Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) Appreciation - "To Know Her is to Fear Her"

[Huntsman Spider]

Downloaded Spider-Force. Had some issues with the art and one or two of Jessica's lines otherwise it was pretty good.

I would agree with you there, but which lines did you have an issue with, if I may ask?

[Seren]

I would agree with you there, but which lines did you have an issue with, if I may ask?

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When she tells Kaine he's right that she needs her son to see her how she is - I feel like Jess would be more inclined to not let Verna anywhere near her kid.

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[Digifiend]

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Of course Kaine withheld information - she doesn't know what any of the other spiders are doing - and Gwen in particular is in need of rescue. I've no doubt that if she knew the full picture she'd have found some other way to show Gerry what Spider-Woman can do. She would also maybe want to check in on Silk, who hasn't appeared in Spider-Geddon at all yet.

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[Huntsman Spider]

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When she tells Kaine he's right that she needs her son to see her how she is - I feel like Jess would be more inclined to not let Verna anywhere near her kid.

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That's a good point. Jessica may want nothing to do with the "Spider-Verse," but that wouldn't preclude her from protecting Gerry at all costs, since she knows the Inheritors, particularly Verna, would stop at nothing, either.

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Of course Kaine withheld information - she doesn't know what any of the other spiders are doing - and Gwen in particular is in need of rescue. I've no doubt that if she knew the full picture she'd have found some other way to show Gerry what Spider-Woman can do. She would also maybe want to check in on Silk, who hasn't appeared in Spider-Geddon at all yet.

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Good point as well about Silk. She'll probably show up near the end, if at all.

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[Seren]

Alright so here's a question. It would seem that Jess makes it out of Spidergeddon alive (Jess has a big role in the first arc of Kelly Thompson's Captain Marvel), but the solicitation for number 3 still makes it sound like things might not turn out well for her. What do you think may happen?

[Huntsman Spider]

Alright so here's a question. It would seem that Jess makes it out of Spidergeddon alive (Jess has a big role in the first arc of Kelly Thompson's Captain Marvel), but the solicitation for number 3 still makes it sound like things might not turn out well for her. What do you think may happen?

She gets into a fight with Verna and lives, but has to live with knowing she did something against her moral code to beat Verna or survive against her. It's Christopher Priest, moral gray zones and doing bad things for good reasons (or even good things for bad reasons) is his specialty in trade.

[Seren]

That's what I'm thinking too. Though if she's the one who kills Verna (assuming Verna dies again), I don't think she'd be all that upset? I mean, she's killed before - granted it was Skrulls and they may be the exception rather than the rule, but I don't think that's the case.

I'm glad to hear that about Priest though and I think he's a good writer for Jess for that reason. Interested to see where it goes.

[Huntsman Spider]

That's what I'm thinking too. Though if she's the one who kills Verna (assuming Verna dies again), I don't think she'd be all that upset? I mean, she's killed before - granted it was Skrulls and they may be the exception rather than the rule, but I don't think that's the case.

I'm glad to hear that about Priest though and I think he's a good writer for Jess for that reason. Interested to see where it goes.

Probably not. It'd have to be something like using "Charlie"/Spider-Kid as bait or otherwise deliberately sacrificing him to give herself the needed shot or edge against Verna, given her love and protectiveness of her own son Gerry. I could see that haunting her for a long while, and I'm also interested to see where this goes.

[Seren]

Ohhhh. Why didn't I think of that???

[Thirteen]

Spider-woman flying science...
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ource=vicefbus

[DragonsChi]

Spider-woman flying science...
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...ource=vicefbus

That is very cool. Thank you for sharing it!

Hope Jess gains(regains?) flight abilities. It was one of the things I always thought was really cool about her.

[Seren]

Jess was only ever able to glide. It was Veranke posing as Jess who could fly I thought?

[Kurolegacy]

Jess was only ever able to glide. It was Veranke posing as Jess who could fly I thought?

I think there was something that the Skrulls did to her that gave her the ability to fly but, apparently the Doctor Strange Secret Empire tie-in retconned it to that she can only glide and people confuse it for flying. Though there definitely had to have been something where she did have the ability to fly since in Marvel Ultimately Alliance, she was one of the flight capable heroes and only those who could fly had that ability.

[DragonsChi]

I think there was something that the Skrulls did to her that gave her the ability to fly but, apparently the Doctor Strange Secret Empire tie-in retconned it to that she can only glide and people confuse it for flying. Though there definitely had to have been something where she did have the ability to fly since in Marvel Ultimately Alliance, she was one of the flight capable heroes and only those who could fly had that ability.

In her early comic they said she was gliding...but if you look at the panels the things she was doing came off more like flight.

Such as being ground level and achieving lift along with propulsion. Another example would be her "chasing" flying foes in the air with almost equal speeds. For the longest time it was never really clear what she was doing. I half thought the writers gave her flight and just didn't explain how.

[Seren]

Bendis did have her flying immediately after Secret Invasion if I recall correctly, but then later sent her back to gliding. I could be remembering wrong.