Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz and Others. Marvel, digest, 112pp.

Essential reading for anyone who’s been following Spider-Girl, as many of the mysteries set up in that title are cleared up in the two mini-series collected here. Unlike the other Spider-Girl Presents books – Juggernaut Jr, Avengers Next and Fantastic Five – which were M2 titles that ran in parallel to Spider-Girl, these are true spin-offs. The stories, to be honest, are nothing spectacular, and they lack the soap-opera elements that make Spider-Girl such an addictive read, but the various revelations about the origins of the Buzz and Darkdevil are quite eye-opening. – SWT

Originally published in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction #22.