This is an incredible improvement over volume one. It helps that volume two doesn't use the artist who must not be named, and I thought that Rodriguez's art was much, much better. I actually enjoyed looking at it, instead of enduring it. And once he was free to do what he liked with the character, I ended up loving the direction that Hopeless was taking the character of Spider-Woman. She's at a point in her life when she wants to quietly be her own superhero, which I get under the circumstances....

Vote: ☆☆☆ 1/2 Not as good as first volume for me, but some gags were really good ones and in the end I was reading Porcupine's balloons with Zach Galifianakis' voice!

If you've read recent DAREDEVIL, HAWKEYE or FOES OF SPIDER-MAN and those other highly acclaimed titles from Marvel, rethink those and add Spider-woman: and you get this book. There's a strong current of shame or duffus-ness about being a super-hero that runs through all these titles Spider-Woman included. It's even remarked upon that her solo efforts (read her solo titles) haven't amounted to much to date. But there's so much charm and pleasing colors and humor and pretty drawings that it's impo...

I've always been a big fan of Jessica Drew and missed her quite a bit when she vanished from the face of the Marvel Universe for several years. Thanks to Brian Michael Bendis, she's been back for a while now, which is great.This latest take on Jess, written by Dennis Hopeless (love his surname), has been a lot of fun. Taking a leave of absence from the Avengers (nobody quits the team, Jess; 'once an Avenger, always an Avenger' remember?) to go back to running a detective agency again, Jess is ba...

I started picking up the Spider-Woman series that started after Secret Wars (also done by Hopeless and Rodriguez), enjoyed it, saw this predecessor volume in the comic book store, and picked it up.The new duds refer to a new costume for Spider-Woman which, thankfully, turns away from the cheesecake with which I had previously associated her. Instead, we get a remake like the Darwyn Cooke Catwoman and the recent Batgirl: sensible clothing for crime fighting that makes Jessica Drew look attractive...

Oh, I had a fun time with this one. I love Jess's snark! I love she has teamed up with Ben Urich and Porcupine! I mean, Porcupine is hilarious in his own right! I loved the first story of how the women and kids all disappeared and the reasoning behind it. That was pretty freaking cool. Well, not the reasoning but the other part! But, Jess, Ben and Porcupine being on the road together was great! I really loved the crazy rodeo idea they stumbled onto. lol I might do a more in-depth review later.

So funny how I rated the first volume one star and this baddie is getting five but I'm sooo changeable.I vibed with this so hard. After Jessica Drew decided to make some life chances like leaving the Avengers and getting a new costume, she is now trying to be a simple neighborhood spider. No more multiverse or otherworldly drama, she wants to help normal people. Unfortunately she's kind of bad at it.Journalist Ben Urich shows up and asks Jess for helping finding a string of missing women. The co...

Spider-Woman gets a soft reboot. New artist, new costume, new focus. Jessica has decided to step away from the Avengers and affect street level crime, which it turns out she's very bad at. In steps Ben Urich, who's looking into a series of kidnappings of D-Level supervillians' families. Jessica captures the Porcupine and forces him to help track down his daughter. What they uncover is a very clever idea. I loved it.For the last two issues, Spider-Woman, Ben, and Porcupine go on a road trip to st...

Jessica Drew may be taking a break from the Avengers to pursue a career as a Private Investigator but her superhero past isn’t taking a break from her! Someone’s blackmailing Z-list supervillains into committing crimes and the unlikely duo of Spider-Woman and Daily Bugle star reporter Ben Urich are on the case. Spider-Woman, Volume 2: New Duds isn’t a bad comic, it just lacks convincing antagonists, solid stories and a point. I know that sounds like a back-handed compliment but, considering the

Tons of fun for fans of Spider-Woman!

I love Spider-Woman!Issue #5 deals with Jessica's decision to leave the Avengers, become a street-level fighter, and (of course!) the costume change. It's also a nice set up for Ben & the Porcupine.<--good stuff! The main storyline is Jess trying to find out what is happening to family members of C-list villains, including Porcupine's daughter. And the conclusion was, I thought, awesome. This sort of story suits me right down to a tee, so even thought the last issue got hijacked by Secret Wars a...

Very fun series. As expected. Spider-Woman is a sexy big booty warrior and this is no different. Before we get to her getting prego after Secret Wars this was a fun little adventure. seeing Jessica Drew go back into street level fighting is a ton of fun. Then you have Ben (From Daredevil) and a villain to join her party and you have plenty of fun times to be had. Good: Cute and charming. Lots of fun things happening here, good humor, and Jessica is a main star worth following. The start of the s...

I love Jessica Drew! She is one of my favourite characters in the Marvel universe, and also my favourite Spider-Person. Even though Marvel stupidly started off this new series with an event tie-in, they event(ha!)ually came back to their senses and just made this a stand-alone series. So, if you just want to read about Jessica without all the convoluted mess that is Spider-Verse, just pick up this volume. It has nothing to do with volume 1, it is a sort of soft reboot for the character. And it i...

Thank goodness that Hopeless managed to finally find his own voice after being saddled with Spider-Verse for his first volume. Everyone said that this was the Batgirling of Spider-Woman, but at its best it's a full Hawkeyeization.In other words, Hopeless' street-level Spider-Woman is funny and witty. It involves real people and it has interesting twists and turns. It depends on its artist and lets him excel. Sure, it's not quite up to the level of Hawkeye, but you can see that's what Hopeless wa...

I've been catching up on post-Secret Wars comics this weekend and been feeling pretty blasé about them. Reading, finding reasons to like them or not, but not really connecting with any of them. Until this book...The art grabs me immediately. Gorgeous, lithe, fluid and almost 60's art style - like something out of Bewitched or that Don Draper show I'll probably watch in my retirement home days.The writing, even better. Dennis Hopeless still haven't attained a permanent place on my radar of comics...

4.5 stars "Your disgusting stink-mouthed hand demon bit me on my face meat!" - Jessica Drew aka Spider-WomanAwesome art. Crazy-good layouts. Have I mentioned I'm a big fan of the highly stylized sound words that blend into the panel?Hopeless nails the story and more importantly the dialogue on this one. I never thought I would say this but I'm actually enjoying Spider-Woman. "Dude marinated the beef in some kind of mind sauce" - Roger Gocking aka The PorcupineWeird. This is exactly my kind...

I liked the redesign for Jessica Drew in this volume, and I do prefer Rodriguez’ art to Greg Land’s (even though I don’t quite get the antipathy some people had towards it). This volume feels a lot more fun than the first one, in line with Jessica’s decision to get away from the Avengers and be an ordinary person (ish) for a while. Ben Urich also has a key role, which is fun too. Unfortunately, it feels somewhat truncated because just as the first volume took Jessica Drew out of one Marvel event...

**** for issues 5-8. I loved this arc and how it wrapped up.We will see where the next arc goes.

After a false start, the recent Spider-Woman series found its footing with its second arc, New Duds.New Duds finds Spider-Woman Jessica Drew ditching the Avengers to get back to her origins as a solo adventurer fighting crime in the streets. She even adopts a practical new costume and moves into a loft in a developing neighborhood. Except Jessica is rusty at dealing with street level issues and manages to embarrass herself several times. Reporter Ben Urich intrigues her with the unexplained disa...