Spider-Gwen, Issue #17 is the fourth issue in the "Sitting in a Tree" crossover event. It's a little hard to understand, but here goes. Earth-616 is the main Marvel universe, the one with all the mutants, inhumans, superheroes, puns, and stuff. Earth-65 is Spider-Gwen's Earth. Normally, these universes stay somewhat separate, but just to mix it up, they come together now and then. This is one of those times. S.I.L.K. is... oh, what's S.I.L.K. again? Some Spider-organization. I can't keep track. Anyway, they're involved. So's Ms. Marvel, which is kind of cool.
I think the main difference between Spider-Man and Spider-Gwen is that the former doesn't require as much of a backstory understanding, while the latter rewards the experienced Marvel/Spider-Man reader. I've read at most 100 issues involving Spider-Man, and I don't come close to getting all the references. I read a lot of Marvel these days, but I simply didn't grow up with Marvel. For me, in the 1980s, it was all about Batman and the Justice League.
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