Bumping this thread because she came up in the MU board. Even though I encountered Jessica first, Julia was Spider-Woman when I seriously started reading comics, so she will always be "my" SW.
So, is she still blind? Has she done anything cool in Daredevil? I'm way behind in all my comics reading.
Yup, I 100% agree with everything here. Even though she had some really fun moments as Madame Web, I don't especially like her as a part of Spider-Man's "family" because as you said, she's just an adjunct character there, and there are a lot of other characters in his supporting cast who will end up taking priority over her.
She is a great character, and I also love the premise of her being a single mom/occasional superhero raising her kid in NYC. She was completely screwed over by the government during Civil War, joined a failed Canadian super-team, lost her sight, gained psychic powers, went into a coma for plot convenience, and came out of it. That's a fair amount of stuff that's happened to her in the past 10 years to dig into. But yeah, besides her own title, I don't know where I'd like to see her story told. Well, I do have an idea but I'll save that for later.
Someone upthread mentioned that Rachel was by her hospital bed in Scarlet Spider. I vaguely remember that just before she went into the coma, she sent Rachel back home to Colorado.