Writer: Stephanie Phillips
Artist: Paolo Villanelli
Colorist: Matt Milla
Letterer: Ariana Maher
Cover Artists: David Marquez & Federico Blee; Corin Howell; Lucio Parrillo; CF Villa
Logo Designer: Stacie Zucker
Production Designer: Kat Walkington
Editors: Emerald Bensadoun, Martin Biro, Jordan D White & CB Cebulski
Publisher: Marvel
Price: $3.99
Release Date: October 29, 2025
While Gwen has a new suit, home, and powers, she strives to recapture what she lost. As she begins anew on Earth-616, she passes out flyers to start a new band. A guitarist named Wes answered her ad. Her friend Cindy Moon takes a crash course in bass guitar to support her. After their first practice, her dad rejoices to see Gwen so happy. But his observation that donning her spider-suit often saps her joy flops like Milli Vanilli’s bombshell announcement.
Now, Gwen’s guitarist is dead. Cindy is in the hospital. George Stacy wants his daughter in protective custody. Instead, Gwen and Fabian pursue Richard Mason, the man seen beside Wes' blood-spattered corpse. They also find something else. Something dark and monstrous. Can Gwen and Fabian defeat the scary monster made of spikes? Or will Gwen's anger get the better of her? Let’s thwip into All-New Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #3 and see!
Story
When Black Tarantula kidnapped Judge Jeffrey Barbour from his home, New Yorkers discovered a new app on their phone. The app alleged that the judge had siphoned public funds into his bank accounts. While the app asked the public to decide Judge Barbour's fate, Black Tarantula's team robbed banks. Then Carlos LaMuerto used that money to do what the judge's actions prevented by caring for New York's unhoused community.
In All-New Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #3, Carlos LaMuerto is angry. The authorities sent him to prison and ignored his legal rights. His court-appointed attorney reminds Carlos that Fabian was hip deep in his father's crimes. Paul Morgan urges Carlos not to press his visitation rights, lest the legal system target Fabian. But Carlos is fed up with being treated like a criminal while the corrupt judge remains at liberty.
Like Earth-616’s Peter Parker after his uncle’s death, Gwen Stacy hungers for revenge. Fabian is also angry. Yet while his father sits in prison, Fabrian restrains Gwen from killing Richard Mason. The spiky alien monster is a different story. In Stephanie Phillips' story, Gwen believes her anger makes her stronger. But beliefs and truth are two different things.
Art
On Ryker’s Island, size matters. But no one looms larger than Carlos LaMuerto. As Paolo Villanelli shows him bound in shackles, a comparison with the man who sent Carlos there, Mayor Luke Cage, is unavoidable. Just like size, colors also flaunt their stuff in All-New Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #3. People who uphold the law wear blue. The man who did the wrong thing for the right reasons wears orange.
In the city where Carlos took the law into his own hands, we glimpse Spider-Gwen and Black Tarantula Junior through the monster's maw. While Gwen, Fabian, and their opponent wear black, the monster's green tongue links it with Richard Mason's jacket. Matt Milla enhances the dark creature with purple and green, the same colors he shaded people with on Ryker’s island. But as Spider-Gwen fights the monster before the dumpsters she tried to relegate it to, the strongest clash is between black on black.
Ariana Maher thwips uppercase black letters into white dialogue balloons with conventional arrows and red letters into turquoise-outlined boxes. A thick line of turquoise underlines the words that locate us in time and space. The text grows bold and enlarges for intonation. Sound effects highlight Carlos’ anger and a fast and furious battle. Yet they also introduce someone who urges Gwen to think first and act later in All-New Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #3. Thanks to Marvel for providing a review copy.
Final Thoughts
Gwen's music was a way to channel her anger at the world. Her flyer sought musicians similarly outraged, even venomous. Gwen may not like to admit it, but her father is right about her spider-suit. Not because the costume is evil, but because of how Gwen uses it in All-New Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #3.
Rating: 9.2/10
To look inside see my review at Comic Book Dispatch.
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