Writers: Zeb Wells, Cody Ziglar, Steve Foxe, Stephanie Phillips, Greg Weisman & Alex Segura
Artists: Eleonora Carlini, Ig Guara, Eric Gapstur, Joey Vazquez & Salvador Larroca
Pencilers: John Romita Jr., Ed McGuinness & Greg Land
Inkers: Scott Hanna, Mark Farmer & Jay Leisten
Colorists: Marcio Menyz, Arthur Hesli, Arif Prianto, Matt Milla, Frank D’Armata, Edgar Delgado & GURU-eFX
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $7.99
Release Date: March 20, 2024
Peter Parker's unhappy with Tombstone. A happy Hightail worries Miles. Spider-Woman moves house to escape her troubled past. Norman Osborn's heroism provides little satisfaction. With the goblins menacing and spider heroes embracing evil, might the Web Of Life and Destiny unravel? Let’s leap into Web Of Spider-Man #1 and find out!
Amazing Spider-Man Part 2
Story
Madelyne Pryor rules Limbo. Rek-Rap and Re-Po hunted down the Insidious Six. So why is Norman Osborn, the Golden Goblin, apprehending the Grave Goblin in Web Of Spider-Man #1? The interplay between the two goblins reveals Norman's uncertainty over who he is and where he belongs. Zeb Wells' story also hints that Madelyne Pryor’s relationship with New York City has changed.
Art
Ed McGuinness and Mark Farmer bring us a brief, high-octane battle. A punch sends one goblin spiraling out of control, his glider belching smoke and fire. Colorist Marcio Menyz contrasts Norman's gold and white with his adversary's purple and lavender. Yet the Grave Goblin's orange and yellow glider exhaust and the Golden Goblin's purple headlamp and purple projectiles emphasize Norman's final words to his skeletal foe.
Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider
Stephanie Phillips introduces Spider-Gwen's upcoming series. Crows or ravens lend a gothic tone, while these harbingers of danger remind Gwen of bonding with her father over an Alfred Hitchcock classic. While Madame Web studies the Web Of Life And Destiny, another observer risks his job to enlist Gwen's aid. Did his actions create these horrific events? Or do they signal a growing cancer?
Art
As Gwen sits in a diner reading a hardcover book, life outside the windows on Earth-65 harkens back to an earlier era on Earth 616. Smoke rises from Gwen's coffee like a twisting paper streamer. Like a symbiote, the coffee leaps out of her mug. The liquid forms a hand and dives toward her, only to splatter on the floor. When Gwen leaves the diner, night has fallen, and lightning from Gwen’s head fills the darkness. Then Eric Gapstur shows her city in ruins. Gwen walks rubble-filled streets and thwips through the air, pursued by Poe's favorite birds.
Matt Milla lavishes soft pastels on the daytime diner scenes and infuses the apocalyptic night with pink, purple, red, and orange, while the observer's office-bound scenes are awash with light. The pink walls and upholstery of the diner speak to the apocalyptic sky, while the green coffee mug and floor link with the observer who acts on behalf of the Web Of Life And Destiny.
Chasm
Story
Steve Foxe’s story picks up where Zeb Wells’ second Amazing Spider-Man story ended, with Gold Goblin delivering Grave Goblin to Limbo. Madeline Pryor accepts him, yet she's tired of being Limbo's warden. She identifies with those placed in her care, remembering how others hurt her and vowing never to let others hurt her again.
Like Madelyne, Chasm isn't embracing gratitude as his superpower. He also concentrates on what he has lost. After a year trapped in Limbo, his resentment has become an inferno.
Steve Foxe's meditation on how power isolates people from others burns with the promise of a Goblin Queen indifferent to the concerns of humanity and a raging Chasm intent on destroying anyone and anything that ever hurt him.
Art
Greg Land and Jay Leisten imbue Madelyne with glamor and poise. Her beloved Havoc looks uneasy in her presence. Chasm crouches and prepares to strike. With smoke wisping off him, Chasm attacks his guards. The artists imbue the demons with personality. Some show more humanity than Madelyne and Chasm.
Colorist Frank D’Armata makes life outside the Limbo Embassy seem cold and lifeless in Web Of Spider-Man #1. With the gates, Madelyne’s hair radiates a red glow. Torches blaze yellow behind the gold-and-silver armored guards. Chasm summons power that reflects his blue, purple, and green costume. Chasm whips a green serrated power-whip through the air like a web-slinging Indiana Jones when more red demons arrive.
Thanks to Marvel for providing this issue for review.
Final Thoughts
As crimelords, vampires, HYDRA, goblins, and Eternals threaten our world, Limbo’s borders weaken, and heroes from across the spider-verse unite to combat threats to the Web Of Life And Destiny in Web Of Spider-Man #1.
Rating 9.8/10
To preview interior art see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.
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