Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider Omnibus

Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (2018) #1-2

by Mike Costa, Seanan McGuire, David Baldeón (Artist)

Gwen Stacy returns…as Ghost-Spider! But the interdimensional events of Spider-Geddon are about to rock her world, and soon, she will face her own evil the Gwen Goblin! Meanwhile, Mary Jane's vision for their band is driving Gwen crazy, her father is pressuring her to return to school and something sinister stalks the New York City of Gwen's Earth-65. So Gwen enrolls in classes in the Marvel Universe instead! But the newest student at ESU has caught the Jackal's deadly eye! And when the King in Black plunges Gwen's adoptive home into darkness, get ready for Gwenom vs. Carnage! Whatever happened to the Susan and Johnny Storm of Earth-65? And look back to Gwen's time with the dimension-hopping Web-Warriors!

Collects GHOST-SPIDER #1-10, GHOST-SPIDER VIDEO COMIC, GHOST-SPIDER #1-10 and ANNUAL #1, KING IN GWENOM VS. CARNAGE #1-3, WEB WARRIORS #1-11 and material from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2015) #1.

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Comic Book, Collections, Graphic Novels Comics

812 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 2, 2023

About the author

Mike Costa is an American comic book and television writer.

Reviews

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reading a life in reverse order?

This omnibus ends with the series that probably should have started the collection. The Web Warriors series was a miniseries that sprang from the Spiderverse mega event. It gave them a chance to go into the backstories of some popular characters from that run. That's all well and good. It's really weird, though, to END the omnibus with Gwen teaming up with characters that she's mourning in the START of the collection.

There's also the 'Spider-Geddon: Ghost-Spider Video Comic' that is the probably a cleaner, tighter mini comic than the 'Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider' #1 issue that pretty much copies the comic and adds (in my opinion) unnecessary dialogue.

I also find it amusing that for a character that hated being called Spider-Gwen, mentioned the need for a name change, and backdoor renamed herself....

...the series omnibus still includes that name they were trying to get away from.

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Bonus: Gwen's books both ended, leaving pretty large plot threads dangling
Bonus Bonus: cellulose? really? that's what it eats?

Bonus x 3: The Web of Life is attacked by...Electros? Really? He's a credible threat? I mean it's eventually going to take on wasps, so you know they're running out of plot fuel but seriously.

[Joshua]

So first you get McGuire’s whole run on Ghost-Spider, which STARTS in a tie-in before really taking off just in time to unceremoniously end, threads dangling in the wind, in ANOTHER tie-in which itself does not have an ending. Then you pivot to Costa’s Web Warriors, a fun book that takes place and was released BEFORE the Ghost-Spider of it all.

Nothing overtly offensive about any of the material here in its own right, but slapping it together and calling it an omnibus feels, at best, lazy.

Hoping Spider-Gwen gets another proper, long run sometime in the future.

[Alyce Caswell · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is not my usual preference to buy a book so heavy to hold, or one that contains issues I already own - but this was, oddly enough, the cheapest option to read more of Spider-Gwen's adventures. I really enjoyed them. Spider-Gwen/Ghost Spider is my fave comic book character. The main problem with this collection is not the stories themselves, but how they're arranged (out of chronological order). And look... while I love McGuire's run, reading it again made me realise that all those plot threads never got resolved. I'm disappointed by that once again.

[Nicole Magolan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Had to take it down a star because of the way this omnibus collection ends with some of the crossover spiderverse events that take place...BEFORE the events of the rest of the comics you've just read. Bizarre choice. They were also just not very good. 😬

But the storyline through Gwen's standalone series that's collected here is great. I love her weird school-in-alternate-dimension struggles, and her weird spidey villains. The drama with her friends and her dad is pretty well done too. I hope we get more grounded series featuring Gwen in the future.

[Keith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Would rate the first half of the book 4 stars. Not as good as the first book, but still fun. Then the second half is random stories to fill in gaps from other books and Web Warriors (which is why I dropped it to a 3). Doesn’t have the same feel to it and the focus isn’t on Gwen. Hope the next book finishes out the story from the first half since they don’t resolve anything (I believe this was due to Covid and other stores with her character involved taking priority)

[Chez Nash · Rating 3 out of 5]

not as good as earlier spider gwen comics

[Irving Madrigal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Honestly this book was so mid. I prefer the newer run of Gwen. I got this for Christmas anyways, and I’m just finishing it rn, lowkey might sell it cuz it’s just not what I expected