Spider-Girl Modern Era Epic Collection: Comes The Carnage!

by Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz (Illustrator), Marvel Various (Illustrator)

Peter Parker and Mary Jane’s fan-favorite daughter stars in her second spectacular series!

May “Mayday” Parker learns she can’t escape her great responsibilities and returns to the web-slinging life! But that decision may prove fatal for one of her closest friends when an assassin hunting Spider-Girl targets all the teenage girls volunteering at St. Andrews Shelter! Meanwhile, Peter and Mary Jane Parker struggle to accept their daughter’s recent decision, and Spider-Girl finds herself torn between friendship and justice when one of the Ladyhawks embarks on a mission of vengeance! But when Carnage is reborn and targets the Parker family, May comes to the shocking realization that the symbiote’s new host is someone she knows! And Spider-Girl is caught in the middle of a war between the Black Tarantula and the Hobgoblin!

 Amazing Spider-Girl (2006) #0-15

Genres: Comics

384 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 2026

About the author

Tom DeFalco is an American comics writer and editor, well-known for his association with Marvel Comics and Spider-Man.

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This collects Amazing Spider-Girl 0-15 and is indeed amazing. May deals with such threats as disappointing her parents, maintaining interpersonal relationships, high school, and all the crime fighting. The DeFalco/Frenz/Buscema team delivers banger after banger. Is this one of the best Spider-books of the late 1990s and early 2000s? It sure is, True Believer!

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'd intended to read Mayday's story from the beginning, but the constant renumbering of series in the modern day tricked me into picking up this volume instead. (@!#*)(#.) Anyway, that's probably why I found this volume a little hard to get into at first. There were just too many characters that didn't seem well-developed as well as this whole (annoying) subtext of Mayday having given up heroing.

But further in, I came to appreciate it more (especially as the annoying subplot was put away). Mayday's supporting cast is rich and the villains make for interesting storytelling. Oh, no mistake, this is just super hero soap opera at its most operatic, but it's fine within that category.

[Nicky · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't think there's much I can add to my previous Spider-Girl reviews. These are good superhero comics with the right balance of teen angst and stakes. This ends with loose ends, so I'm looking forward to the next volume.