Spider-Girl #5 // Review
Maka is working with Spider-Man. The Spider-Man. The original. (There was a time in not to recent past where one didn't have to necessarily make it that distinction. But there are a lot of wall crawlers in Marvel Manhattan now.) Maka’s working with her hero, but she’s going to have to leave him beausee she’s got something that she has to do in Spider-Girl #5. Writer Torunn Grønbekk continues an appealing adventure with a young superhero kid i another issue brough to page and panel by the art team of Andre Risso and Diogenes Neves. Color comes to the page courtesy of Java Tartaglia.
There's a drone. It's flying around. And it's dangerous. It's basically a flying tank. Spider-Man tells.Spider-Girl that it would be easier to take down the person who is controlling the drone. Thankfully,Spider-Girl knows who that is. The bad news is that tracking him down is going to take her away from Spider-Man and into deeper danger than she would be in while in the presece of someone with the kind of experience Spider-Man has. Still--if she’s going to be able to save lives, she’s going to have to strike it out on her own while SPider-Man deals with the immediate threat on the ground.
Gronbekk has a solid sense of execution with respect to dialogue. Maka comes across as a strikingly, witty little girl who nevertheless sounds exactly like a little girl would sound. That's a very difficult balance to manage. And it's not always perfect. But it's perfect enough that it feels distinctly unlike anything else on the counter rack today. All too often writers get the distinct sound of a child's dialogue completely off.Gronbekk nails it in a story that moves along very quickly with some very clever twists and turns in the process.
The art team moves quite efficiently with the script. Once again,Maka looks remarkably expressive in a mask that doesn't allow for a whole lot of facial expression. The eyes show everything. And her body language it shows everything else. It's a very sharp and witty sort of execution. Everything seemed to flow on the page quite well. And it all feels very, very distinct. This is particularly well executed when both.Ditko-masked spider-people are on the page at the same time. They managed to look distinctly different with very well defined personalities on the page.
Gronbekk throws another angle into things with respect to the progression of Maka’s life at issue’s end. There are a few moments who leading into that which suggest a progression that could be very interesting depending onGronbekk decides to define things between Maka and her parents. It's kind of a critical period for the series as the initial reality of what's going on fades out into the background. Once again.Gronbekk has a real potential for being able to explore a long-term character development with.Maka that could be really interesting as she progresses into older adolescence.
