Jonathan Luna

The second TPB in the Alex and Ada series, it picks up where the first TPB left off. Ada has 'found herself', and so a lot of this TPB concerns Alex and Ada trying to navigate Ada's new found self. That definitely winds up being super, super complicated needless to say.

I am still really like the story. The back and forth seems organic, and nothing seems forced too, which is always nice in comics or novels. (I also totally agree with Ada about Oranges... ewww.) I also really like how the show more creators don't feel the need to fill all the pages with dialogue bubbles. Some of the pages were just art, it was art that told the story, but it was only the art. And I liked those pages just as much as the pages with dialogue, some I liked even more.

I received my copy of this book from Image Comics in exchange for a fair and honest review. show less

Killing it with graphic novels lately. This had been on my TBR forever, and I happened to pick it up on my birthday. It's a fantastic foundation for what I hope will be an exciting rest of the trilogy. The art is spare and elegant, the prose is clear, and the idea itself is great: what if you received a robot whose every goal was to conform to your wishes, but there was a way to make her sentient?

Spider-Woman is a character that I have always thought didn't get enough attention, so I was thrilled to see this collection written by Bendis, who is respected as one of the best in the comics world. This is Jessica Drew's origin story, detailing her birth with special abilities and the events leading up to this, her childhood ripped away by Hydra, and her work alongside S.H.I.E.L.D. before becoming a hero in her own right. This is is delving into Drew's origin more deeply than I have seen show more anywhere up until this point.

Beyond that, though, this is introducing us to Jessica Drew as a character in ways that we haven't seen before. I feel like I knew the character much more deeply than from previous readings, as we see how Jessica is working through the events of her life, as well as seeing those events through the eyes of characters with whom we're already familiar (such as Nick Fury).

This collects 5 issues, and is a quick read, but it's absolutely the best origin account for Spider-Woman that I've read. The art is equally impressive, with clean lines and a modern graphical depth that makes for an impressive comic.

If you've ever been interested in Spider-Woman, and especially if you're a fan of Bendis, I highly recommend this collection. show less

I enjoyed this book, but the male lead is so passive and pathetic most of the time that it is hard to root for him. Though his personality does help explain how he copes with events near the story's end. He's pretty used to putting his head down and moping his way through the bigger things happening around him. I agree with other reviewers here on the art: the backgrounds were pretty sterile and the use of repeating static panels got tiresome by the end of the book. I give this book a show more three-star rating based purely on the charms of Ada the android. show less