LUCK BE THE LADIES!
The most exciting new hero in the Marvel U, JACKPOT, A.K.A. Mary Jane Watson, gets her first action-packed limited series as a super hero alongside the other best female character in comics, BLACK CAT! When someone blackmails Black Cat into a public and blatant crime spree, Jackpot comes to her aid! What classic Spider-Villain is behind the blackmail?! Someone with history with at least one of our titular heroines!
Rated T
The writing I thought was done really well. The conversations flowed well, and nothing felt forced to me. It's how I would imagine MJ and Felicia to interact in real life. I do wish we got to see a little more dialogue between them, showing them truly forming a friendship and not talking just because there's a dangerous situation they have to solve. Read Full Review
Jackpot & Black Cat has the bones to be a solid superhero outing, but it needs to lay additional foundation on the structure of this issue to make it a real winner. Read Full Review
Not as memorable as the best of McKay's work with the characters and the art is a little hit-and-miss, but pleasantly diverting and a perfectly OK start. Benefits greatly from the Felicia/MJ team being one of the few genuinely interesting ideas to come out of superhero comics in the last couple of years, so we'll see how I feel when the inherited momentum wears off, but I'm apt to come back for #2
The story is okay and the pacing and art are both good, but the voice and character work are poor.
I love Black Cat and MJ, but Jackpot shouldn’t be a thing. MJ is powerful in her own right and never needed a power gimmick.
The book is fine, but doesn’t make me care enough about something I never wanted in the first place.
I wasn't incredibly looking forward to this after I felt very "meh" about Bronfman's one-shot for Jackpot. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either. While I would say this is an improvement on that book, this still isn't particularly great. I think this has a solid premise with the Obscura app and everything, but I just wish the writing and/or the execution of it all was more interesting; or just better? Even the art was a little hit-or-miss for me at times. As with any issue I rate in the "yellows", I hope this can improve with the next issue.
It feels like marvel is determined to disrespect the once upon a time great characters and they have successfully made me glad Stan lee is not alive to see this.
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