the drawing of Night-Spider that I made today (without the background or the dialogues)

Peter arrives at a rooftop at Felicia's call, but finds a big surprise. 🐈‍⬛🕸

fanart I made of Night-Spider 💗 I love this version of the character and I wanted to make this cartoon style drawing

What do you think???

We have spent these months talking, debating or arguing (whatever). Regarding the nature of this mini, everyone has their own ideas...and after finishing it's like....Why, if in the end nothing is answered? The normal thing now would be to talk about being wrong or not about things but.... How exactly are you wrong or right with something that ignores absolutely everything and answers absolutely nothing?

-Felicia's two different attitudes are not explained.

-MJ doesn't ask questions about Felicia's double attitude.

-It is not explained how/when Amelia met Felicia.

-It is not explained what happened with the stolen app, nor with Amelia's revenge against her former boss. Nothing about the ending of number 2.

-It is not explained what happens/happened/will happen with Amelia. We do not see her fleeing, nor detained, nor dead. Just get away from a gunfight.

-There is no conversation about how Felicia feels or if she feels anything about this whole Amelia thing, as if she doesn't exist at all, although she confirms that she doesn't care about her and never tells her "I love you" or "I loved you." But there's also no conversation about the previous tension with MJ or Peter. Just two girls drinking champagne.

The story is simply improvised number by issue without plan or organization. Incomplete, rushed... It's not that it's bad in general but that one can't even say "I was wrong" or "I was right" because there are no answers to anything. Neither right nor wrong, there are simply no answers to anything.

So I get Jackpot and Black Cat digitally and physically…I know, I just want to support Felicia’s book as best I can…anyway, i reviewed last months issue and was disappointed by it. The whole MJ and Felicia talk…the weird overly aggressive preachy tone and the art that made it look even worse, killed my enthusiasm for the mini series. They had subverted expectation to a degree by having Felicia in on the scheme with her girlfriend Amelia aka Bandwidth instead of the expected “Amelia is conning her too”. It was at least interesting.

That combined with Marvel actually giving Felicia a full fledged girlfriend/love interest in current time made the book more interesting, more significant. Yes it was done in the weakest way…off panel but months. They were together months…then issue 3…killed it. What a terrible scene that was. It still bothers me a month later. I can honestly say that it made me really dislike MJ for the first time. Just a cruel speech. Anyway…I talked about that before and don’t want to talk about it again.

Amelia goes after MJ and everyone’s favorite character Paul behind Felicia’s back and forces her to choose, her current love or the woman who just brutally wrecked her current relationship like a wrecking ball….of course Felicia chose MJ, after all the promos imply they’re best friends even though in issue 3, it’s hard to buy and Felicia didn’t seem to by the end. There brief summary done…let’s talk issue 4 aka back to where we were sort of.

Spoiler review, I’ll redact of course. I don’t know if anyone cares about spoilers. If I knew how overall disappointing all of this would be…I wouldn’t care. I know this wasn’t a well written mini series…I’ll talk about MJ later, but it gave Felicia an actual new all her own love interest. Not the one I wanted but it gave her one.

When I review Catwoman I try to avoid spoilers but honestly I’ll just redact this one. Just the same spoiler summary and my thoughts after this point.

Preview showed the fight, preview showed that they were going to go after Bandwidth. The dialogue was off, weirdly banter heavy. More Felicia saying she put herself first, more MJ declaring her wrong…it’s all in the preview and it’s just not well written. They heavy hand foreshadow the end of the issue here.

Paul just happens to have a way to stop Bandwidth. Briefly on Paul…Celeste gives Paul the most character he’s had yet…and he’s will bland and generic. Man bun is just not interesting.

Somehow Felicia gets to the safe house in time. This issue has problems with time…She convinces Amelia that they should go together. The talk they have is…the high point because it gives you at least a little background on Amelia. The conclusion of which is that they’re on the run together…enter Jackpot to say a superhero’s one liner. There’s an interesting panel where you can actually see how this is affecting Felicia. Small digression…I read somewhere on the boards that “this was a con by Felicia” and I’m sorry but that just doesn’t line up with the story. The brief backstory for Amelia isn’t bothered with again. She’s not long for the story.

Anyway, you finally get Felicia and Amelia break up…and it’s still the best writing in the issue. Everything focusing on Felicia’s feelings, her hurt over the relationship ending…is decent, or at least it is relative to the rest….ending with Felicia admitting that their love isn’t enough to survive Amelia’s willingness to kill to get what she wants. Felicia is willing to kill, just not people who don’t actually deserve it…anyway, Paul magically stops Amelia from getting back up, then MJ I guess signs Amelia’s death warrant…like a hero, by leaking that she’s obscura….i’ll talk about MJ at the end.

Owl shows up…all dialogue focused on Black Cat, her relationship with Owl…could have been interesting but too little too late. Generic fight happens. How is a fight where one of the heroes can have any power so numbingly generic?

Black Cat is apparently unable to take out the goons that Owl brought so she has to be saved by the power of friendship. Peter gets a name drop. Guess he’s a raiders of the lost ark fan…Oh, Amelia just vanishes. Just gone off with Paul who also just vanishes. Gone to the island of misfit ex loves for her. Shockingly Felicia and MJ are friends again, somehow. Even more “shocking” they have breakfast together. Felicia donated most of the money but got pastries from France for their breakfast….apparently over nighted. How much of that 10mil did she actually donate? MJ should get a receipt. They highlight the two characters differing points of views, Jackpot is willing to be in the grey, Felicia appreciates that…there’s a shot being taken here I think…anyway, story ends with a “MJ and Black Cat will return” without having to actually say it.

Oh Felicia doesn’t comment on Amelia at all beyond a comment on emotional suffering in a banter-ie way. She’s just gone, served her purpose and poof away. Paul is also gone but who cares about Paul.

I was wondering why there had been no spoilers for this issue and it’s because there is nothing worth spoiling. God that sounds so harsh, I really enjoyed the first two issues overall but it’s just a by the numbers story.

MJ was replaced by stock super hero vigilante number 5. She talked like she was Batman. She said lines like “I just want to make a difference”. She was holier than thou, the good one. She never read like MJ and she doesn’t hear either.

All this series in the end did was say that Black Cat and MJ are friends. Gave Felicia a love interest, took her away. All in service of the title characters being friends even though the mini series didn’t support that friendship all that well.

The art was great. Emilio Laiso for the most part kills it. The last issue is a bit more rushed looking but save the weird double peak collar…his Black Cat is amazing. The art is a saving grace for the book. Laiso won’t be my first pick for the hopefully next solo run for Black Cat but I wouldn’t upset if he was main artist.

I’ve been writing this on and off for hours I think…apparently I had a lot to say. It’s 2:30 am and my sleep schedule is terrible so I’ll make the end thoughts quick.

It wasn’t a terrible issue, it wasn’t a good issue…it was just there. It was generic and disappointing so maybe that’s worse…but issue 3 started that trend. The series gave Felicia her own love interest and they didn’t feel off together. It then dropped the ball on it.

I hope that Felicia gets a new run after this though based on the afterword it doesn’t seem likely. Black Cat deserves better. If she’s going to be a representative for LGBTQ+ then actually use that. Do something with it. They’re certainly putting her on every Pride cover or promotion they can.

I have my hope that MacKay will get her back. I’ll hold onto that.

Please excuse the typos! I promise my reviews aren’t always this long!

You're Peter, and she's the best girlfriend in the world. You tell her, and you give her gifts for the best girlfriend in the world. And since it's her birthday and she's the best girlfriend in the world, for just one night there's carte blanche to do whatever she wants, with no rules. But she can only have one of the three gifts...

-A stuffed animal of Garfield the cat to hug at night. He hates Mondays, we all identify with him.

-A date with Cheetara from Thundercat, all night. Without rules.

-A trip to Egypt with permission to rob the Cairo museum for one night, without the obligation to return anything. And being able to steal only one thing.

Of these 3, which would be Felicia's choice and why?

https://x.com/bishgnuette/status/1803737655899029921

Never sure if this needs a spoiler but preview is up.

It looks fine, nothing amazing and after issue 3 my interest kind of died down a bit. The whole MJ and Felicia “talk” was so badly handled. Anyway, one issue to go. I’d love to see some kind of twist but it’s reading a bit predictable.

Art remains beautiful though.

No jokes. Not necessarily now (or is it?) but maybe tomorrow, at some point... Could it be? Not on MJ's part but on Cat's part. After everything they have experienced together as rivals, going from animosity to tolerance and now friendship, and knowing more or less the real profile of people that Felicia attracts, there is the possibility that there is some kind of consciously or unconsciously repressed attraction for the redhead?

I'm not suggesting anything about a threesome or anything, just what would happen if those feelings were real. What would Felicia do? Can anyone imagine her in love and stable with Peter but confused by feelings for MJ? Would he confess those feelings to MJ? And how would she react? Would they hide this discovery from Peter? Is it in MJ's nature to accept or share those feelings? Would he run away and avoid Felicia out of discomfort, breaking up their friendship? Could Felicia live peacefully with the secret if she never confesses it, confusing both Peter and MJ?

DOES ANYONE believe something like this could really happen? Could Felicia relive the past again from such a radically opposite angle? Because I personally see this as the only thing that could cause problems and conflicts once it has become clear that the relationship between them is solid with or without Peter in the middle and that MJ has given them complete freedom to be together. So without jealousy or envy involved, this alone could cause problems...but could it "really" happen?

Imagine that you are already married...what happens next? She attracts bad luck, he has Parker luck. And in a BlackCat story something ALWAYS goes wrong.

Where would they go on a trip? Paris? Rome? London? Hawaii? And what would happen once there, or in the middle of the road?

Personally, I think Peter would get tickets to Hawaii and Felicia would get tickets to Florida in a lottery prize without both deciding where to go. I think Peter could lose his ticket at the boarding gate of the plane while Felicia enters right in front and then, after separating to search and find the ticket in his pocket, a nervous Peter could take the wrong plane, leaving poor Felicia alone by accident. where, coincidentally, he would meet MJ on the plane. He would end up in Florida and she in Hawaii, where she basically spends half of her honeymoon in the company of MJ and he, desperate to find a plane to Hawaii, ends up involved in a case of jewelry and crocodile smuggling until Felicia and MJ get a guy handsome guy with a helicopter who they then leave stranded to take them to Florida. And Peter rests exhausted in his room while the girls make their fortune at the casino.

This is...believable as a classic Spiderman Story, I think.

I have Marvel Unlimited and read the 2019 run 1-12. I know there's at least 2 annuals and another 2020 run 1-10? But then isn't there some tie ins with King in Black?

What reading order should I do after the 2019 #12?

Currently the kitten has ties to much of the Marvel universe including Cap and Stark, but also with Fury. Technically her constant achievements would allow her to be considered for the team and Peter would also endorse her....but what kind of dynamic could someone so overpowered have with so much charisma, energy and chaos orbiting around her?

If she hesitates to Strange and Stark right under their noses, what if she had to share a panel with Thor, ShelHulk or...omg...JANET!