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This Week's Reviews: Spider-Gwen #1 Henchmen: I, Henchbot #2 D4VE #1 Men of Wrath #5 Spider-Gwen #1 (Marvel, $3.99) By Graig Kent "That's ridiculous." That's what I first thought when I spied the name "Spider-Gwen" Judging it on name alone it seemed ludicrous, positively dumb. Once I read the concept, though, it seemed less so An alternate universe where the radioactive spider bites[...]

Both Darth Vader #1 and #2 have sold out and gone to second printings. They are joined by Spider-Gwen #1 which has just as predictably gone to second printing. And Star Wars #1? Gone to a fourth printing. Come on, that's a good title.. Expect them all to arrive instore on April 1st UPDATE: We have the covers…   [...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: The Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. This week is another shorty – didn't have much to[...]

Some of the most fun I've had has been interviewing creators and artists, so when the owners of my local comic shop, Conquest Comics told me about their store exclusive variant cover to Spider-Gwen #1 I was intrigued However when they told me that Adam Hughes would be coming in to sign copies on Wednesday[...]

And, a magazine! The Female Heroes issue, handily published on the same day as Secret Origins #10, Orphan Black #1 and Spider-Gwen #1. Yeah and he's a male pig as well Then again, aren't they all Spider-Gwen finds running all the way home to her own, minorly different dimension where Gwen Stacy is the principle Spider[...]

But what about Spider-Woman? There seems to be more or her than ever before… So Spider-Woman is called Spider-Woman in Spider-Woman. Spider-Gwen is called Spider-Woman, from Spider-Gwen #1 And now, from today's Amazing Spider-Man, Spider-Girl is now called Spider-Woman Cross-Time Crossover anyone? And for anyone who complains that's just too many Spider-Man… Pater Parker, Miles Morales, Miguel O'Hara, Peter[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, welcome back to A Comic Show! I'm here with a fat stack of New Comics Now! Spider-Gwen, Batman Endgame, and a slew of Image books made my week. Batman #39 was a thing of beauty Endgame is easily the best bat story I've ever read,[...]

Why go to all that bother when the publishers will be dong it for you in 24 hours or so? And anyway, people grow up, move on, change their habits, hobbies and priorties. Well, not the poster known as Scanbro who, last night, began posting the entire first issue of the much anticipated Spider-Gwen #1 on the[...]

Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: It's another great week of comic books as we get to dive into fantastic new series that start this week. Spider-Gwen hits the shelf this week, and for everybody who has been a fan of the Spider-Verse Universe and what has gone on there, we know that you're more than[...]

An era where diversity isn't just represented because it's politically correct, it's here because it's now, after so many years, being celebrated! Embraced! Devoured! Spider-Gwen as we all know, isn't the first female super-hero by a long shot BUT she is the first one in my 21 years of retailing to BLOW the doors off the[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! It's all about Star Wars, with retailers placing 8 titles in the top 25, though the anticipated performance of Howard The Duck and Spider-Gwen also[...]

Here are the full versions of the Phantom variant of Silk #2, taking on Amazing Spider-Man #300 just as they did with Spider-Gwen #1. And the Dynamic Forces version of Spider-Gwen #2 by Jerome Opena.   Here are the full versions of the Phantom variant of Silk #2, taking on Amazing Spider-Man #300 just as they did[...]

Next Wednesday sees the release of the new Bleeding Cool Magazine #15, the Women In Comics issue. And the launch of Suiciders, Orphan Black (which is handy), TMNT Mutanimals, Spider-Gwen, Black Hood and Curb Stomp. And in two weeks The launches of Neverboy, Fly Outbreak, Miami Vice Remix, Citizen Of The Galaxy, Big Man PLans, Descender, All-New Hawkeye Guardians[...]

This weekend… in Mexico City, La Mole Comic Con presented their exclusive variant covers for various comics including Batman #39, Spider-Gwen #1, Amazing Spider-Man #15, the Mexican version of Amazing Spider-Man #6 (which features a reprint of a J Scott Campbell's classic cover) and Deadpool #42. And look, they really presented them! Which, yes, means a 23rd version[...]

the launch of Ei8ht, Mutiversity Mastermen,  Monster Motors, Robert Heinelin's Citizen of The Galaxy, Secret Identities, Sparks Nevada: Marshal On Mars, Marvel Universe Guardians Of The Galaxy, Silk, Pirate Eye, Stray, Plunder, King: Mandrake The Magician, Legenderry: Green Hornet and Pathfinder Origins. And the week after? Suiciders, Orphan Black, TMNT Mutanimals and… Spider-Gwen #1! And the week after? Mister X[...]

Art from Cameron Williams. It's Taylor Swift for Spider-Gwen. Sorry, #taylorswift4spidergwen. "Thwipp It Off"… "Blank Spider"… "I Knew You Were Sinister"… "We Are Never Ever Getting Back In The Same Dimension"… Is Sony and/or Kevin Feige paying attention? It is Valentine's Day 2015 And this is a thing  #taylorswift4spidergwen[...]

But nothing compared to what has happened for Spider-Gwen First appearing in Edge Of Spider-Verse #2, her first appearances have rocketed in value. Edge Of Spider-Verse #2 is $1325 in 9.9 CGC, $300 for the Greg Land 1:25 variant raw and $100 for the standard cover, raw, with multiple sales at that price point. And now a 200,000 selling Spider-Gwen[...]

Peter Tomasi even parodied the trope in the Green Lantern series Blackest Night having Alex DeWitt revived – but still in the refrigerator. And today in the Spider-Woman comic book by Dennis Hopeless and Greg Land, with the newly hot Spider-Gwen character (raw copies of Edge Of Spider-Verse #2 now sellng for $100) coming to terms with the[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And this week, Spider-Gwen takes the top, beating out Star Wars titles, with four covers in the chart, and three in the top five[...]

Isn't that nice? Available from Phantom-listed retailers when the series comes out. And a rather wonderful take on this...  

Conquest Comics in Bayville, New Jersey, my own local comic shop, has an exciting event coming up to celebrate and launch their variant Spider-Gwen cover of issue #1 by Adam Hughes in 3 versions: a black and white, a color, and a hybrid cover, with the latter being the most rare. This is the Conquest Comics[...]

That's a look at J Scott Campbell's exclusive cover from Midtown Comics for Spider-Gwen #1, the adventures of Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman in her own universe, launching next month. You may have seen little snippets earlier… That's a look at J Scott Campbell's exclusive cover from Midtown Comics for Spider-Gwen #1, the adventures[...]

So we'll see a lot of her father, Captain Stacy, and her band The Mary Janes, and we'll also meet a lot of new takes on Marvel heroes and villains." So for those thinking, as Marvel is leading you to believe that the collapse of all realities into the Battleworld of the new Secret Wars is[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And advance reorders for Silk beat out the third print of Star Wars and Spider-Gwen, as well as a lot of love for Mortal X,[...]

We have Spider-Woman. We have Silk. We have Spider-Gwen. We do not have a Spider-Girl ongoing series. But we could On Tuesday, Spider-Girl co-creator Tom DeFalco posted, Attention all SPIDER-GIRL fans, please mark January 21 on your calendars SPIDER-VERSE TEAM-UP #3 goes on sale and features an all-new SPIDER-GIRL story by Ron Frenz, Sal Buscema and me. We want this book[...]

The women of Marvel appear to be selling out. Thor #1, promoted on The View, featuring the first appearance of a new female Thor, is now to go to a fourth printing from Marvel Comics. While Edge Of Spider-Verse #2, featuring he first appearance of the Spider-Gwen character, soon to get her own series, is also going to[...]

And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story. Latour and Rodriguez' first appearance of Spider-Gwen in Edge Of Spider-Verse #2 gets a third printing, as the standard cover for first printing sells for up to $37 on eBay, unslabbed. While Gerard Way's Edge Of Spider-Verse #5[...]

By Brian Goldberg Robbi Rodriguez took the time to answer some questions for me and his fans about his experience at NYCC 2014.  His work on Edge of Spider-Verse #2 with writer Jason Latour has become one of the big key books released in 2014.  He has a very unique sense of style and design that[...]

Spider-Gwen is getting her own series written by Jason LaTour and drawn by Robbi Rodriguez The character has been hugely popular in the month since her debut The news of the series leaked earlier in the weekend so this wasn't a huge shock. This is one of two new female lead Spider-verse titles being announced this[...]

Because, after promises that the alternate universe Gwen Stacy-turned-Spider-Woman would also appear in the new Spider-Woman series, today at the NYCC Marvel Retailer meeting, as well as an Avengers 2 trailer and news about Fantastic Fourever and No More Mutants, they were promised an ongoing Spider-Gwen series But what to call it? Spider-Woman is already[...]