WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Spider-Woman #7 by Karla Pacheco, Pere Perez, Frank D'Amrata, and VC's Travis Lanham, on sale now.

Jessica Drew's life has been unraveling at an astonishing pace, with her personal and professional lives bleeding together in some truly shocking ways. While it might seem like the world revolves around her, it's actually come to a near standstill entirely with the arrival of Marvel's King in Black. Now that the dark god of the symbiotes is upon the world, his living darkness is raining down on everyone, regardless of their current preoccupations. Jess isn't going to let an evil from before time keep her down, though, not as long as she has friends by her side who know the same playbooks she does.

After uncovering a mad conspiracy involving her mother, a clone of her mother, her worst enemy, and a serum that's given her supercharged powers at the expense of her sanity, Jessica is walking a razor's edge and barely holding on. Her hunt for the High Evolutionary has brought her seemingly to the middle of nowhere, which actually happens to be just outside the East Harlem office of Linda Carter aka the Night Nurse. The whole city, not to mention the planet, has been transformed by Knull's living darkness, and the city's heroes are gathered together to figure out how to fight the King in Black. Their conversation is cut short by the arrival of one of Knull's symbiote dragons, an imposing threat to be sure, but one that provides Jessica with some much-needed catharsis in the form of incredible violence.

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Jessica gets another dose of the Marchand Serum from Night Nurse, who tells her friend that she wouldn't give it to her under any other circumstances. Of course, things went overboard a while ago, and that kind of extreme action is just how Jessica is going to respond. After pumping herself full of the serum, she asks Luke Cage how his Fastball Special is.

Grabbing her by the back of her suit and hurling her through the air, Luke claims that his iteration of the classic X-Men technique is alright, but his form and efficiency tell a different story. Jess lands right in the middle of the dragon's neck, and her toxic blood turns the symbiote away from bonding to her while she blasts it repeatedly in the back of the head at point-blank range, downing the mighty beast.

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The Fastball Special might be the first instance of what's come to be known as "mutant technology," but Spider-Woman and Luke Cage just offered up a brutal reminder that you don't need to be a mutant to throw your friend at someone. While Colossus and Wolverine might have originated and popularized the technique, there's something to be said for innovation, and the version offered up in the pages of Spider-Woman #7 is an instant classic. Maybe it's the choice of an underhand toss, maybe it's the sheer rage that Jessica exudes as she hurtles towards her target, or maybe it's the fact that she murders a dragon with her bare hands until it is well past dead. Yeah, it's probably that last one.

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