Spider-Woman By Steve Foxe Vol. 2: The Assembly

by Steve Foxe

Collects Spider-Woman (2023) #6-10 and material from Web Of Spider-Man (2024) #1.

Spider-Woman starts a new life in San Francisco! Brokenhearted following the shocking revelations about her son's fate, Spider-Woman decides to leave New York for a fresh start - and return to her old stomping grounds on the West Coast! But the trek across country will not be a smooth ride. And when she makes it to San Fran, Jess will clash with surprising foes like Zzzax and Angar the Screamer, while meeting some fresh faces who perhaps have the potential to become New…Champions?! But why does Jess have a sinking feeling that there's more to these teens than meets the eye? Just who exactly are the Assembly, how did they get their powers and whose side are they really on? The shocking reveals don't end there!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels

120 pages, Paperback

Published December 3, 2024

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Assembly...Assemble?


Less than meets the eye?

I wasn't expecting Jessica Drew's ongoing one-woman crusade against Hydra to kind of become a backdoor New Champions pilot but OK, then.

The change of setting to SF and the anti-venture capital message was entertaining, at least.

[MoonKnight · Rating 4 out of 5]

So much fun!!!

[Paul · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

this run ends with Jessica in San Francisco still mulling over her son Gerry who has been aged and turned into a Hydra assassin.
that's strangely not resolved...
instead she crosses path with a new group of young Supers-The Assembly (new Champions) and Angst the Secreamer...who I remember from his Iron Man days.

[Tyler Jenkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great outing for my first time reading a solo Spider-Woman series. I liked it a lot and I can’t wait to see this story continue, I assume Jessica’s search for her son will unfold in the pages of West Coast Avengers and I know the kids of The Assembly have their own series coming as the new New Champions. I’m glad I picked this up, I only did it at first for the Gang War tie in but I’m happy I stuck with it.

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reeling from the revelation that her lost son is actually the villainous Green Mamba, Spider-Woman crosses the country to San Fran, ostensibly on the hunt for said son, but also just kinda getting away from it all. What she finds is (essentially) a new Champions team, The Assembly, who have an odd desire to save corporate America from protesters...

It comes as no surprise that this new super-team is not what it seems (and is tied into Hydra's child brainwashed child labor scheme). It's a somewhat predictable storyline (that doesn't at all resolve the Green Mamba conundrum), but it looks great and reads fast. Solid middle-grade Marvel...which makes it all the more unfortunate that the run is abruptly concluded here.

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad way to conclude a series run...

Jessica Drew is on the search for her aged-up son, Gerry (now a Hydra villain going by the name of Green Mamba) AND Hydra themselves. Her search brings her back to some of her old stomping grounds in San Francisco. While getting her bearings, she bumps into a new superhero team called...'The Assembly' and they're pretty much Younger Young Avengers with legacy names and NO history that Jessica can find.

Fishy, right?

Turns out that Hydra has had a hand in a LOT of things. 'The Assembly' is the latest plaything they've been working on.
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Bonus: I like the Hydra mischief, but I wanted it to be a longer thing. Maybe they can pick this up in another series?

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

fine enough. but the main story is cut short

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jessica heads to San Francisco for a new start, but finds herself having to rescue a new group of super-teens from...themselves?

It's nice to see Jess in this parental role, just to twist the knife a little more about the unfortunate circumstances surrounding her own son. The Assembly aren't particularly inventive since they're just baby versions of the usual suspects, but the personalities ring true, and I enjoyed some of the D list villains that got to shine in both actually villainous and supporting roles.

It felt like this book was just about getting off the ground, but alas, ten issues is about the limit for most second tier books these days. Fun while it lasted.

[C.T. Phipps · Rating 5 out of 5]

SPIDER-WOMAN: THE ASSEMBLY is a story about how Jessica Drew returns to her old stomping grounds in San Fransisco and finds a bunch of child superheroes brainwashed by Hydra into unwitting tools. There's a lot of fun to be had here even if I wasn't a big fan of the New Champions. It tied in nicely to her story with Gerry. I sadly feel like they were setting up a lot more plots when the book was abruptly cancelled. For example bringing back Jessica's love interest from the Seventies only for it to go nowhere. Still, it was very enjoyable.

[Velhala · Rating 5 out of 5]

Would have loved if this series had kept going