Comic Info
Comic Name: Web-Warriors/Amazing Spider-Man (Volume 3)
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Writer: Mike Costa/Robbie Thompson
Artist: David Baldeon/Denis Medri
# of Issues: 6
Release Date: 2016
Web-Warriors #1 Variant
Reprints Amazing Spider-Man (3) #1 and Web-Warriors #1-5 (December 2015-May 2016). The Web-Warriors have a mission to protect the Spider-Verse. When they discover a cadre of Electros have also discovered the Spider-Verse and are secretly gaining powers, the Web-Warriors are in for the fight of their lives. Cut off from the web, the Web-Warriors are scrambling for a means to stop the Electros and their leader the Battery which controls them all!
Written by Mike Costa with additional writing by Robbie Thompson, Web-Warriors; Protectors of the Spider-Verse Volume 1: Electroverse is a Marvel Comics series which spun out of the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse crossover event. The series features art by David Baldeon and Denis Medri and also contains the Web-Warriors’ first appearance in Amazing Spider-Man (3) #1 (December 2015) which was also reprinted in Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide—Volume 1.
I bought the first issue of Web-Warriors but skipped it when it continued. The fantastic Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse renewed my interest in the series and had me going back to read the issues I missed (including the Spider-Verse storyline). While the Spider-Verse movie was a lot of fun, Web-Warriors seems like it misses the mark at points.
Web-Warriors #3 Variant
The story reels in a lot of fun characters. I always felt like Anya got a raw deal in her own series so it is nice to see her taking a center stage here. Additionally, I enjoyed the few appearances of Spider-Man Noir in his various surfacing including video games…plus, adding Spider-Gwen and an animated Spider-Pig is automatically more fun. While the concept is just, the execution leaves something to be desired.
The story gets a bit bogged down in techno-garble. I didn’t read the Spider-Verse and the basic set-up is a bit hard to follow with Web-Warriors based on Earth-001. The whole means of travelling between the worlds and the problems the Web-Warriors have when they can’t link mean little to me and I don’t know that Costa did the best job creating the set-up for those who were “jumping on”.
Web-Warriors just isn’t quite there. I like what it is trying, and I like the characters, but it just needs that extra push to make it good. With the dangerous and deadly world of comic book publishing, if a series can’t grab on quickly, it is doomed (heck, it is sometimes doomed if it does grab quickly). Web-Warriors feels like it faces the same fate. Web-Warriors: Protectors of the Spider-Verse 1: Electroverse is followed by Web-Warriors: Protectors of the Spider-Verse 2: Spiders Vs.
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