Spinning out of the Spider-Verse event, a team of Spiders find themselves face-to-face with Battleworld! Starring Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man: India, Anya Corazon, Spider-UK, and Spider-Ham!
I'm really tired of these fairly aimless Secret Wars Battleworld tie-ins. What's the point if the majority of them don't adequately add to the main story? So Spider-People aren't sure why they are where they are and one of them thinks he knows why. Blah.
Somebody at Marvel HQ must have learned something from the disaster that was the previous year's Spider-Verse title. This was wonderful, and makes me excited to start the volume that has been languishing in my to-be-read pile for months! I also may have to read the rest of this year's Spider-Verse. (I got this issue in a "mystery pack" at a comic store event.)
[Here, I speak for the whole five issues of Secret Wars: Spider-Verse]
After having gone through the other mini-series that are part of Secret Wars, I can say that this has been the most exciting one, in fact a real page-turner. It's fun to see the different Spider-Men tackle a different problem with different personalities and ways of discovering each other and teaming up in the best possible way.
The story line does have me wanting to know more and Spider-Ham is hilarious (loved the slightly out of focus art for this mini story). The overall art is interesting (makes me think of a certain kind of anime I've seen before but can't quite place), but I'm not a fan of how the artist drew Gwen Stacey...oh well, can't have it all, right?
I enjoyed this book far more than I expected. I bought it so I could experience a spider-gwen story but 3 issues in I'm still reading. Fun is the only excuse or reason I can give... fun.