Spider-Woman #7 is now available to purchase from Marvel Comics as it was released Wednesday of last week. The previous issue of Spider-Woman had left off with Jessica Drew, the titular superheroine, posed as the low-level villain known as the Porcupine. It is part of an investigation that is being conducted by Ben Urich of the Daily Bugle.
This issue begins with Jessica being taken to an empty subway car and rendered unconscious with a sleeping gas grenade. She wakes up chained inside a dark room, where she is interrogated by the person responsible for kidnapping the families of low-level villains.
Jessica manages to sneak her way into the trunk of the person’s car, which drives to the sleepy and peaceful town of Moon’s Hollow. This is the location where the villains’ families have been taken hostage.
But this isn’t the case as the spouses of the villains were the perpetrators of the plan, which surprised me. It is apparent that the spouses of the villains were finally fed up with their husbands and orchestrated this creative plan.
Jessica has found the answers she was looking for, but things don’t go as planned as Porcupine and Urich are captured. The two men are beaten and chained up in the foyer of Lady Earthmover’s mansion, where it is a throw down between Jessica and Lady Earthmover.
What did I think of Spider-Woman #7?
The story was straightforward and direct, which was good in the case of this story arc.
Rhetorically asking, where is Ashton Kutcher and his Punk’d crew in all of this? I mean the villains are so afraid that something bad has happened to their families, where Jessica has discovered that to be far from the truth.
When I saw the first few pages, I knew something was up.
With the exception of Lady Earthmover, no incredibly powerful villain would waste precious time to go after the families of low-level villains. I will say that Lady Earthmover is not a powerful villain because she depends on some shoddy looking exoskeleton that I believe Jessica can dismantle with some effort.
The revelation of Moon’s Hollow shows that it sucks being the spouse of a low-level villain because it doesn’t pay, but being the spouse of a mid-level to high-level villain is a different story. Kingpin is a high-level villain because he has a vast fortune and underworld connections, which more than compensates for his lack of special powers.
Vanessa Fisk, Kingpin’s first wife, got to enjoy a life of luxury.
When you look at the low-level villains like Porcupine, you have to feel bad for the spouses because they have to put up with that s—t. You can go ahead and say that they should get divorced, but that doesn’t make things better.
If people know that you were married to a villain, then your life is f—ked most of the time.
I thought it was creative thinking on the part of their spouses, where they were able to get away from their husbands with little to no problems. The only snag is that Ben Urich was on their trail and he employed Jessica Drew’s help as a private investigator.
I give Spider-Woman #7 a grade of A+.
