 Thanks for checking out the second episode of should you read and this one is for should you read spider-gwen? Okay, I got into this Based off of my main mainly my interest in the costume for spider-gwen It's a phenomenal costume if you've seen it the design that went into that was excellent It's like a nice like white costume with like black highlights to show The spider webbing on it and then it's got like some pink in certain key areas and a hood to it And there's a little bit of like pink inside the hood with like some blue webbing in there Super cool design and that's kind of what drew me in. I also heard a lot of people saying the spider-gwen was really cool So I want to check it out read it on comic psychology Through their unlimited service and I got through two volumes because two volumes is what was available So I think that ended up being something like eight total issues something like that And obviously that's through Marvel Marvel does spider-gwen as most people would assume So I've actually figured out through reading a bunch of comics through comics allergy unlimited that I'm not the biggest Marvel fan. I'm more of like Well, let me say I usually when you talk to like comic people They'll kind of you know, put you in a category and say, oh, you're more into Marvel comics or you're more a DC type person or you're more of this that whatever I'm more of an image comic type person I found because the majority of the image stuff that I found is what I like the most Not say that I don't like other stuff I do So that said going back to the spider-gwen, which is why we're here. Should you read spider-gwen? I would say it depends It is the story is interesting the story is Solid and it was enough to keep me reading through the two volumes because it kept me interested I really did want to know what was going on. I didn't I Didn't feel fully connected to it as a story, but I think part of that is well two things one There was a lot of revamping of characters. So if you're already familiar with Marvel characters Very different, you know, like certain characters change genders You know, there's some female characters that were male That's not that big of a deal as from that perspective But it kind of like when you already know something it kind of like throws you off at first and you're like, oh, okay So you kind of have to re-figure out who these characters are not only that but there's some sort of Storyline that that took us to spider-gwen where it's kind of like alternate realities So some characters show up as they originally were But they are different like their role is different Like some people are like good guys when they used to be bad guys and some guys are bad guys And they used to be good guys So when you see these new character when the you see these old characters that you know about You kind of don't know what their role is yet And sometimes if you don't know that going into it for me It was kind of like oh this this person's bad in this seems kind of weird to me or this person's good That's weird. So I had a hard time getting over the hump of that through the first volume Once I had that taken care of in the second volume What really started to get me was it's very much geared towards like a teen audience Which I understand, you know, it's a new character It's you know going towards a new generation Because comic books need to continue to sell comics and they have to invest in their younger demographics to make sure that they can You know maintain So I understand that it's it's more towards a young base But that's not to say that people who are in their older ages like myself I'm you know approaching 40 not to say that someone like me can't enjoy it. And like I said, I did enjoy it Through the first two volumes. I just don't think I enjoyed it enough to purchase That was kind of my thing because after the first two volumes with Comicsology if you're doing the unlimited then you would have to purchase after that It wasn't enough for me to want to purchase it so the combination for me of a lot of the characters being a little and You know it being very much geared towards teenagers Kind of maybe like I don't need to buy this. I don't need to continue going But I can see where a lot of people would like this The other thing for me is the art isn't at the caliber that I would want for something That's Marvel I usually think about Marvel and I think about really really good artwork and the artwork is a little more rough style I know that's done intentionally sometimes But for me, it didn't come off all that great was with what spider-goin is I wanted to see it drawn a lot cleaner a lot more vibrant and I guess not vibrant as far as like colors go, but like Significantly more defined. I feel like a lot of stuff is a little more blurred with the art artwork And I just wanted it more like crisp and clean and like just super nice looking and it wasn't super nice looking It's just kind of like a little tad more minimalistic in a sense. So Not a big, you know, I wasn't a huge fan of it I won't be going back to it, but anyway that said because I want to keep these things relatively short Should you read spider-goin? Yes, if you like what you heard in this video, I was kind of in the middle ish Overall, I think it's decent if you can get past the stuff that I was kind of having a little bit of trouble with But on the comic xology five-star scale. I gave it three stars I think it's good for what it is and good for who it's aimed at I just can't I just don't want to continue with it The character is very cool and how the character came up and all that so if it was written a little more mature I would be way more interested and I'd probably continue to read it, but that's not what it is and that's okay So anyway, hopefully this helped people out if you have any recommendations for me You want to see me do any videos for specific comics? Let me know if you want to see me do it for any shows movies stuff like that we can do that too email me at brutal battle podcast at gmail.com and Brutal is B. R. E. W. T. A. L. So brutal battle podcast at gmail.com and until next time keep it brutal