Books like Amazing Spider-Girl, Volume 4: Brand New May

This book collects Issues #19-24 of the Amazing Spider-girl. Issue #19 is actually a fantastic story that features Spider-girl (May Parker) being baited into battle by Araña. The Spider-girl series is set in the MC2 universe (an alternate universe to the regular Marvel universe). In the mainstream universe Araña would become Spider-girl, so we have a meeting of the two that's quite satisfying to watch. The issue also offers some key insights to May's character as well as her admiration of her father. In her mind, not only was Araña ripping off her dad, so was every one who claimed to be Spider-woman. Now May is not necessarily right, but that she thinks that says a lot about her. And when Araña badmouths her dad, May's reaction is classic. Issues 20-24 actually care through several plots. On May's personal side, she's trying to hold a relationship with Gene Thompson. At the same time, an anti-mutant hate group is organizing at May's school while a young scared mutant named Sara is being recruited by Magneta, the Mistress of magnetism to join an evil anti-human mutant group. Finally, the beginning of May's clone saga.The boyfriend story was at times annoying because the relationship was clearly not making May happy and putting demands on her time that she couldn't really manage, but I think that may have been the point. Certainly, there are teenage girls who have invested too much in High School relationships. I particularly liked the point that May's friend Davida made about May trying to seem like an ordinary high school student. The story worked on that level as a moral lesson.The mutant story had its points, but I have to say that trudging up a younger female version of Magneto for the leader was lazy. The ultimate story is a battle for Sarah's future and who she's going to be and May makes a great point of that in Issue #24.The original clone saga in the 1970s was a solid storyline for the Amazing Spider-man. In the 1990s, it became not only a debacle but not a quagmire. May's version begins promisingly enough and ends on a note that will leave you running to buy the next trade.At the end of the day, this all works very well. You have a character who is a great role model and several complex stories with enough variety to keep them interesting. This is just another classic Spider-girl collection.