The Amazing Spider-Man: Edge of Spider-Verse is a collection of five issues about "Spiders" in different universes. "Spider-Man Noir" takes place in 1939, with somewhat limited technology. "Gwen Stacy: Spider Woman" takes place in the current year, only where Peter Parker has died and Gwen Stacy has taken over the "Spider" mantle. "Aaron Aikman: The Spider-Man" is a more tech-heavy Spider-Man where the DNA of the scientist, Aaron Aikman, was re-sequenced with that of a spider. "I Walked With a Spider" is the story of Patton Parnel, who looks just like Peter Parker, but he's a total sociopath. "SP//dr" has young Peni Parker being allowed in the same room with a spider that will bite her and change her into SP//dr. Of course, there are multiple universes, so does that mean there are multiple Penis? Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I bought the Spider-Verse collection in digital format and was pleasantly surprised to see Edge of Spider-Verse in my Comics Bento last month (see https://comicbento.com/ for more details). Of course, the five comics have a continual story of the Spider-people coming together because someone is going through each universe and hunting them. I'm more hyped for this story than I was before I read Edge of Spider-Verse because I got to see the characters, themselves. Spider-Man Noir's best attribute so far is his setting, although he'll probably end up in the Peter Parker Spider-Man universe, but I just don't know. Spider-Gwen appears to be the breakout star of the bunch, and I'm a huge fan of Jason Latour, who wrote the issue. I loved the technology of both Aaron Aikman and SP//dr, and Patton Parnel is downright evil.
Overall, this is a great way to introduce new writers and artists to the Marvel universe. Like most comic book fans, I protest any crossover event while buying issue after issue, book after book, omnibus after omnibus. The reason this collection works is that it gives the impression that the writers and other contributors were given more artistic freedom in creating these five interrelated comics.
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