Spider Woman Battle of the Origins: pt 3 all the gross triggery stuff

[ozaline]

Trigger Warning Abelism, sexual, and romantic acts peformed under false pretenses, and possibly gore (though mild).

When last we left Jessica Drew, she had just been ordered onto a mission to save her lover, and fellow Hydra Agent, Jared, from SHIELD's Monaco base, and assassinate Nick Fury. We join her now already in battle against Fury himself when things start to go against her.


Three pages from Marvel Spotlight #32 (which brings me up to my 1/3rd quota for that comic over the past three posts), 7 1/2 of Origin #3, 7 1/2 of Origin #4)





Jessica takes aim at Fury with her Venom blast, when the master spy throws Jared in between them.







Vermis makes a deal to reveal Jessica's origins if she lets him escape. He tells her the truncated facts as he is aware of them (That she's an evolved Spider), and she is so stunned he is able to gas her. She chases after him and causes his escape plane to crash.

Now for the remake.







After this, and a revelation about her Parents... Jessica flees SHIELD and manages to go off the grid and hide from both Hydra and SHIELD for two years, but eventually they find her in London.






She manages to overcome, Jared, the Task Master, and the rest of the Hydra Goons brought against her.








Jessica at first refuses Fury's offer of a job... She wants to live her own life, and make something out of her parent's death. But Fury responds, "who told you your parents are dead?"





Jessica heads to her Mom's location, but finds she is beaten to the punch by Hydra.





From her mother's papers she learns about something called Project Athena. She again goes off the grid to research this on her own.







Jessica escapes in a small motor boat as Vermais' ship explodes.

Jessica follows the leads she's found to another Hydra base, where she finds her father. Which we'll see after a short intermission featuring the ever loving Thing and Hydra's attempt to replace Spider Woman.

Comments

[cainofdreaming]

Okay, I don't really like Bendis' dialogue but that Captain America comment made me guffaw.

[icon_uk]

I sort of didn't get it because I'd have thought not allowing the wearing of a HYDRA operatives costume would be sensible in a flying aircraft carrier full of highly trained soldliers all dedicated to killing HYDRA operatives.

[cainofdreaming]

It's individualized costume, specific only to her, so I don't think it is that big a problem. If it was green with yellow suspenders... well, that would be another case.

[icon_uk]

That would indeed have made it worse, but HYDRA has a lot of operatives in individualised costumes, and descriptions of them would have been circulated amongst SHIELD staff.

[ozaline]

Well she went on precisely one mission in that outfit for Hydra... spent two years where SHIELD was indeed looking for her but as a recruit rather than as an enemy... and she modified the costume, I think she's okay.

SHIELD was also keeping tabs on her in the original continuity, but again even when she was working for HYDRA in her second appearance they already figured out it was not her doing.... More on that soon.

[miramira]

I take back what I said about the modern version's take on what happened to Mom being better.

On a totally unrelated note, I kind of love how the original has Jessica scream out "Count Otto Vermis!" in rage. Her whole life's been upended, but that's no reason not to give the guy his proper title, y'know?