Writer: Tom DeFalco Artists: Pat Olliffe (p), Livesay (i)
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Plot: Spider-Girl and Spider-Man get into a fight while Mayday laments over the loss of her friendships and all of her woes.
"Nobody is going to care about a Spider-Girl when they can have the real deal." --Ralphie
My sentiments exactly.
The only reason I picked up this title was because of the buzz surrounding its cancellation and cancelled cancellation. I wanted to see what that buzz was all about. Pretty much I'm still at a loss to see its appeal. This book isn't so much as awful but pointless. It perpetuates a storytelling style from the 70s and 80s that has grown as tired and wasteful as if every writer were to suddenly begin writing in the overly verbose, stilted speech of Stan Lee.
Spider-Girl is a soap opera, and if I wanted a soap opera I'd turn on The Young And The Restless or The Bold And The Beautiful or any of the other interchangable names of this febrile prolefeed for welfare recipients and housewives.
If we were still suffering under the boot heel of terrible stories and plot devices of Howard Mackie and John Byrne, I might see the appeal of a title such as Spider-Girl, but why would I want to pick up the tales set in an alternate future, featuring a heroine wearing Ben Reilly's costume, and without super powers, when I can read the amazing and real Spider-Man stories from JMS and Paul Jenkins in Amazing Spider-Man and Peter Parker: Spider-Man? It just doesn't make sense.
Spider-Girl also features some of the most simplistic art from Olliffe and Livesay and it just makes me wonder why anyone else would really want to read this or how anyone would want to save it from cancellation.
