Finished reading Spider-Woman: New Duds, after tieing into the Spider-Verse event writer Dennis Hopeless continues the series by giving Jessica Drew a new status quo away from the Avengers along with a new costume as well. The book opens up with Spider-Woman stopping what looks to be a super villain mugging only for it to turn out to be a police exercise that she was unaware of due to not being updated by Steve Rogers after leaving the Avengers. After spending the night in a cell reporter Ben Urich meets with her as the police let Jess go asking her to look over a folder he has about the families of super villains going missing. Jess reluctantly takes the case when she sees Porcupine robbing a bank and says that he's doing because he's getting blackmailed by someone who has his daughter. The next story has Jess going on a road trip across America with Ben and Porcupine who hopes to turn over a new leaf on life after seeing how the consequences of being a super villain is affecting his family. The group eventually find themselves in Dodge City, Kansas when Roger gets some cowboy merchandise after reminiscing about watching westerns as a kind. Things take a turn for the worse when the townsfolk attack the group with Roger being shot with a shotgun and Jess waking up in a slaughterhouse looking to be the next on the cutting board. Overall this was a good book as writer Dennis Hopeless scales back Spider-Woman's world as she takes more street level criminals rather than the large alien treats as an Avenger which allows for more personal story's with the supporting cast and villains. Porcupine's role in the book is great as it works extremely well for the story as the book shows of how the lower level super villain's families are affected by their crimes. The art by Javier Rodriguez is stunning as it captures the tone of the book and the different settings thanks to the layout of the book and colour pallet that' use. While Natacha Bustos' artwork brings a more flashback feel to the ending of the final story as helps to show how Spider-Woman rejoins the Avengers during the events of Marvel's Time Runs Out story arc. 7/10.
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