Warning: contains spoilers for Spider-Woman #13!
Jessica Drew has had plenty of time to hone her skills as Spider-Woman, working as both an Avenger and New Avenger in the past, but despite a long history as a superhero, and expert training in combat and espionage, Spider-Woman #13 shows she'd struggle to find a place with Earth's Mightiest Heroes today, all thanks to her incredibly reckless crime-fighting techniques.
Jessica Drew has been through the ringer in recent issues. Having discovered a long-lost brother and niece, Jessica became dependent on an experimental serum that drastically increased her powers while also rendering her unstable, alienating many of her allies. While Jessica has since recovered, her extensive adventures ended up alienating her longtime partner Roger Gocking - formerly the supervillain known as Porcupine - not to mention the residual tension with her best friend Captain Marvel, who she attacked and berated while suffering the serum's effects.
In Spider-Woman #13 from Karla Pacheco, Pere Perez, and Frank D’Armata, Jessica is attacked in her apartment by a mercenary who is searching for a floppy disk containing research carried out by the High Evolutionary. After throwing the hired thief out of her apartment window directly onto a nearby cab, she chases the villain - who is calling herself Fireball - down the crowded city street and onto a tightly packed subway train. That fight ends when a new mercenary, Bruiser, enters the fray, starting a city-wide game of keep-away where both hero and villain overturn street stalls, fight in traffic, and involve an innocent police horse before finally escaping by boat and entering a destructive car chase. One more villain enters the fight, which ends on the wing of a plane after Spider-Woman tampers with their jetpack.
While the Avengers have, in the past, allowed their bigger fights to endanger citizens - most notably in the conclusion of Civil War, where the damage of a superhero brawl convinced Captain America to hand himself in to SHIELD - Jessica's lack of caution is stunning to behold, as she completely ignores the civilians caught in the path of her various battles. What's worse is that the villains aren't even trying to hurt people, just to escape with the High Evolutionary's data - for which it turns out Jessica's brother is the buyer. Despite this, Spider-Woman risks killing Lady Bullseye, saying, "I can survive a fall from this height without a jet pack. Sure hope yours has enough juice for you to survive it," before kicking her from the wing of the plane.
There's no question Jessica is a badass of the highest order, having transformed into something akin to Marvel's next Wolverine in recent stories, but she's absolutely not thinking like an Avenger. Spider-Woman has been through more than most heroes - her original stint on the New Avengers was actually a Skrull impostor who made her world-famous as the face of their invasion - but with new bladed weapons and a reckless disregard both for civilian safety and the survival of her enemies, Jessica Drew has become a loose cannon. As incredibly fun as it is to watch, Jessica is a very different person to her time on the Avengers, and as she sheds friends and allies, it's possible Spider-Woman is becoming a far darker hero than she's ever been before.