The stage that Karla Pacheco and Pere Pérez are carrying out in Spider-Woman with new twists in the relationship with his brother Michael Marchand. Panini Comics also features the arrival of a new arachnid superheroine in these pages.
Do we enjoy seeing suffering in fiction?
If we talked about reality, about what is tangible and experienced in person, about physical pain or the agony of a terminal illness, they would directly treat us as sadists. But when that suffering comes to us through something that we know is not real, that we see through a screen like a film product, the lyrics of a novel or the drawing of a comic, things change… quite a lot. Today it is even praiseworthy to wish for the disappearance of a dictator who submits to his people or of one who starts a war for one reason or another and in the end consents to the devastation and suffering of a mostly innocent civil society.
In a work of fiction we can even wish to be part of it to give his due to that villain on duty who gives our protagonists a hard time, those with whom we align ourselves in the plot, to whom we would not hesitate to lend our support. to help them take the next step, to pick them up and take them home after a long day and injuries that only encourage them to lie on the floor and rest while the medical services arrive or drag themselves to see the Night Nurse, who so many patches has done publicly and privately.
Branding the soul on fire
Karla Pacheco seems determined to leave her mark on Jessica Drew, that these comics become part of the memorable history of SpiderWoman when we review the life of the superheroine. And she does it by leaving scars that hurt, even when she has already healed the injury or the cut from which she bled. Those that remain inside oneself, that return in the form of an unpleasant memory, of the desire for what could have been something nice and was not, precisely because it returns to us as if it were a walk through hell.
That pain usually even comes from those we love the most, to whom we are united by some important bond, be it family or friendship. For Jessica, that damage comes from her brother, one she has not known for a long time but who is still part of her blood, who has provided her with a niece, Rebecca, whom she adores and for whom she would kill if she were. necessary. In the first place because Rebecca Marchand’s feeling for Jessica Drew is reciprocated and secondly because the young woman has her physical limitations and her aunt is going to give everything to help her overcome them.
Pere Pérez continues to improve
It is not national pride, not even having shared a signing session with him in which he drew me a very cool Thor in his sketchbook, it is not fanaticism for his art, it is that Pere Pérez does not stop improving his art and virtuosity and leaves patent in each vignette that gives 200%. His staging is an absolute visual spectacle, he does not stop practicing different styles for each character, practically recognizable by the way they move in the vignettes. He leaves us the best scenes of close combat that can be seen today in a superhero comic, playing with the impacts but what is more important, with the stops to direct blows that would leave the most painted knockout. And on top of that, he leaves us with the creation of a new ally for SpiderWoman that we prefer not to tell you anything about, so that you can discover it for yourself.
The creative freedom that this series enjoys on the part of the writer and cartoonist is palpable, there we have those Twin Swords of Toledo. It usually happens with those heroes that the publisher on duty does not confine within certain limits, so that both Karla and Pere are able to take Jessica Drew to enormous splendor as a result of the possibility of taking the character where they want, without missing its roots but creating a new lore behind it that will inspire those who tomorrow have to take over as a creative team.