Spider-Gwen: Smash #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeSpider-Gwen: Smash #2 is the first issue to give Earth-65's Pixie (Megan Gwynn) a physical appearance on the page, expanding the multiverse roster of mutant variants that writer Melissa Flores was systematically building across the four-part limited series. The issue deepens the central tension between Gwen's dual life as a drummer and a covert superhero bodyguard — a character struggle that Flores publicly described as the emotional core of the whole series — while advancing the Earth-65 Bruce Banner as a credible, science-horror antagonist. Taken in sequence, the Smash arc as a whole served as a deliberate narrative runway for Gwen's permanent departure from Earth-65 to Earth-616, making each issue, including this one, a chapter in one of the more purposeful status-quo transitions in recent Spider-Verse publishing.
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Spider-Gwen: Smash was announced at San Diego Comic-Con 2023 and is a four-issue limited series written by Melissa Flores (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Women of Marvel) with art by Enid Balám (Kate Bishop: Hawkeye), following the prior Shadow Clones limited series by Emily Kim and Kei Zama. Flores discussed the series' thematic premise — Gwen's alienation in her own home dimension — at LA Comic Con before the book launched. Issue #2 shipped January 10, 2024, with a March 2024 cover date, inked by Elisabetta D'Amico, colored by Fer Sifuentes, lettered by VC's Ariana Maher, and edited by Ellie Pyle, with a cover and a 1:100 virgin variant both by series cover artist David Nakayama, plus a 1:25 variant by Elizabeth Torque.
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- First physical appearance of Earth-65's Pixie (Megan Gwynn), the half-mutant/half-fairy bassist of Dazzler's band the Uncut Gems, who was mentioned but not seen in issue #1.
- Written by Melissa Flores with interior art by Enid Balám; cover by David Nakayama. Released January 10, 2024 (cover date March 2024).
- The issue is the second chapter of a four-issue limited series; the story moves the tour from New York to Chicago, with Gwen protecting Dazzler while managing her fractured friendship with Mary Jane Watson.
- Earth-65's Bruce Banner — a mad scientist and stalker rather than an accidental gamma hero — continues his campaign against Dazzler, and the Hulk returns with an unnamed accomplice, escalating the threat introduced in issue #1.
- The Hulk of Earth-65 is eventually revealed across the series to be a brainwashed Rick Jones, whose Earth-65 first appearance was in Smash #1; issue #2 continues to develop his role as Banner's weapon.
- Earth-65's Natasha Romanoff, who debuted in Smash #1, continues her arc as the covert handler who engineered the entire tour as a trap to expose whoever is targeting Dazzler — a spy-thriller layer unusual for a Ghost-Spider book.
- The series as a whole, beginning with this issue's escalation, was designed by Flores to set the stage for Gwen's eventual permanent relocation from Earth-65 to Earth-616, which occurred in the subsequent ongoing series Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider (April 2024).
- Variant covers for issue #2 include a 1:25 ratio variant by Elizabeth Torque and a 1:100 virgin variant by David Nakayama.
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Reprinted in Spider-Gwen: Smash #[nn] (2024)
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