Jessica Drew ain’t letting a little thing like an emergency C-section in a space station hospital slow her down.
Shown as being well into her third trimester after the series’ post-hiatus reboot, last week’s Spider-Woman #4 finally saw the lead character become a mom. It was a pretty dramatic childbirth, coming in the middle of being chased by squads of alien Skrull soldiers determined to kill Spider-Woman.
The tense chase-scene backdrop made the page where Jessica meets her newborn especially beautiful. Gone are all the sound effects and crazy angles of the preceding pages.
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The tonal switch-up is a sharp metaphor for how things change when you become a parent: one day, life is all funny/dramatic hijinx, and the next you’re responsible for a tiny human being that you would die for, as seen in the image at the very top. Throughout all of its first storyline, Spider-Woman feels like a book that’s not just presenting a wooden Strong Female Character archetype. This issue feels like the apotheosis of the charms that make this series such a standout.
