Spider Gwen: Ghost Spider

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I’m a fan of all three spiders, and yes there are three. First, we have the original Spider-Man, the one from the movies and cartoons A.K.A. Peter Parker, then we have Miles Morales Spider-Man and finally Gwen Stacy, Spider Gwen.

You may be asking yourself, “How many spiders does this earth actually need?” That’s a valid question and one with a very simple answer. This earth has only one, Peter Parker. Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy are spiders on other earths, because in the world of Marvel, there’s not just our universe, there’s a multi-verse.

Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy patrol the streets on New York City on their earth, Gwen’s being Earth 65, while Miles hangs out on Earth 1610. Yeah, there are that many earths.

In Spider Gwen: Ghost Spider, we find Gwen once again rocking on the drums with her band, the Mary Janes, as in Mary Jane Watson, the love of Peter Parker on this earth, the old-school Earth 1. Gwen, as you would expect a masked superhero to do, often bails on her band so she can fight crime on the streets of the Big Apple.

Ghost Spider #9 shows that Gwen has just saved her bandmates from a bomb attack by an as yet unknown attacker. After a little help from the police, Gwen finds out that she was right, “a supervillain wouldn’t use bombs, but a monster would.”

That monster goes by the name Man Wolf and Gwen, of course, goes after him, and of course, he’s hiding out in an old, creepy, abandoned warehouse. After all, isn’t that where bad guys always hang out?

When Gwen finally lays her eyes on the Man Wolf, she sees that not only is he furry and blue, but also that he/it is at least three times her size.

Man Wolf tells Gwen that better heroes than her have tried to stop him and that he sleeps on a bed of their bones. In the true Spider Gwen character, instead of being afraid she laughs at him and says, “A bed of their bones? Seriously? What are you twelve?”

Spider Gwen has some good writing.

She takes care of the big blue monster by wrapping him up in webs as a gift for the police, and finally heads off to the hospital to see her injured friend, Harry Osborn. Issue #9 closes with the band in Harry’s hospital room where they hang out as friends, even though they, and the rest of the world, know Gwen’s identity.

Get ready for Spider Gwen: Ghost Spider #10 by getting caught up on issues 1-9, possibly available at your local comic book store and definitely available at the Marvel Comic Store.

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