Second installment in a softcover volume of the new stage of SpiderWoman that Karla Pacheco and Pere Perez bring us. Panini comics organizes a trip through space that will soon return us to the New York Bronx to experience the events of Rey de Negro.
In Jessica Drew we trust
These are not good times for SpiderWoman, she is ill and her life is hanging by a fine thread. She needs to find a cure, not just for herself, but also for her niece and her son. All because of the loss of his regenerative powers, something that must be blamed on his brother, Michael Marchand. Although she also survives thanks to a serum of her creation, which makes her emotionally unstable but manages to keep her alive. It is not the best option to start looking for a solution.
That happens to find an important character in his past, nothing more and nothing less than Herbert Wyndham, whom we know better as The High Evolutionary. For this Jessica Drew will embark on a journey through the stars accompanied by her very good friend Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel. Together they make a great team, Jess gets extremely pissed off as Carol tries to put out all the fires without causing a pan-galactic conflict along the way. Something that is not easy when faced with an unleashed SpiderWoman.
More tie-ins from Rey de Negro
The Marvel Universe is historically characterized by being cohesive and seeing the plots of its important events reflected in other collections. King in Black will not affect the SpiderWoman collection beyond providing a setting for the storytelling that takes place in this arc called Blind Rage. Once the brief space journey is finished, we will have Jessica back in New York just as the invasion of the symbiote dragons arrives under the command of Knull.
Under the cloak of darkness that covers the planet, Jessica Drew will continue with the search for the High Evolutionary to find a multitude of surprises that maintain the story level that Karla Pacheco has been offering us since she took over the series. It seems that clothes are not going to hurt when continuing to reel off the past of SpiderWoman, both at a family level and with regard to his own origin, although he has to face it against all his friends and needs new allies of dubious origin.
The high point
The path of a hero is not usually littered with roses, the decisions that are made affect many people, including those who love the most. Karla Pacheco also knows that true friendship is not broken simply by a fist fight or by saying some hurtful things, they are wounds that are solved in front of a coffee speaking from the heart. Many doors remain open after the ten US numbers that make up the two volumes published so far in our country but they can be read as a complete story, with an ending.
Pere Perez’s drawing is wonderful, expressive, detailed, with a level of body expression and facial features that reaches levels rarely seen in the world of comics. His characters are alive, they suffer, they disengage in combat or in the face of harsh revelations. But they also soften themselves and offer their kindest face. A master when it comes to transmitting, no matter what they put in front of him to represent through his drawing, he takes Jessica Drew from madness to repentance and forgiveness as if it were something easy to do but it is only within the reach of a few, among them the great Pere Perez.
SpiderWoman is a series of renewed airs that not only brings excellent rhythm to a fun and influential story, but explores the character’s past, offers us a new dimension of who Jessica Drew is and where she is going. Highly recommended, it does not disappoint, it entertains, it touches and it is an action-packed madness.