By: Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev
The conclusion? Was anyone else surprised as hell to find that this was the last issue in this series? Seriously, I turned the final page and was shocked that it was over. Any guesses as to who was responsible for killing it? Anyone? It was beanie douche himself, ALEX MALEEV. “Oh, I am getting so sick of drawing this character! I can’t do this anymore! Too much work, not enough time shopping for beanies!” Just when the writing started to get good, it was over. Which brings me to my next point: Brian Michael Bendis is a GRAPHIC NOVEL WRITER. I think that he struggles to make anything worthwhile happen within a single issue, but give him one hundred and fifty pages and he shines like a diamond.
So, basically this ends with Spider-Woman finding a Skrull and fighting it womanfully. She barely survives the encounter but predictably wins when her friends the Avengers show up. But she doesn’t have any friends right? Wrong Jessica Drew, you always had friends. You were just to silly to recognize it. (And she doesn’t even kill the skrull, Wolverine does).
I would recommend this series only to those who love comic book artwork. Because this really was a beautiful piece of art. As far as a piece of writing goes, it was the dumps. Frankly, it is kind of nice that it is over because now I don’t have to feel guilty about buying a comic just because of the art and not because of the writing. Reader beware.
Mirth
