Anya wasn't really adjusting well to the superhero life. Web Corps had needed to protect a corrupt judge but their attempts proved futile and he was killed while Anya's partner Miguel was gravely injured with the attacker threatening to come after anyone close to her. Unfortunately for Anya the attacker was a new transfer student to her school, an Egyptian boy named Jon Kasiya who moonlighted as the assassin Amun. Even worse, her best friend Lynn instantly got the hots for him while he in turn quickly learned that Anya and Araña were one and the same. But a chance meeting with Spider-Man seemed to put things in perspective and give her the course correction she needed.Today will be Araña #5-8.Previous >>154357690
>>154375550DSL’s
Issue 6
Issue 7
Maybe I'm dumb but Anya's background is just kind of confusing to me. It originally just seemed to be implied she was hispanic and raised in America. Now she was actually Mexican and came to America. Then I think it's said she was born in America, spent part of her childhood in Mexico, then came back to America after her mother died. Then later on she's said to be Puerto Rican and I think that's fixed by making her dad Puerto Rican and mother Mexican.
Issue 8
Oh, of course Miguel was there the whole time and knew her as a kid. Yeah, yet another example of how all of they were completely winging it since that obviously wasn't the case when they first met.
That does it for today. Next time we'll finish off this series with Araña #9-12 plus Spider-Man/Araña: The Hunter Revealed.And thankfully too, I admit. This is a semi-comprehensive exploration of a certain generation of Marvel characters so I had to include it but Avery is not a good writer and I'm about ready to move onto something better.
>>154375399News to me.
>>154377913?
I do think it's kind of hard to talk about this series because it's all over the place. The stuff Avery is the best at is the more grounded stuff. Usually you'd want to a superhero book set in high school to have the school as flavor for the superheroics or the greater story but here it's flipped. The stuff focused on Anya and Lynn and Amun is the best part of the series while the Spiders vs. Wasps stuff is the worst and frankly makes little to no sense because Avery has as much clue about it as the reader which is bad when she's the one writing it. Amun could be a lot worse as a character and the actual interesting stuff, or at least parts that has potential, is the whole bit of Anya and her archenemy sharing a class and having to coexist because of Anya's friend having a crush on him.That's a perfectly interesting enough scenario with characters who all have good chemistry with each other. I want to read about THAT with some one off villains thrown in (the Chinese lady didn't need to be connected to the Wasps at all really), not all of the nonsensical and vague mumbo jumbo abou spiders and wasps and what the wasps are doing. Not the uninteresting and not particularly likable Webcorps assholes. I like her dad and want to see more of him. But the stuff in this book that Avery is actually good at she drops and puts on the backburner in favor of devoting so much time to the absolute worst parts of the book, the stuff that is neither interesting nor that she's any good at writing.
>>154380413Would having a certain person being tricked into fighting for them improve the Wasps?
>>154380778I honestly don't know. The problem is that the totem and magic stuff in general is bad so tying it so hard into that is ultimately harmful I think.
>>154381021yep
