Your favorite web-slinging wonders from SPIDER-VERSE, together on one titanic team! Spider-Gwen, Spider-UK, Arana "Spider-Woman" Corazon, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man India and the porktacular Spider-Ham have banded together to protect the worlds without wall-crawlers from their base on Earth-001. But when Electro and his own army of alternate-reality evildoers wreak havoc across the Web of Life, it will take the whole team — plus some amazing Spider-guests — to stop him! Gwen finds herself stranded far from home, but the breakout star of SPIDER-VERSE is no damsel in distress. Can she find her way back to the fight in time, before things go from bad to Electroverse? They're the Web-Warriors, and their not-so-friendly neighborhood is all of reality!
Collects Web Warriors #1-5 and material from Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1
This comic series is the webby hairball result that came out of the Spider-Verse event. In that storyline, Spider-people from a bunch of different realities were being hunted down by creepy vampire-esque creatures who wanted to drain them of their Spidery-good, nourishing, watermelon-flavored essence.
The Web-Warriors are a band of Spider-heroes who protect the resulting worlds of the Web-verse who no longer have a Spider-person. This book is essentially written around the breakout character Spider-Gwen, who gets the lioness’s share of page time…
…but there are others in the book:
Spider-UK (Billy Braddock), who’s the leader of the group and who’s penciled in with a British accent.
Spider-Ham, who if he’s the comic relief Spider-being, isn’t that funny.
There’s Spider-Man Noir who I’d like to see more of. Also, Spider-Man India, Spider-Girl and other web slinging wonders.
They also need to protect the Web of the Spider Verse from other sinister reality surfing groups, in this case, it’s the Electros from the Electro-verse.
I can’t wait for the Kangeroos from the Joey-verse or Typefaces from the Alphabet-verse.
The plot moves along fairly briskly, with the best moments taking place in the “60’s Spider-Man cartoon verse.
For anyone who wants to know what exactly Spider-Man is doing behind the desk, you can check-out the NSFW memes.
Bottom line: There are worse ways to spend quality comic book reading time. For lovers of the Spider-Verse series, Spider-Gwen, the cartoon show or the new animated movie or anyone that has a Spider-fetish.
I didn't really care for the Electroverse story. Electro saw Morlun eat the Spider-man of his world and gets the frequency to open portals to other worlds. Then he gathers up a bunch of Electros to basically be the evil version of the Web Warriors. Not much in the way of plot here. David Baldeon's art is kind of sloppy. I liked it much better when he drew Nova.
Spider-Verse was one of the very few Marvel 'events' that I actually enjoyed. Not only enjoyed but enjoyed a great deal. Because of this, I am very happy to have a part of that 'event' live on in this Web Warriors book.
The basic concept is that a group of alternate universe Spider-folks who met during the Spider-Verse event have decided to band together to protect the multiverse from similar threats. I like the concept (it reminds me a bit of my much-missed Exiles book) and I'm having an absolute blast reading it.
If you're on the fence, I'll push you off it by telling you one of the team is SPIDER-HAM!!! Woohoo! Another team member is Spider-Gwen and, for some reason, I like her a lot more in this book than in her own title.
One of the benefits, as far as the stakes are concerned, is that you really feel that nobody is safe in this book and, let me tell ya, not everybody gets to the end of this first volume alive. I almost cried at the end. Almost.
The artwork's pretty decent too. I'm hoping this book has a nice long run. (Do long runs even exist anymore at Marvel?)
World: The art is solid, it does a good job at showing all the different Spiders and the sense of motion is good. The world building is solid, it continues on from Spider-Verse and pretty much continues and has a reason for the Spiders to be a team. The premise is solid the pieces are fun and this world is interesting, if a bit one note.
Story: The story is very one note, we just finished Spider-Verse and we are essentially getting the same story verbatim with another Spidey villain. It sounds fun on paper but in reality it’s the same old and not that interesting. There are a lot of characters here and some are fan favorites and I enjoy the lineup, that being said this series is all action and very little character development making readers not really care about the Spiders themselves. More quiet moments and issues that focus on each Spider would have been better than a Electro version of Spider-Verse.
Characters: A lot of fun Spiders here and there is a lot of potential for interesting stories. But at the same time this book falls into the same story points for alternate versions of Spiders, you can only go so far with different versions and it feeling fresh. That’s what is happening here, we get more versions and we look at them and they interesting for a second and then the story and characters show their lack of depth and it’s not interesting anymore.
It’s not a bad book, just pointless and redundant and not the way this series should have gone.
I liked this more than I had thought that I was going to, but it's still just a way to stretch out Spider-Verse. Featuring what I'm guessing were the most popular surviving Spiders, this is more multi-verse hopping. The surviving Spiders, some of whom no longer have a home universe to return to, have taken on the responsibility for stepping in to help universes that lost their Spiders during the events of Spider-Verse. And as far as setups go, it isn't bad. I actually liked the characters a lot more than I liked the story, and I'm probably going to be back for at least one more volume just to see them. There's a serious missed opportunity in that Spider-Zilla only shows up briefly, in one background panel. I would read a six issue miniseries about Spider-Zilla, and you would, too.
One of the great things about the "Spider-verse" event was meeting all the different people who have taken on the spider-mantle and seeing them interact with each other, as well as villains, other heroes, and civilians as well.
This series is the answer for all those who felt the same way.
We pick up basically where Spiderverse left off. Our team of web-slingers monitor the multiverse for issues they can assist specifically in the universes where the spider totem was killed.
As any good team book goes, the team is not a well oiled machine at first. They have trained and they work well together, but there are still things to be worked out as far as communication. Especially when you have multiple versions of Electro bearing down on you.
The art is good, it have a fun vibe to it that really keeps it interesting and fun. The only thing I would hope for is that Tadesco keeps doing the covers as his art is beautiful.
This is a good fun book that seems to be setting up some plot points down the line. For now, it is a fun romp that will keep any fan of the spiderverse happy.
3.5 stars. This was definitely a huge improvement from the Spider-Verse series during Secret Wars. While it's nothing mind blowing or revolutionary this book is just really fun and breezy without taking itself too seriously. The characters are all written well and enjoyable and we're given a decent cast of villains for them to play off of. My expectations weren't high for this series but it managed to really over deliver on all fronts, would definitely recommend giving it a read.
Reprints Amazing Spider-Man (3) #1 and Web-Warriors #1-5 (December 2015-May 2016). The Web-Warriors have a mission to protect the Spider-Verse. When they discover a cadre of Electros have also discovered the Spider-Verse and are secretly gaining powers, the Web-Warriors are in for the fight of their lives. Cut off from the web, the Web-Warriors are scrambling for a means to stop the Electros and their leader the Battery which controls them all!
Written by Mike Costa with additional writing by Robbie Thompson, Web-Warriors; Protectors of the Spider-Verse Volume 1: Electroverse is a Marvel Comics series which spun out of the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse crossover event. The series features art by David Baldeon and Denis Medri and also contains the Web-Warriors’ first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man (3) #1 (December 2015) which was also reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide—Volume 1.
I bought the first issue of Web-Warriors but skipped it when it continued. The fantastic Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse renewed my interest in the series and had me going back to read the issues I missed (including the Spider-Verse storyline). While the Spider-Verse movie was a lot of fun, Web-Warriors seems like it misses the mark at points.
The story reels in a lot of fun characters. I always felt like Anya got a raw deal in her own series so it is nice to see her taking a center stage here. Additionally, I enjoyed the few appearances of Spider-Man Noir in his various surfacing including video games…plus, adding Spider-Gwen and an animated Spider-Pig is automatically more fun. While the concept is just, the execution leaves something to be desired.
The story gets a bit bogged down in techno-garble. I didn’t read the Spider-Verse and the basic set-up is a bit hard to follow with Web-Warriors based on Earth-001. The whole means of travelling between the worlds and the problems the Web-Warriors have when they can’t link mean little to me and I don’t know that Costa did the best job creating the set-up for those who were “jumping on”.
Web-Warriors just isn’t quite there. I like what it is trying, and I like the characters, but it just needs that extra push to make it good. With the dangerous and deadly world of comic book publishing, if a series can’t grab on quickly, it is doomed (heck, it is sometimes doomed if it does grab quickly). Web-Warriors feels like it faces the same fate. Web-Warriors: Protectors of the Spider-Verse 1: Electroverse is followed by Web-Warriors: Protectors of the Spider-Verse 2: Spiders Vs.
This is basically just a slice off of Spider-Verse with maybe a bit more focus. If you hated Spider-Verse, this won't change your mind.
If the idea of a Spider-Man books that opens with a bunch of alternate universe Spideys, including Spider-Ham, entering the world of the 60s TV cartoon (completely with direct references to some of the most endearingly silly moments the show ever had, like Spider-Man sat motionless at a desk with a picture of himself on the wall in the exact same pose) in any way interests you, this is basically a bunch of moments like that. Spider-Gwen remains a highlight. Spider-Ham gets some great moments. It's an artless mess of references and sight gags, but it's comfy superhero schlock, especially for those who like the zanier "multiverse" styles of continuity.
The only real problem with this book is that, and I suppose this is to be expected, some of the Spideys are indistinguishable from each other without absolutely scrutinizing over the details. I didn't realize until long after she was introduced that Mayday Parker had entered the fray, which is a really important plot detail - and one that wouldn't be anywhere near as obfuscated in a book that wasn't all Spider-characters, all the time. That, and it can get somewhat wearying, to a point - it's so high-energy, for so long, and it's so dense with character and jokes and quips, it's at a consistent fever pitch. Even in the quieter narrative moments, there's, like, five Spideys in any given panel. It's pretty hectic. I can imagine quite a few readers will find it somewhat intolerable.
Other than that, I thought this was tremendous fun! And I don't even like Electro very much.
The Web-Warriors are a team of multiversal Spider-Men led by Spider-UK (Billy Braddock). The other members of the team are Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man India, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Girl (Mayday Parker), Spider-Ham, and Spider-Girl (Anya Corazon). Together they travel the multiverse, defending Earths that have lost their Spider-Man. Along the way, they run afoul of another multiversal super-team, consisting of hundreds of different versions of Electro. Can they defeat the Electros or is this the end of the Spider-Men?
This was surprisingly good. While I'd probably appreciate it more with greater knowledge of the characters (the only one I've read before is Spider-Gwen), I still enjoyed it. It's way better than Spider-Verse: Warzones!.
Compré una edición mexicana, que sacaron con la película de Into the Spider-verse; esta edición traía este primer arco, la primera aparición de Spider-Gwen en Edge of the spiderverse #2 y el anual de spider Gwen. El que más me gustó fue el anual que de hecho no viene en esta versión en inglés que estoy reseñando. Ahora si, entrando a lo que realmente podrás encontrar si compras este primer arco, tras los sucesos de Spider-Verse, Spiderman UK, reúne un equipo de hombres araña que se encarguen de cuidar las tierras que se quedaron sin Spider Man. Lamentablemente, un Electro se entera de eso y reúne también un equipo multi versal de electros y Dr. Octopus. La acción de este cómic es buena, la trama es muy simple y las interacciones entre los miembros del equipo, esto era muy explotable, no son tan buenas. Es interesante ver a los distintos electros y ver un poquito más de acción del tío Ben que es un hombre araña. Pero de ahí en fuera no aporta gran cosa y sólo es entretenido. El arte no es de mi agrado totalmente.
A group of Spider-people protect the universes that lost their own Spider-people. I love these characters!! Mayday Parker (Earth-982) is fantastic, and Lady Spider, Lady May Reilly, from a Victorian steampunk NYC in Earth-805 is just fantastic. She's an orphan engineer, lives alone in her family's mansion and invents stuff. She has her own Black Cat, too. Spidey Noir is also involved, whom I love, plus Spider-Gwen and even Peter Porker. It seemed a little odd for Pavitr Prabhakar and his MJ to look so white--not sure if that's bad coloring or explained in a Spider-verse text somewhere. Much like spider-people are working together here, Electros from hundreds of universes have combined forces and are looking to take down all the Spidey's, everywhere.
The length and breadth of my digital comic collection means that a lot of titles get lost in the shuffle in things. Case in point, this post-Spider-Verse series was something I've had since 2017 but only got around to reading now.
This was an obvious effort to attempt to capitalize on Spider-Verse mania by providing a venue for continued exploration of the Spider-Verse and the alternate realities. And this first volume did a great job of things by bringing into play the infinite versions of other characters, in this case, Electro. And to have the various Electros of the multiverse working together made for quite the interesting little epic with our small band of Web Warriors tested to the limits of their abilities.
read this prior to the screening of into-the spiderverse. honestly, it's pretty fun to see the quirky appearances of the spider-people and their adventures in saving the world. love spider-gwen and spider-ham the most (because ham is literally a walking clown pig!). rated this one 3.5, perhaps i'm gonna continue it! . .
unrelated: also, last review of the year. i realized that i read comics and shorts more since i'm too busy with the national exam and my first semester in the uni. tbh, what a great year! hope i could read more and longer book on next year. happy new year eve, everyone!
I went into this with low expectations but was pleasantly surprised. The gang of spider-people work well, contrasting personalities and skills while the Electro-verse set up was amusing (to be fair, it would work with any of the rogues gallery but for some reason, Electro seems funnier (perhaps only the Rhino would have been more amusing). I'm not sure it would actually be possible to defeat them all given Electro's powerset but still.
Nice artwork and banter, some fun moments in the first volume of this run.
Following up on Spider-Verse, alternate Electros have started travelling the web of worlds.
The story and art were okay, but the characters were underutilized. Like, you could have swapped out most of them for any other version of Spider-Man and the story would have been the same. Also, I would have liked more explanation as to why some realities were restored after Secret Wars, but Spider UK's workd is still gone.
The first volume of Webwarriors takes the post Spider-verse team of Spider Totems on a quest to patrol the worlds that have been stripped of their Spider heroes because they dies in Spider-verse.
Things get hampered when from the fallout of the Inheritors Spider hunting - a new threat emerges.
It was good to see the various different Spider men and women from other Earths again.
The real joy of this book seems to be the group shots of 4-6 spider-people or electros where one of them is really weird. Like a horse or an ice cream cone or something.
Otherwise, it's fun to spend time with the specific and different spider-people. Spider-Gwen is always good. Spider Ham is always toooooooooo much. A little less would go a long way!
I read this volume in a Spanish edition for LatAm that includes a couple of extra stories starring Spider Gwen. I have not read the Spider-Verse saga (I'm familiar through other comics or the fabulous animated movie), but I really liked this one as a great follow-up for a multi-verse still open for business and great adventures.
I quite enjoyed this. Art is good and whilst the story isn't groundbreaking it's actually quite interesting and unique whilst at the same time keeping in touch with some of the more interesting characters from the Spider verse. The only one I didn't particularly like was the nominal leader the Captain Britain Spiderman but otherwise it was a good cast.
I picked this up because I lived Into the Spiderverse so much, but I found this extremely hard to follow at times. It definitely reads like the setup to a series though, so I would be interested to see where the rest of it goes from here.
Only complaint: Paviitr Prabhakar is way too fair skinned. If you're going to make an Indian spider-man can he at least be somewhat darker skinned than every other character. And his hair is far too light a shade of brown.
A bit more tongue-in-cheek and light-hearted than I was looking forward to. Basically, a side adventure with some of the secondary characters in the main Spider-Verse storyline.